For sure free speech is an essential part of a properly functional social media platform. But... It seems to me that allowing all speech, no matter how bigoted, racist and sexist...

No, let me stop you right there. It's either all okay, or none of it is. This whiny snowflake shit is exactly what ruined Reddit. I'm guessing you must be a Zoomer and/or super-left if you can't handle a few morons on the internet dropping N bombs and being edgelords.

This is all irrelevant anyway, as the overuse of a word is EXACTLY how you normalize and depower it. That's why "nigga" became a thing in the early 90s; to make the hard-R inoffensive. It's why "queer" and "fag" are now accepted in the gay community by other gays. Pretending that words have inherent "power" or "offense" without context is the most retarded shit ever; they're just mouth sounds. That's why "puta" is inoffensive if you don't know Spanish.

Either way, "uncomfortable language" is the most First-World Non-Problem out there. And no, I'm not a white dude. I'm just older than 24 and remember when the internet used to be the Wild West and you could see public executions from third world countries, if so inclined, before the corporations took over and made it a whiny Safe Space for pampered little First World Zoomer shits. As in, pre-2012 Web 2.0 internet. More specifically, 1999-2009.

Also, the average person is a fucking idiot, along with 90% of the rest of humanity. Politically right-leaning or especially left-leaning; the average person is irrelevant and 99% of everything sustainable in society is upheld by the hard-working, intelligent, or (maliciously) powerful; not the "average" Joe Slob. Who cares what they think? If you want to really depower "nigger," you should let the edgy teens on here say it as much as possible and not care when they do, so they get it out of their system and it becomes boring to them.

Keeping words taboo has the opposite effect, which is why only snowflakes and pussies complain about "offensive language." There are motherfuckers dying in both Ukraine and North Korea literally right now, and people want to complain about "harmful" words on the internet...