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[–]magnora7 28 insightful - 7 fun28 insightful - 6 fun29 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

It's the lowest common denominator for this website. Reddit is so obviously taken over by left-leaning people that most of the people who get banned unjustly are right-leaning. Ergo saidit's culture reflects what reddit cuts off.

So posts like "reddit bad" and "leftists bad" are things almost everyone here will agree with because of their experience with reddit which is what caused most of them to come here. It gets old sometimes, but it's also understandable given how this place came to exist.

In addition some people want to hijack saidit's culture to make it lean more far-right, and that contributes to the overall lean as well.

It was nice when we had all the lesbians here who got banned from reddit, but they didn't integrate themselves with the site culture as much as I'd hoped, and most kind of just sequestered themselves in subs they took off of /all. Which is fine, I was just hoping they'd contribute to the melting pot of the front page more to add a little left-right balance. Oh well, it's all good though.

I've noticed too if the first few posts on the front page are not good, I notice the posts after that are usually good. Like posts 3 through 40 on the front page are usually pretty solid overall.

[–]BigFatRetard 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I have to disagree a bit. It isn't just about bannings.

The problem isn't who Reddit bans, it's who is systematically silenced among all mainstream platforms.

For example: the right oppressed and attacked the lgbt for a long time, silenced them, forced them to hide themselves, arrested and mocked and publicly shamed them and destroyed their careers (sound familiar?). A direct result of being freed from those chains is the pride events everywhere. People ask "why are they proud to be gay? I'm not proud to be straight!", But that shows a lack of understanding, that they needed to be quiet, to pretend they were something they weren't, because they knew the mob would come for them.

For years now, people on the left and the right have been silenced by the nu-left. Opposing opinions weren't debated but actively silenced, and in a growing number of cases people track down their political enemies and try to use the dominance of the nu-left ideology to have those enemies destroyed. In the past 2 months, mass violence has been treated as justified and massive companies around the world have spoken up in support of this ideology.

With the rise of alt-tech platforms and certain wins for personal expression that have emboldened people, people are finally for the first time in years having a chance to say what they think.

"Why are so many right wing views being espoused on these platforms?" -- well, for one thing a lot of the opinions aren't necessarily right wing, they're just not nu-left orthodoxy. One of the techniques the nu-left uses is to paint all dissent as extreme right wing. That being said, we are seeing certain opinions a lot for the same reason that there are gay pride parades and until recently there weren't straight pride parades: nobody has needed to fear speaking their nu-left views. They have had full support of the establishment for decades, there's no pent up desire to express those, and no reason for individuals for those views to find a new platform to express them. It's the majority, silenced by power seeking bullies, who have opinions counter to the nu-left orthodoxy that are finally being freed to express themselves.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

" for one thing a lot of the opinions aren't necessarily right wing, they're just not nu-left orthodoxy "

Perfectly stated.