To clarify - he's putting the onus on individual subreddits to set policies regarding language. Here's the full comment, in response to the question: "Is obvio

To clarify - he's putting the onus on individual subreddits to set policies regarding language. Here's the full comment, in response to the question: "Is obvious open racism, including slurs, against reddits rules or not?" > It's not. On Reddit, the way in which we think about speech is to separate behavior from beliefs. This means on Reddit there will be people with beliefs different from your own, sometimes extremely so. When users actions conflict with our content policies, we take action. > Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules.