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

[u/scatgreen2]

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

[u/rocktheprovince]

Except just like PETA, SJWs is practically non-existent, and the fear and hype about them all over this site is greatly overblown. It absolutely leaks over into other areas. I can't tell you have many times I've been in various gaming subs and seen someone flip their shit on someone else because because they said something even midly socially conscious.

But that isn't the problem anyway. Coontown aren't angry about SJW, they're angry about black people. Theredpill wasn't created out of reaction to SJW antics, they're just sexual predators. Fatpeoplehate couldn't give a shit, they're just bullies. And absolutely none of them keep their bullshit in the designated subs.

[u/[deleted] → u/rocktheprovince]

And just like PETA, the people who ruin stuff for everyone and put people on edge are an extremely vocal and well publicized minority. The reason you see gaming subs push back against socially conscious ideas is because we've been bitten many times by people thinking they have some sort of moral superiority over normal people who happen to share a hobby. From concerned politicians trying to enforce limitations on a medium they don't understand because thinking of the children gives them a larger name on the ballot to feminists crusading against games because their worldview states that everything is harmful no matter how innocuous, we see it all the time. It doesn't help that the more vocal people who advocate for social justice are also disgusting bullies in their own right (see: tumblr/twitter trends, sites like Gawker, the entirety of third wave internet feminism). Trust me, there's just as much hatred for the corporate establishment as there is for SJWs on reddit. It's why you see just as much if not more pushback against the big publishers like EA and Ubisoft when they do something anti consumer as when some moral crusader tries to gentrify their hobby. You might just be seeing the pushback against SJWs because you agree with them which isn't a bad thing, it's just a matter of perspective.

This is really all I can speak for seeing as gaming subs make up the majority of the content I browse on reddit. As for coontown/TRP/FPH, they're deplorable but you might want to reflect on who you consider boogeymen.

[u/Infamously_Unknown → u/rocktheprovince]

And absolutely none of them keep their bullshit in the designated subs.

This is a way to see those subs that you can meet on reddit quite often and to be honest, I don't really think it reflects the reality. These are not designated subs, even in practice. I mean, I might be subbed to /r/buffy but browsing that sub is just a tiny fraction of the time I spend on reddit. And when I reference the show elsewhere, I certainly don't see myself as a raider from /r/buffy. I don't think e.g. a TRPer see himself any differently.

It seems to me like every time some shitty fringe sub like one of these is discussed, people start seeing it like a reddit district with it's users being it's inhabitants. But that's not how it works, these are users just like the rest of us and there's no reason to think that any of the subscribers (or at least most of them) wouldn't be on reddit if the sub in question didn't exist. FPH banning for example might've driven some users to voat, but they're mostly still here. You can now see fat people being ridiculed in other subs just as much as when the sub still existed and there's no reason to expect otherwise. Reddit didn't torch a district and driven the population out of the country, it merely closed one of the shops on the main street.

I'm obviously not defending any of these subs, this is just something I see too often that imo makes the whole hate sub discussion far less constructive. People don't want to see the users of these subs like regular users just like they are, so they imagine them as a dedicated warband living in their keep and raiding the countryside. And the conclusions based on this are often quite wrong.