Feel free to head over there and comment, Jedberg told me the exact scenario your describing doesn't happen when I tried to bring it up. Normally I woudn't bother to argue about this stuff but I'm done with that site, I don't have to worry about harassment on that account anymore. It's why I care so much about sexism / racism here. If you give those people a voice they use it to corrupt everything around them. And so far hubski seems awesome and worth keeping around.
Really, I only find them leaking into certain subs, but then again, I'm mostly subscribed to smaller ones. /r/news, /r/libertarian, and /r/TIL seem to have a decent number of /r/coontown subscribers in my experience. And that's really not too surprising if you think about it. But yeah, Hubski has been much better on these fronts. I've encountered a lot less reactionary bs here. Few people in fear of some "SJW menace."
The people that talk like this have driven me further and further from reddit. The site seems to have become a full fledged hatebox in every single subreddit. I'm browsing /r/GuildWar2 and I'll see people whining about SJWs. I'm in /r/books I'll see vaguely racist nonsense and anyone who calls it out gets downvoted and called a SJW. It seems it's become impossible to engage with people on reddit and be a decent human being at the same time. That's probably hyperbolic of me but it feels that way to me and it's had a chilling effect on my posting there. Half the time I can't even bring myself to click through to the comments because I know there will be hatred and gnashing of teeth even if it's a picture of a kitten stuck in a sandal. I guess I'm glad I have hubski. The majority of people here seem to have a level head and don't seem to be interested in polarizing language and vitriolic rhetoric. I worry that reddit influxes will ruin the community here too though."SJW menace."
I think /r/videos could be added to that list as well. Every time that there's a post with a non-white person in it, they come out of the woodwork to spout their hate and back it up with "facts" (usually stormfront copypastas). They also lean heavily towards /r/theredpill and the ilk, because they get really happy when a woman gets "what she deserves."
Just look at how many Coontown posters are in that thread!
There's a strong chance that the racists and sexists will eventually kill the site. They won't do it over night (like many of them are used to), but over the long run, the site will die. If Reddit takes anything but a negative stance on racism, it just kind of tells the racists to come on in. There's already a lot of defaults that /r/coontown and the rest of the chimpire are comfortable with, but if more keep pouring in, then Reddit's going to get pretty saturated (or unsaturated, since it's a white supremacists movement) with racism. The racists will love it, but a lot of the regular users will not. Like a few that are here now, many users will move somewhere a little less hostile - which will leave the racists unchecked. They'll start gaining traction, which will make more people leave, and the cycle will continue. A couple of news sites will start to catch on to the changes that will happen and Reddit will get a lot of bad press (as in, more than usual). That bad press, combined with new users being turned off by the racial tension on the site and the lack of people recommending Reddit to others, will slow and eventually stagnate growth over time. The site will no longer be able to counter the natural decay of a user base after it's peak, and the site will just wither away.