Submitted by AutoModerator t3_z7kop2 in nyc
drpvn t1_iy8zrfc wrote
Reply to comment by Remarkable_Salary556 in Weekly Crime Thread - Week of November 29, 2022 by AutoModerator
I don’t say “only.”
Reddit’s biggest group of users are young white men.
Remarkable_Salary556 t1_iy931es wrote
Lol so what? I read and understood all of your words.
Is this sub's biggest group of user young white men? Are you and I both young white men? Does numerical majority equal distribution of impact?
Neither of us know any of this – Reddit is a dark forest and that is the logical assumption for all interactions.
drpvn t1_iy95db8 wrote
I don’t think you did understand my words if you think that pointing out that it’s not true that “Reddit is only populated by young white online men” is refuting anything I wrote.
Yes, it’s very likely that this sub’s biggest user group is young white men. That would be consistent with the survey data about Reddit’s overall demographics.
NetQuarterLatte t1_iy9ufku wrote
Younger male and liberal is the majority on Reddit. That alone would already skew the sub towards a population that feels less vulnerable or do not worry as much about public safety.
The fact that so many lack the empathy to understand the reality of others is probably related to something else, though. Because I know many young liberal men who have a lot of empathy.
>About seven-in-ten (71%) of Reddit news users are men, 59% are between the ages of 18 and 29, and 47% identify as liberal, while only 13% are conservative (39% say they are moderate).
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>In comparison, among all U.S. adults, about half (49%) are men, just 22% are 18- to 29-year-olds and about a quarter (24%) say they are liberal.
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