More Black people prefer "All Lives Matter" to "Black Lives Matter" according to polls, but reddit would make you think BLM is massively popular while "All Lives Matter" is hate speech.
60% of whites and 61% of other minority voters put all lives first. Among blacks, 44% say black lives matter; 47% all lives matter.
The vast majority of Americans oppose defunding the police, but reddit would make you think #DefundThePolice is a popular issue.
27% of American Adults favor reducing the police budget in the community where they live. 59% are opposed to cutting their local police budget.
16% of Americans think most cops are racist in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. But 67% still rate the performance of their local police as good or excellent.
Reddit is a tiny, tiny minority that has spent the last few years exorcising what scant dissenting opinion there was, while rewarding users for posting increasingly extremist hot takes and outragebait OP-EDs disguised as news.
Reddit vs. other Social Media:
https://i.imgur.com/QOTxRpr.png
Barely 7% of Americans use reddit, yet people browsing this site would think Bernie was winning in a landslide. Twice.
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Reddit (2016): https://i.imgur.com/l0ZloGF.png
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Reddit (2020): https://i.imgur.com/PITjDpN.png
If you scale that for 'active' users, it drops to around 1%. Same with Twitter.
I would be counted in users, even though I only look at it once a week.