And they were already heavy on censorship just with default policies alone, so this only makes an already bad problem be even worse, perhaps finally tipping people who did not care about it at first to finally care about it. Not that that will change anything unless they outright leave reddit, that is, which I suspect will indeed happen.

We might be witnessing the first step of reddit's version of Tumblr's mass-migration, ladies and gentlement.

yeah, I think you are wildly overestimating the amount of easily offended alt-righters in reddit (or the internet in general, for that matter)…