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I always think reddit is full of immature kids, bored "IQ" teens and old idiots. Those "trends" (which do not exceed 50k people on average) include the 3 mentioned categories

probably an algo making that decision

Nope, there has been multiple confirmations that reddit admins run the algo and curate which ones to make trending.

It's how reddit stops obvious hate subreddits from hitting the trending page.

> What would've their response been if this happened in a European country?

I think's it's human to initially dehumanise people who are different but what's sad is when you point it out people just double down and insist it's ok.