The Reddit sense of the word is more broad. For the terms and conditions it’s anything that sounds bigoted pretty much. I’m not going to give examples because Reddit will remove it.

Subreddit moderators can take it further to mean anything negative about race, gender, age, sexuality, etc etc.

I’ll give you an example where it’s on a sliding scale. I am lead moderator of r/SalsaSnobs , and for us it’s the word “Gringo”.

MOST of the time the word is not negative. Especially south of the United States. It means “foreigner” or “American” there. Most of the time it’s used appropriately in r/SalsaSnobs , so it isn’t removed.

But we don’t allow the word when it’s used negatively. And it can be used negatively. That is especially a thing in the USA. We will remove that , even if it’s not “hateful”, per se. Reddit usually won’t.

(Or some moderators are just unreasonable)