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[–] syntaxaxe 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I think there are a lot of opinions in Voat that are not common among the general public... but there are also plenty that are, not necessarily because places like Voat have a wide reach, but rather because we are trying to speak the truth. Some truths are complicated and escape the grasp of the general public. Some truths are antithetical to the brainwashing people have been getting since birth, and so most people won't think about or engage them.
But the leftwing globalist multicultural nonsense stands against some truths that are so basic and obvious, that it's hard to fully brainwash anyone who has any experience in the world at all. These simple truths we preach might not seem commonly held, since the mass media would never portray them that way, and since the average person who is scared of being ostracized wouldn't shout them from the rooftops. But, in my experience, if you get to really know people (outside of the ideological sinkholes of places like Berkeley and Seattle), they'll admit that plenty of things are wrong with the mainstream culture's values, and that they hold some "offensive" opinions.
Internet comments sections give people a semi-anonymous forum to voice these views without much fear of repercussions.
I think it is the main reason why major news websites all used to have comments sections, and some used to celebrate it as engaging their audience... and now most of them don't. People know the narrative is fucked. The average person might not see the whole picture, and they might have some cognitive dissonance, but anyone paying attention knows that they are being manipulated somehow and that some mainstream values must be wrong.
The public was probably always just a little bit closer to Voat than it seemed.