Conclusion: US left is western european center-right. These political denominators are all relative to your local center.

I think that just shows our different perceptions - I, too, see many HN posts as very left. Frequently seen in assumptions about values/ethics/morals...

Update: On further reflection, it is not HN that I am describing. It is the content of the posts that seem to lean that way...

I am outside both of the US parties, I think it is like being sober at a party of those partaking in alcohol. Different perception of the same situation.

HN is definitely left of center by American standards. For example, it's generally anti-Trump, while half the country supports him.

Try posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.

Lots of people here favour a lenient regulatory environment and are pro business which seems classically centre right.

Nuanced discussion of things like immigration are challenging though, in all fora I think. I’ve tried to make the point that this is a great opportunity for Europe to pick up valuable American immigrants but somehow am apparently being xenophobic by sharing data of net tax contributions of immigrants by region of origin

They love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.

They did say HN is center-right.

That's simply off-topic. Not sure why you would post that on Hacker News. Most things political simply get downvoted on that basis.

Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?

If you think posting crime stats of all races is racism, you got brainwashed by a cult.

Because that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes?

Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know.

You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table.

So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.

Well, the first comment accurately describes reddit AND it hasn't been downvoted to hell, so you might be right.

Reddit isn't far right, except some esoteric subs either.

Reddit is generally fairly centrist-left for the most part.

Name any far-left position that's not widely supported on Reddit.

Price controls, direct democracy, abolishing capital. I'm sure you can find places where these are supported but similarly you can find subreddits where far right ideology is supported. The average redditor looks at memes, askreddit threads, and whatever hobby subreddit exists for them.

All of these are widely supported on Reddit.

O RLY? Which right-wing positions are common/popular on HN?