Yeah. In my experience, people are more often plain ignorant on international issues than they are attentively wrong about them. Reddit is largely imperialist brain poison. It serves up imperialist distortions as casual fact and then cements it through a system of popular vote (which can easily be brigaded/botted, but that’s not obvious to the casual user on the surface), to make it seem like a popular (and therefore more valid) view. Someone who is entering into these topics in total ignorance will get the completely wrong idea about them and come away with imperialist talking points in their head.
From my experience with reddit, it largely made my understanding of things worse at the time. And when I did know better later (no thanks to reddit) and tried to share that knowing better via reddit, it was usually downvoted to oblivion, if not getting me banned from a sub depending on the topic.
I understand there are the rare niche left subs (before they got “quarantined” or banned) that had some value. But the broader reddit experience is imperialist slop.
I don’t really identify with the “American” label on a social or cultural level anymore. To me that’s just what my citizenship is. These days I tend just call myself a Yankee more generally or a Hoosier if I need to be more specific. These are labels that in my perspective are tied more to regions and the people in them rather than the polities that occupy them.
Please don’t let redditors form your opinion on any group of people.
Most Americans are admittedly terrible but most Americans aren’t redditors thankfully.
Yeah. In my experience, people are more often plain ignorant on international issues than they are attentively wrong about them. Reddit is largely imperialist brain poison. It serves up imperialist distortions as casual fact and then cements it through a system of popular vote (which can easily be brigaded/botted, but that’s not obvious to the casual user on the surface), to make it seem like a popular (and therefore more valid) view. Someone who is entering into these topics in total ignorance will get the completely wrong idea about them and come away with imperialist talking points in their head.
From my experience with reddit, it largely made my understanding of things worse at the time. And when I did know better later (no thanks to reddit) and tried to share that knowing better via reddit, it was usually downvoted to oblivion, if not getting me banned from a sub depending on the topic.
I understand there are the rare niche left subs (before they got “quarantined” or banned) that had some value. But the broader reddit experience is imperialist slop.
Pretty much, yeah. Imgur is the same (same community, even) but arguably worse since subreddits don’t exist.
There are reasons why I refer to myself as Cascadian, despite being under US-American jurisdiction.
That’s fair.
I don’t really identify with the “American” label on a social or cultural level anymore. To me that’s just what my citizenship is. These days I tend just call myself a Yankee more generally or a Hoosier if I need to be more specific. These are labels that in my perspective are tied more to regions and the people in them rather than the polities that occupy them.