It's not a racist site, although online forums like reddit do provide an outlet for racist trolls to run wild.
I don't think members of the coli grasp just how big a site reddit is, and how many subreddits there are.
r/personalfinance
r/worldnews
r/fitness
r/futurology
r/science
r/technology
etc...there are several valuable communities within the site.
And frankly, going to page 3 or 4 of reddit's Front Page is like seeing the future.
There's shyt I see on reddit's 3rd page today that will blow up on FB and Twitter 2 days from now.
That's just how it is.
Unless you're one of those guys that thinks reddit steals from 4-chan, which is entirely possible.