Sometimes the left just says the quiet part out loud — and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian did exactly that. In a post on X, Ohanian proudly admitted that Reddit — the same platform famous for banning conservatives while promoting degeneracy — “wouldn’t exist” if Immigration and Customs Enforcement had done its job.
“As the son of an undocumented immigrant (my mom overstayed an au pair visa for years before marrying my dad, a U.S. citizen), it’s deeply personal: Reddit wouldn’t exist if [ICE] had come for her,” Ohanian wrote.
In other words, the birth of Reddit depends on breaking federal immigration law. You can’t make this up.
Ohanian’s “heartfelt confession” was in response to tech figure Paul Graham lamenting that America might one day become a country where, heaven forbid, law enforcement actually enforces the law. The irony writes itself — the same people who rely on order and free markets to build their fortunes are terrified by the concept of accountability.
Let’s not forget what Reddit has “contributed” to America since those supposedly noble origins. Beyond hosting subreddits dedicated to every form of filth imaginable — including grotesque sexual fetishes — the company went out of its way to censor conservatives and Trump supporters.
Take the once-thriving r/The_Donald community, a popular hub for patriotic users who dared to express enthusiasm for President Trump. It was systematically targeted, censored, and finally banned outright in June 2020. Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO, even confessed to secretly editing user comments in that subreddit — tampering with his own users’ speech, then claiming he was “protecting the community.”
“I f***ed up. I ruined Thanksgiving. I’m sorry,” Huffman wrote in 2016. Translation: I got caught.
Meanwhile, left-wing communities on Reddit — the ones spreading anti-American, anti-police, and anti-Christian propaganda — remain untouched. Censorship only runs one way on that platform, and it’s always against the right.
Just look at the r/Christianity subreddit as Exhibit A. What used to be a space for genuine discussion of faith has been transformed into a progressive sermon on “inclusivity.” Its old logo — a simple Christian cross and fish symbol — is gone, replaced with rainbow glass and political messaging. The top posts now feature Rachel Maddow clips and open mockery of believers. If that’s “tolerance,” it’s doing a fine job of driving faithful people away.
And then there’s Ohanian’s own self-congratulatory “woke redemption arc.” In 2020, he resigned from Reddit’s board, demanding that his seat be filled by a Black candidate and pledging $1 million to Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp. He framed it as a moral stand “for his daughter,” but let’s call it what it was — a rich liberal pandering for applause from the same mob that hates everything traditional America stands for.
“It is long overdue to do the right thing,” he said. Well, if “the right thing” means injecting racial identity politics into a tech company, congratulations, mission accomplished.
What’s truly ironic is Ohanian’s final line: that some immigrants “do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Apparently, that includes attacking white Americans, censoring conservatives, and profiting off the decay of public discourse.
Here’s the bottom line: Alexis Ohanian didn’t make a case for compassion — he made the case for enforcement. His own story proves what happens when a nation ignores its laws — we end up with a digital empire built on hypocrisy, censorship, and self-loathing.
If Reddit is the best argument for illegal immigration, then America deserves better. Maybe it’s time we go back to enforcing the rules that made this country great — and stop celebrating the ones who proudly break them.
