Didn't realize how racist reddit was until today.

[Drunken Irishman]

So many posts calling Michael Brown a thug. They like to pride themselves as being open minded pushers of freedom and civil justice, consistently praising the likes of Snowden and Greenwald and yet, when it comes to racial issues, they're as nasty and bigoted as most of the right-wing echo chamber.

Absolutely infuriating and disgusting.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. you didn't see the misogyny there.....believe me when you see misogyny you will see racism

and homophobia....they go hand in hand. Its why I don't abide racists in my life....

[JeffHead]

2. I've been scanning it on my phone off and on all day.

Noticed the same thing. It has not been one of reddit's better days. So many vile comments all over the place I just had to stop. I'd rather play Clash of Clans anyway.

[Ykcutnek]

3. It's mostly Millennials. Some are full-fledged libertarians. Others are a la carte liberals. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

4. I'm a Millennial and most my friends are repulsed by what happened to Michael Brown.

Of course, I also have friends who are openly distrustful of the police.

[Ykcutnek]

5. 26 here, but I live in Appalachia.

People hate the government unless they're oppressing the right people.

[Odin2005]

10. My fellow millennials' racism and sexism disgust me.

The people who think this reactionary BS is just old people who will die soon are in for a rude awakening.

[AverageJoe90]

13. There is some truth to that, unfortunately.

Of course, once the old Dixiecrats, etc. do die off, the racist wing of the Right really won't have the power it used to have.....but it may indeed still be around longer than many of us would hope.....

[justiceischeap]

6. I hang out in the Photography and Borderlands subreddits.

I can proudly report nothing going on there expect talking about photography and killing Scavs (who are all white).

[Odin2005]

11. I mainly stay in /r/Socialism, /r/Civ, /r/ParadoxPlaza, and the various /r/Bad subs...

...like /r/BadHistory. I got banned from /r/News for telling a racist POS to go to hell.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Reddit was actually

where most of the links to the celeb leaks first showed up too, not 4chan, as often claimed.

I think reddit has a lot more nastiness running around below the surface than many folks seem to think.

[Hari Seldon]

8. Not in the stoner subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Trees

[Odin2005]

9. /r/News and /r/WorldNews have been havens for racists for years.

Redditors are mainly privilaged, coddled, middle class white men. Also, Stormfront uses Reddit as a recruitment ground.

[AverageJoe90]

12. Reddit actually isn't bad overall, as a whole, but it DOES have it's bad spots, no doubt.

The MRAs are perhaps one of the most notorious examples of that; David Futrelle has made a LOT of screenshots available throughout the years on his site.
Nasty stuff, indeed.

[tridim]

14. It seems like the whole Internet is becoming more racist lately.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

15. You must not have been around for Zimmerman.

Same deal. Reddit is nothing if not consistent when it comes to race relations. The most highly rated comments are inevitably long winded tirades about the short comings of the black races, with bonus points for posts that start as "I'm a black person, but ... ". Reddit has been pretty terrible since 2012 I'd say. Some of it is organic, with the broader public being exposed to Reddit, it's no surprise that it's become a worse website. But it's also intentional, as right wing subs are elevated to the front page and left wing subs removed.

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Pretty much. I've only really started posting frequently the last few months.

I also started doing the app like five or six months ago and that opens up every popular post that I regularly don't see (the front page). It sucks. I normally stay in the /r/cfb or /r/cringepics or other places I won't mention.

[joshcryer]

17. Reddit epitomizes Yavin4's comment about the NSA and Ferguson.

They don't want the NSA spying on them but they sure as hell had no problem with a puppet grand jury...

[PAProgressive28]

18. Reddit has a very pro-gun, anti "thug" (note the quotes) side but I believe it to be more trolls

I've never seen the level of trolling that I've seen today on the Internet. Then again I saw that coming more than I saw no indictment coming.

The actions taken today online are the white version of the riots and looting in the sense that it's their extreme reaction to the verdict. It's not every white person, just as it's not every protestor. I'm white myself. They are complete and utter losers who do this stuff every day.

[JonLP24]

19. Same could be said of here

Except it wasn't a realization on my part, more of a confirmation.

It is interesting when certain topics come up & the certain posters that take a side. Though it will be hard to find someone that is still a Zimmerman defender due to things like this -- http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/george-zimmerman-threatens-kill-driver-road-rage-incident-police-article-1.1937738

It is interesting the Zimmerman defenders that I remember and which side they picked.