I totally agree with you.

I wish the admins just would hand down a decree that racism is not allowed and any default mod team that allowed any bullshit should immediately be reprimanded, and if need be, stripped of their mod-positions if they refuse to try and curb racism and other hate-groups from their subreddits.

At /r/History we ban people at the drop of a hat over racism. Holocaust denial and Lost Cause of the Confederacy people being the most prominent of the idiots. But any racism, or attacks on ethnic groups, hate-speech, etc. .... We ban because it's the right thing to do.

There are subreddits with mod teams that don't care. Where the mods think free speech means comment sections should be a war zone. To be honest, I think there are some mods of some subreddits that support the hate-speech.

And yes, I think they need to be whacked across the face with a ruler by the admins. As that's the only thing that is going to clean up some of the worst offenders. But since the Admins don't want to do that, I doubt much of anything will be done in some of those places. It's unfortunate, but until there is a major story "Online Hate Speech and Reddit" on Fox News or CNN in prime time, nothing will be done. But the day that story runs, half the default subreddits will literally have an hour to clean everything up. The other half (such as /r/history) already taking regular actions against the White Power freak wanna-bes on a regular basis.