My god this comment is stupid in a hundred ways:

so reddit provides free hosting to neo-nazis who regularly raid defaults and harass small communities,

Regularly raid? I visit "neo-nazi" subs and rarely if ever see meta links. The "neo-nazi" subs are all too familiar with what happened to /r/niggers to make that kind of mistake again.

What BRDs don't realize is that:

1. Even "racists" are subbed to defaults because that's how reddit works, so it's no surprise that they end up in comment threads in the defaults

2. There are a lot more "racist" people than just the "hardcore" ones that actually visit racist subs. The general populace is actually a lot more "racist" than many people would admit or accept, though it's more of a benign racism than SRS types would have you believe. E.g., people who are sick and tired of insane black crime, people who are sick and tired of affirmative action, people who have worked retail, etc.

distributes illegal private photos stolen from women,

FWIW reddit has clamped down on this significantly, and the legality of it all is actually not very clear-cut. Reddit doesn't host content, and links on the site are created by users. I'm fairly certain this gives them significant legal protection.

and explicitly tolerates harassment and rape threats

Not that I'm aware of. I'm pretty sure if you message the admins about harassment they will ban people.

because well gee that's just our first amendment duty as a private for profit company

This is such a tired old argument. The first amendment is an embodiment of the principle of freedom of speech. Reddit believes in a core value of freedom of speech. They aren't legally obligated to allow anyone to say anything, they do it because they think it's the right thing to do.

And indeed sometimes I wonder if reddit were to back away from those values whether it would be the racist subs or the meta-cancer circlejerkers that would get the axe. Because holy shit, they cause so many god damn problems. They are the ones who ride the line of what is acceptable, they are the ones who care so much to create dozens of alt accounts, take over subs, and cause all kinds of other headaches for the admins. The "racist" subs, however vile you may think they are, to me seem to pretty much act like special-interest subs like so many others.

someone speaks up and challenges the status quo. tries to make reddit just a little bit more tolerable by standing up to the admins. "interferes" with reddits culture a little bit. lolbanned

See above. Tbh I don't really know/understand why she was banned. The admins probably know stuff that other people don't know. They know about your alt accounts and shit, they know what you PM. In general I've been impressed with the administration of this site (especially lately) and I don't think that they would just slam somebody for no reason.

there is no freedom of expression on this website.

Oh now they want freedom of expression huh?

there is no challenging of entrenched hierarchies by speaking truth to power.

If this were true then this could just as easily be said by a "racist" on this site, since I think racism challenges entrenched hierarchies more than anti-racism which is generally accepted.

there is only circlejerks, shitty jokes, witch hunts,

lol

creeps, pedos and racist fucks.

Actually I bet all three of those groups combined, especially the more dedicated members of them, constitute a very small part of reddit's overall population.

You get impressions like this when you are tunnel visioned.

this is the reddit delenda estiest week in recent memory. burn it all

Then leave.