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r/the_donald is not just about "disagreeing" it's literally the worst kind of ecochamber of conspiracy theories, veiled (and sometimes not-so-veiled) racism and constant calls to action against "the left". They are such an ecochamber that 90% of the time they speak on memes that nobody else understands (or cares to understand.)

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Communities developing their own language and shared understanding is nothing new.

Yes, sometimes racist things are said, but are frequently downvoted or pushed back on. Unless, of course, if you considering being, say, anti-Islam as "racist".

The most common thing I see is that T_D users accept all races and immigrants, but only if they conform to western ideals(say, by not killing gay people or stoning women) and american culture.

Would you say being "anti-Jewish" is racist or bigoted?

I think either word could work

But somehow you don't consider being "anti-Islam" (read: anti-Muslim, because people with that set of prejudices is not going to be threading too thin) racist?

"jewish" has, at least historically, had both an ethnic and religious component; which is why anti-jewish could potentially be described as racist, depending on the time and circumstance.

this is not really the case for islam or christianity; use of "racism" there is a typical "postmodernist race theorist" fallacy used to shut down discussion and avoid addressing arguments.

r/neoliberal is a globalist echo chamber, r/blackfellas is a black racist echo chamber, r/latestagecapitalism is an anticapitalist echo chamber, and r/sandersforpresident is a Bernie Sanders echo chamber.

Reddit's voting system is designed to form echo chambers around a single topic. Why would Donald Trump's subreddit _not_ be an echo chamber?

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