As we all know, this is a common trope among the arcons "Liberals are obsessed with race. They always make everything about race and racism."

With this in mind, I figured I would compile some basic stats on how often various subreddits mention racial issues. I looked for the keywords: white, whites, black, blacks, race, racial, racist, races, racism, and slavery.

I used the site http://www.redective.com/ Unfortunately it doesn't look at comments, merely submissions - both the title and any text in a self post. It also examines only the last 1,000 posts to that subreddit.

Here's the data I collected, looking only at the 40 most common words (so if, for example, "Blacks" wasn't in the top 40 words for /r/Liberal it won't be included below):

r/Conservative:

Word	Posts
Black	31
White	29
Race	14
Racial	7
Blacks	5
Racist	4
Races	4
Racism	4
Slavery	2
TOTAL	103

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r/Liberal:

Word	Posts
White	18
Black	17
Race	6
Racial	8
Racism	4
Slavery	3
TOTAL	60

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r/ConservativeS:

Word	Posts
White	26
Black	14
Race	6
Racist	6
Racism	5
TOTAL	57

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r/Politics:

Word	Posts
White	30
Race	27
Black	9
Racial	5
Races	4
Racist	3
TOTAL	78

SHOCKING NEWS /r/conservative is the most race-obsessed of any of these four subreddits. They're followed by r/politics, then r/liberal, then r/conservativeS. So credit to /r/conservativeS here. I'm not a huge fan of that sub but they're undoubtedly better than the arcons.

Hope this is interesting, I'd love to do this again by keyword searching the comments themselves, as I feel that will be more useful than just the posts. Anecdotally, I notice more "but that's racist" posts on r/con than I've see anywhere else, and it seems like the "race realists" usually come out of the woodwork in the comments section. But I couldn't find an existing tool to do that search, and I'm not competent enough to code my own reddit bot for that purpose. If anyone knows of a way to compile keyword frequency for comments in a subreddit, please let me know.

BONUS INFO:

I did the same with regards to obsession with Muslims/Islam, and /r/ConservativeS loses major points here:

r/Conservative:

Word	Posts
Islam	8
Muslim	6
Jihad	3
Islamic	3
Muslims	3
TOTAL	23

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r/Liberal:

Word	Posts
Islam	7
Muslims	5
Islamic	4
Muslim	3
TOTAL	19

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r/ConservativeS:

Word	Posts
Islamic	14
Islam	12
Muslim	10
Muslims	9
Jihad	4
Arab	3
Jihadists	2
Jihadist	2
TOTAL	56

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r/Politics:

Word	Posts
Muslim	9
Islam	3
Muslims	3
TOTAL	15