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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reddit is very left-leaning in general. I remember seeing one of those political compass memes that was like “My state’s politics in reality” with a dot in the center of the compass, and “my state’s subreddit” which was way to the left. It’s a known phenomenon - my personal opinion as a long time Reddit user is that since the site relies so much on unpaid volunteer moderators, these people are largely younger and under-employed and thus more likely to be very far left and dogmatic on the political spectrum.

I think the best thing you can do is ignore/downvote all the extreme content - just don’t let it get traction at all. [/quote]

OP here. Your interpretation makes sense about the &quot;under-employed + free time =&gt; left-leaning&quot; part.
I'm also thinking that since NoVA suburbs are ~65% blue, it is natural that r/nova is also blue. I accept that, but it is sad to see that the people in this sub are so intolerant to any political view that is not left-leaning (that includes centrists). Maybe this phenomenon is indeed correlated with age.

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I mean, you were downvoted for being wrong.[/quote]

This is purely based on your point of view. I won't go into the details on why I think you are wrong because this thread is going to be derailed, but I respect your opinion.[/quote]

Meh.  I have family in very red states, and people there are just as intolerant of political views that aren't sufficiently "conservative."  It's fun to blame this all on the blues, but tall the actual government censorship attempts are coming from red states, school boards, and politicians.

And "intolerant" apparently means that they don't agree with you and don't want to listen to you, which is a completely normal thing that people do and consistent with freedom of speech and association.  No one has to obligation to listen to what you have to say.  You're not being persecuted or prosecuted.[/quote]

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