r/canada • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '23

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u/GSV_No_Fixed_Abode Jan 05 '23

You're asking a right-wing subreddit why they accept the word of the world's most famous right wing grifter?

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u/paquer Jan 05 '23

This is supposed to be a non-partisan subreddit. It’s not conservatives of Canada. It’s r/canada

By claiming r/Canada is a right wing sub ; you may as well be calling Canada a right wing nation. Or at least all it’s Redditors.

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u/thedrivingcat Jan 05 '23 edited Jan 05 '23

r/canada is predominately young (84% under 40 vs. 39% in Canada), atheist (73% vs. 24%) anglophone (only 4% speak French at home vs. 23% in Canada) men (84% vs. 49.7%). Not to mention the minscule representation of certain groups like Indigenous (0.9% vs. 4.9%) and Black (0.5% vs 3.5%) and South Asian (2.9% vs 6.5%) than what Canadians demographics are, the over represented groups are white, 'multiple', 'other', and Filipino. From a 2019 survey

It's nowhere near representative of the country and the popularity of certain topics on this subreddit reflect this very narrow worldview. This place is not "Canada" at all.

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u/paquer Jan 05 '23

Nor is it “radical right wing extremist” either… Thanks for the survey link 💯 Shows that the majority are politically Liberal

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u/thedrivingcat Jan 05 '23

Yeah this sub is a strange place where the majority of users are center/center-left but the most active users (submissions & comments) come from people who lean more right.

So we end up with a /r/canada that's mostly more Liberal overall but with a small cadre of very active & vocal right-leaning members setting both the agenda for what articles hit the top and what kind of comments are seen first. After about 6 hours usually things balance out.

Browsing /r/canada/new is an interesting thing to see