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Reddit by itself is not. Reddit can't help that their platform was completely overrun by millions of leftists. They allow all kinds of subs, even right wing ones. But you can't really stop millions of leftists from taking over(and brigading) without banning them all on a regular basis. Reddit just cares about money and popularity. I'm sure, most redditors are definitely members of leftist terrorist organizations like BLM though.
Actually reddit are responsible. Their karma/voting scheme is designed to create an overall hivemind in their users.
A 51% opinion gets positive score and looks very popular, a 49% opinion gets a negative score and looks like a garbage take. By hiding the total votes they make it impossible to tell if +100 is a popular opinion or a 51%.
They use this hivemind creator and tip the scale to make it a liberal hivemind, like when they manually altered the code to bias against The_Donald because it was >50% popular with users and creating a pro-Trump hivemind.
If they want to not be held responsible they can at least show vote totals, if not something pro-discourse like downvotes being valued less so you get 51% opinions with 49% right under instead of buried.
51% will show up as 'controversial'. You can also see it in the percentage of votes on posts.
I'm not sure what the 'controversial dagger' math is. I think it's by close total up/down votes or something like that, not a percent, but in any case it's rarely shown on comments that are definitely both significantly upvoted and downvoted. Mostly only seen on low total score comments. Also turned off by default.
In any case 51% is for illustrative purposes; real divisive issues are probably more like 2/3 and 1/3 because people participate more in forums where they agree with the hivemind.