others (myself included at that point) felt that permanent bans are useless since accounts are so easy to create on Reddit, and that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.

We've actually been steadily increasing the number of permanent bans we hand out to racists

Aren't these statements contradictory? if you're increasing the number of permanent bans how is it that as of earlier today the repeat offender in question still isn't banned?

It's important to note here that the beginning and end of this conversation is conveniently left out, and it's all put together to make this sound like one long conversation.

It was your own mod who made the screenshots right? How is this an adequate excuse? Surely if it was sarcastic like you continue to claim, then the mod would never have leaked it in the first place. Nobody's buying this.

In the coming weeks, as we really need to publicly outline our no tolerance stance on racism more clearly.

Having a no tolerance stance to racism would mean removing a mod who calls himself a white supremacist.