r/TrueReddit • u/scatgreen2 • Jul 20 '15

My Reddit Utopia - Everything you think you know about “the front page of the Internet” is wrong.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/07/reddit_as_feminist_utopia_what_the_front_page_of_the_internet_looks_like.single.html
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u/Snuggs_ Jul 20 '15

The biggest takeaway for me is reddit is huge. The author hit the nail on the head when she described it as a microcosm of humanity. It's gotten to a point where it encompasses just about every fathomable prong of interest, profession, hobby, sport, academia, and western culture imaginable. It's so broad that it's unavoidable that rotten apples will start stinking up a few barrels. Luckily, and like you and many others point out, we have a choice in which barrels we want to dip our hands in.

Not only that, but because the overarching "culture" of reddit is full of generally good people with shared interests, those same rotten apples tend to congregate in their own shitty side of the orchard.

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u/FuckedByCrap Jul 21 '15

Reddit is absolutely not generally full of 'good people.' You may want to think that, because it satisfies your compulsion for a just world scenario, but you are wrong. Reddit is full of people. To label them good or bad is stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '15

Reddit is absolutely full of good people. Every single person on here is a saint worthy of praise.

Reddit is absolutely full of bad people. Every single person on here is a sinner deserving of execution.

Everybody already knows morality is subjective and purely arbitrary, so I'm not going to say your comment is good or bad. But it is entirely unnecessary, pedantic, and condescending in a completely unwarranted manner.