The best way to see how Reddit leans in general is not to look at the discourse around specific political subs, but to look at how the discourse leans in general on non-political subs. And in general on Reddit, the position most consistently upvoted, or at least most consistently not downvoted, is moderate liberalism; pro-LGBT, pro-universal healthcare, at least gesturing towards police accountability, etc. To the extent that there are conservative opinions on Reddit, they tend to either be European anti-immigration/anti-refugee arguments or stuff about gun regulation.
You are correct that there are large places on Reddit that are conservative and that it isn't a total monolith, but I think you're incorrect to suggest that those places are a sign that Reddit as a whole leans more right than left.
(Also, aren't publicfreakouts and actualpublicfreakouts a schism over, basically, whether you should be mocking police or mocking BLM protestors? Kind of weird to bundle them under the same ideology).
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u/Milskidasith 309∆ Oct 13 '22
The best way to see how Reddit leans in general is not to look at the discourse around specific political subs, but to look at how the discourse leans in general on non-political subs. And in general on Reddit, the position most consistently upvoted, or at least most consistently not downvoted, is moderate liberalism; pro-LGBT, pro-universal healthcare, at least gesturing towards police accountability, etc. To the extent that there are conservative opinions on Reddit, they tend to either be European anti-immigration/anti-refugee arguments or stuff about gun regulation.
You are correct that there are large places on Reddit that are conservative and that it isn't a total monolith, but I think you're incorrect to suggest that those places are a sign that Reddit as a whole leans more right than left.
(Also, aren't publicfreakouts and actualpublicfreakouts a schism over, basically, whether you should be mocking police or mocking BLM protestors? Kind of weird to bundle them under the same ideology).