This behavior has still alienated people who hate every one of the subreddits that has been tanked, and were never a member. There are people of the opinion tha

This behavior has still alienated people who hate every one of the subreddits that has been tanked, and were never a member. There are people of the opinion that a place like Reddit should as a policy extend the same kind of freedom of speech that many enjoy (or at least in principle should enjoy) from government interference. I don't always agree with them, but they have a logic that has nothing to do with secretly loving racists, woman-haters, or pedophiles. Personally as long as Stormfront, etc.'s ISPs don't get hit by government orders to shut them down I don't mind Reddit deciding to nix such stuff on their site. Social pressure is in some instances a good way to push change that we for whatever reason don't want to mandate legally. But if the discourse surrounding the recent political upheavals that the US and UK have experienced has demonstrated anything, it's that immediately accusing anyone who even considers disagreeing with you of secret racism does nothing but preclude anything productive from happening. Even if you think such tactics are fair game, they are consistently ineffective. Save such things for people you actually know enough about to know they are racist, sexist, etc.