Apparently it’s “virtue signaling” and “language policing” to not want to use language that actively oppresses people. Very cool.
We are so far away from any meaningful change it hurts.
My favorite: 
Oh, I mistook people being anti-ICE for being anti-fascist… turns out they’re only anti-ICE 
I guess being anti-ICE and being a Good Person are mutually exclusive of one another. My bad, y’all.
And I’m hard pressed to think of a time when a comment on Redd*t was an effective tool in restoring democracy, yet you’re commenting anyway.
This is such a reductionist take. No, making rules against oppressive language isn’t going to “restore democracy”. Did anyone claim that it was ever going to? This betrays the lack of political development of the commenter.
I know this is nitpicking but I really hate this haughty Redd*tor posturing. They could have just said “This won’t fix the problem” but instead it has to be wrapped up in all this smug wording - “Well, according to my extensive study of history it appears to me that in no case which I’m able to identify would banning me from saying the N-word would have ever advanced the interests of democracy 😏”
If banning those words doesn’t matter for restoring your precious bourgeois, settler-colonial democracy then it doesn’t matter if you don’t use those words either.
For redditors for a long time the only slippery slope on the path to facism is their ability to use slurs, not the unchecked police violence, flawed two party that are glorified errand boys for the bourgeois, having more military bases around the world than the roman empire etc. So when they have reductionist takes like this is no surprise. There is no organizing on there, no nada. Just their neurotic behavior