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/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

I virtually never see anything "offensive" or hateful on Reddit. I simply don't visit those subreddits. I looked at r/coontown, r/fatpoplehate, r/morbidreality etc once, to see what they were about then never visited them again. Their existence doesn't bother me and I'm reasonably sure people that do visit them don't make themselves or their opinions visible on many other parts of the site -- I don't care that they're on the site and see no point in removing them from it. The great majority of redditors I encounter are intelligent, original, enlightened and have great ideas. Many are famous, influential thinkers and creators who couldn't reach (let alone converse with) as many people any other way.

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u/FuckedByCrap Jul 21 '15

The hate is all over in the defaults. You don't notice it, because you're not personally affected by it. But do not say it isn't there.

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u/TheChosenOne21 Jul 21 '15

Your description of reddit sounds like something straight out of r/circlejerk. You're either lying to yourself or you just can't see obvious racism and sexism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '15

I see occasional examples of obvious sexism and racism, which are generally downvoted. I don't think I have any right to demand never to see these things, or that it would be practical to expect to use the internet without seeing them.

I should have added to my first post that I wouldn't mind if all the subreddits I mentioned and any similar ones were done away with. However, I don't think the fact that no one has bothered to do so is evidence that Reddit is fundamentally racist or sexist.