Historically, I’ve perceived Reddit as slightly left leaning, with strong pockets of conservatives. Recently though, a vast majority of comment sections seem to excuse violence, such as in this thread (TW: police brutality), where people say things like
TW: Supporting violence
The students didn’t hurt the bullets, right?
They paid to learn so… You go learn today
Um…good?
And I’m seriously wondering when Reddit got so bad that the hivemind supports calls for violence. Are these humans? Are they bots? Why does reddit allow this conduct?
I said, “when will he die already”, referring to Trump? And was permanently banned. “Inciting violence.”
I said, “He should be shot” to a picture of Reagan. Who was shot and lived for two decades after that and was banned for 6 days.
If I can’t say ridiculous things on the Internet where the fuck else am I supposed to say it?