For real. I got banned from /r/nfl because I said people shouldn't immediately assume someone is guilty just because they got arrested and they said I was "dismissive of D/V"
Meanwhile my daytime job actually prevents and responds to abuse, but Reddit mods here think they're changing the world one echo chamber ban at a time.
Echo chambers are a literal blight on the internet. There's the whole "safe space" thing then there's just jerking eachother off with the same opinion constantly and any hint of a dissenting opinion that DARES to even QUESTION the main narrative is met with the quickest and most aggressive nuking from the space. It's one of the main reasons Reddit gets so much flack, similar to twitter but sometimes even worse because they can fight with bans, downvotes and reports.
It's healthy to have some kind of skeptics, discourse, disagreements, etc especially if it's in good faith and not just trolling or rage bait but they see disagreement as a declaration of war.
That's because one side will usually get more pull in the moderating team than the other and it'll form an all-agreeing clique. Sometimes it'll be a rogue mod or two, but often times it depends on what the owner of the sub or the mods in general agree with and they'll just operate on personal bias.
Yup. R/comics literally bans anyone that posts anything remotely conservative. It’s wild that comic books need to be a political echo chamber lmfao. Fucking weirdos man.
A mild disagreement with the message of a strip posted there gets you instantly permabanned. You don't even have to openly advocate for a conservative position, they just need to think you do. And if you politely appeal to the ban, you get called names and silenced. The mods there are some of the most deranged on the whole platform.
The annoying thing is that some opinions might align slightly with conservative but they can be considered old school liberal opinions from like 15/20 years ago. Like super sensible takes but the graph on leftism has moves so far left that anything that even slightly pushes back is seen as MAGA.
This "meme" is BS and you (I hope) know it. Both sides have their very extreme takes these days, while those slightly right or left of the center have to deal with the extreme BS either side shouts. Yea, you absolutely have those people on the left calling you a bigot woman hating POS for making even the slightest hint of a dark joke, similarly you have those on the right calling you a libtard snowflake indoctrinating kids just because you think it's not an issue gay people can marry.
I would argue it's lacking the right going further right as a reaction to the left going further left. There are further extremes on both sides but I can't lie, I've spoken to so many people, have family members, friends and seen people I don't know personally who hold mostly classic liberal beliefs been labeled as right wing or far right by the current media (especially in Europe/UK). If that isn't the "left" or whatever it is now going further left, I don't know what is.
MAGA is seemingly an answer to that, things getting more PC, more "woke" as people call it, people being overly offended, excusing bad behavior based on skin color or cultures, etc. The issue is MAGA and even more extreme people take it way too far. Some are just people who already held those racist or problematic beliefs shuffling into the right in general.
It's like someone saying "I think we should have stronger borders in Europe and less illegal, exploitative migration" and people will call that far right, even though they also want free healthcare, pensions for the elderly, benefits for the disabled, better unions and fairer pay, more regulation on monopoly, more taxes for higher wealth, more eco friendly infrastructure, stop using oil and start using electric/solar, improve the housing market so prices aren't ridiculous for housing etc. I've seen this happen a ton of times lately, especially by British mainstream media.
Honestly the entire way people conceptualize political opinions as existing along a 2d spectrum - whether a straight line like the above or the quadrant graph we've all seen.
That said, there is some point to the idea that the extremes of both sides have gone way off the deep end, and both of those extremes have seemingly gotten much more popular. It is unclear exactly how much more popular they have actually become.
One point that I think people should understand about the right though is, traditionally, it was pretty much a universal agreement from everyone who wasn't an actual eugenicist, that "protecting families" meant furthering economic freedoms and making society genuinely more equitable. Which requires making socioeconomic ability like the main focus. The second focus would be enforcing rules and regulations against wealthy individuals and corporations because not enforcing them is literally the catalyst for the World Wars.
This is why identity politics, as practiced by both sides, is harmful. Yes, there's a good reason to stand up for different demographics rights when they are being villainized. But the neat thing about the two focuses I explained above is they apply to everyone equally. When you focus on demographics rather than the whole, that, by definition, segregates people and gives reason for conflict.
Yup. Reddit is the worst. Every one of my interest subreddits have a topic if you even question the hivemind you’re downvoted to oblivion. For example I don’t enjoy the game expedition 33 or I don’t think Justin Herbert nfl qb is elite. I can’t say either things without being nuked in the voting without ever 1 comment to constructively retort.
They silence anything that remotely gets looked at positively or objectively that doesn’t completely fall in line with the Reddit way, and then people see those precious red upvotes on the stuff that DOES fall in line, and they say “look I’m a good person, too! Accept me, tribe!” And then those people think that everyone who thinks anything different is a racist, misogynist, etc… and must support you know who, and it’s the you know what card they play every single time to get out of any type of healthy or intellectual discourse. It’s actually bonkers how easily manipulated a lot of people are.
It takes a special kind of moron to choose to do something and treat it as a job without ever getting paid a dime. They get paid in having a tiny and useless amount of power and sniffing each other farts.
I was banned from r/denverbroncos for telling a mod to shut up after he was going around raining on everyone’s parade regarding the new stadium. Dude was banning people because he thought the money for the stadium should be spent on other things and that the owners were horrible people. Reddit mods are the lowest form of humanity.
I got banned from r/datingoverthirty for saying that dating multiple people is gross. When I asked the sub mod why, I got a reddit suspension for "harassment". And if you're reading this, and thinking "no way thats the entire story" ... yeah, I would also like to know. This place makes no sense sometimes.
I said something critical of Trudeau once, not violent or inflammatory, just critical. I was banned from like a hundred subs, most of which I had never posted in.
I was in a sub discussing light politics and economics. I wrote something like "so what if really rich people pay 3% more taxes". Was banned because "I hate on rich people, which is a protected class". They lifted the ban but really.
Been an r/nfl user for years ( a decade wtf) Said a lot of things, usually about Chiefs fans. Worst I've got is a warning for a pretty liberal interpretation of inciting violence.
Political discussions are fine, culture war whining is not. If you can’t have a political discussion with people with different views than you without turning it into culture war whining that says a lot more about you than it does the mods.
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u/SwedishMoose Aug 17 '26
For real. I got banned from /r/nfl because I said people shouldn't immediately assume someone is guilty just because they got arrested and they said I was "dismissive of D/V"
Meanwhile my daytime job actually prevents and responds to abuse, but Reddit mods here think they're changing the world one echo chamber ban at a time.