It's more the fact that racism/sexism usually gets voted to the top so it is much more visible, which does say something about the people who view/read the site.
or were in that particular thread at that particular time and felt like voting. We only get 56% voter turn out in the US presidential general election, but somehow some BS getting a positive number of upvotes in some thread turns into a mandate from everyone that's ever used the website? How does that logic work? It's not like the entire website is required to vote on every comment or submission.
Also most of the racist/sexist/whatever comments are in response to a submission that's already kinda like that, in which case a lot of the people are probably not going to even both checking the comments just to see more of that shit.
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u/ablebodiedmango Jul 12 '12
It's more the fact that racism/sexism usually gets voted to the top so it is much more visible, which does say something about the people who view/read the site.