I read it even though I usually learn nothing new from it and it only serves to create and foster inside me an intense hatred of my fellow atheists. And yet! I continue to read it every day. R/atheism is very large, and so it is jam packed with assholes.
The larger the subreddit, the better the chance that this will happen.*Īnd so it is with r/atheism. The problem is that Reddit is infested with shitty, racist, sexist, bigoted people, to the point where it’s nearly guaranteed that some of those people will post in your special interest subreddit. The great thing about Reddit is that you can subscribe to particular subreddits that represent your interests – in my case, that might be skepticism, atheism, feminism, science, and pictures of baby animals – and ignore the subreddits that make you angry, like Men’s Rights, Beating Women, Space Dicks, and Jailbait. Before I joined Reddit, I never thought of myself as a masochist.
