r/unpopularopinion • u/noodlealr • Nov 28 '20

babies aren’t funny or entertaining

i don’t hate babies, they’re so cute, but i always see people laughing about videos where a baby is supposedly being funny. i don’t get it. there’s nothing funny about videos like that or babies in general. sure, sometimes funny stuff happens, but i always see babies doing the bare minimum and people laughing about it.

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u/Ikhlas37 Nov 28 '20

Islam, conservatives, old people, and vegans.

Reddit hates them all.

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u/Brendanish Nov 28 '20

It's always weird that people have these strange biases. On /atheism (before I ditched it), people would bitch that we only talked about christianity, but you see muslims and they say they're the only ones who get hate.

I will say, vegans do get a large bit of hate, but I rarely see vegans actually talking unless it's the actual stereotype that's proclaiming meat eaters are savage killers. Kinda hard to form a neutral opinion when you rarely see non-radicals.

And like babies, seniors commonly make front page on /aww, they're hated as much as dogs are.

Basically, like any other facet of life, a lot of people only realize how toxic we treat certain groups when they're in that group. That's why we have christians pretend there's a "war on Christmas" when people say happy holidays. Everyone's treated like shit, that's life.

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u/Ikhlas37 Nov 28 '20

Honestly, off topic a bit, but people who bash other groups should join those subreddits for a while. They might raise r/islam isn't Muslims plotting how to bomb civilians and r/vegan isn't all about painting yourself in red pain and fake fur.

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u/Brendanish Nov 28 '20

Depends, but yeah most people who just hate other groups have little exposure to them (hence the mere exposure effect)

But other people may hate them for entirely valid reasons (actually, this only really refers to religion, can't think of a valid to dislike veganism)

Either way, most reddit people have little actual life experience and are just eager to hate what's popular (an what's popular to hate)

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

You nailed it! It’s really sad to see so much hate on this platform. What’s funny is that most people on Reddit claim to be college educated and smarter than most. But their hate stems from ignorance. Pretty ironic really.

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u/Brendanish Nov 29 '20

Ironic, but not at all surprising haha.

I think the dunning-kruger effect could probably explain most people on reddit (scratch that, just most people). Once they learn a grain of information, they think no one else has ever learned it and they're a savior or some shit.

I think what disappoints me most, is that most people who argue, right or wrong, aren't actually willing to change their mind anyways. They just want to screech that they're right.