• Aria
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    30 days ago

    Reddit’s whole identity is racism. I think maybe OOP was trying to say an apples to apples comparison is possible.

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      30 days ago

      I mean like most of us I came from Reddit. If I knew which sub the post was in I’d have a pretty solid opinion but as is I’d assume they probably got downvoted to hell for some unfair reason. Happened to anyone active on occasion so it wouldn’t be surprising. Since it has so many up votes I can’t imagine, without the context of the particular sub, that they weren’t just getting piled on.

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        30 days ago

        I looked it up out of curiosity. The post acknowledges, or at least implies that 4chan users use more slurs, and doesn’t touch on racism otherwise.
        For my part, I don’t think there’s a large gulf between racist opinions on the two platforms, just on decorum regarding slurs.

        Here’s the link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210922182734/https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/pt2gel/4chan_is_actually_more_welcoming_than_reddit/

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          Ah, r/unpopularopinion one of the subs I almost never visited cause 90% of the stuff on there was just plain stupid.

          For my part, I don’t think there’s a large gulf between racist opinions on the two platforms, just on decorum regarding slurs.

          Yeah. I’d probably make the argument that 4chan is just open about the racism while other platforms like reddit have at least some enforcement leading to it being less blatant.