Whelp, when I visited the thread it seemed like they were all downvoted. Maybe it was a different one, but I could have sworn every comment that was guilded like that was in the negative teens. And are you ignoring the fact that this s probably some outside source coming in and voting? Read the circlebroke thread. So far as I am aware this sort of racism never occurs naturally on reddit, and is either quickly down-voted or falls into the sorts of things I mentioned earlier. "If you want a community full of racist and sexist shit, make it yourself. I want a community without it and so I attack Reddit for putting up with it. " I want a community full of open ideas where racists are free to post, but free to be ridiculed and told why they are wrong. Censorship only makes people more angry and will never fix any issues. I'd rather see the issues and take them on than hide from them. "All the massively upvoted racist posts didn't exactly become downvoted and disliked, did they?" They also aren't active, are posts that are buried in an old thread, etc. https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/28jwqv/brutal_robbery_of_girl_at_a_boost_mobile_store/ Look here, do you see any racist comments scrolling down the page? This isn't representative of reddit, this is representative of two or three people pulling a ton of crap out of context and pointing at reddit saying "IT'S SO RACIST" when the only real "racism", again, is of the sort I talked about before, where it is crappy jokes that are supposed to be funny because they are taboo. The comments aren't deleted either, as the links still work in the circlebroke thread.
"You can only blame brigading so often before it becomes the community doing it. I mean they obviously all have accounts and regularly do this shit " If a group that talks primarily outside of reddit, and has accounts purely to do actions on reddit, they are not redditors. "What, you think the Civil Rights Movement should have allowed Nazis to march with them and attack their goals?" Reddit isn't the civil rights movement. Any subreddit which wishes to push for civil rights is free to ban any sort of discussion or comments they like. Just look at what /r/feminism does. They are a bit too strict with the banning, IMO, but it is often for good reason and keeps the community intact. " It's not like the Internet is a less free place because racists have to make their own spots" It means reddit is a less free place, however. And, again, i'd rather see and deal with issues than push them to where they are hidden and I can live in bliss. "The point of an open Internet is that anyone can make their own community" Look at the structure of reddit for a moment. I also read reddit, and again, outside of the context of it being an "offensive joke" or some other sort of comment, nearly anything that is racist quickly gets downvoted.