[luckylion]

> I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few.

But that wouldn't be content policy, that would be tone policy. You can say incredible racist things without using any slurs. If you want to police the content, you'll outlaw saying racist things (or rather: things you perceive to be racist). If you want to police the tone, you'll outlaw the use of slurs, insults etc, but allow the content.

I assume that Reddit has an issue with the content, not its presentation.