AntonioOfVenice

In retrospect, do you think it was appropriate to go after Dr. Matt Taylor, a scientist who just landed a spacecraft on a comet, as viciously as The Verge did?

Anti-feminism is not necessarily "sexism" though. Radical feminists have gone completely off the rail, complaining about "manspreading", "mansplaining" and a scientist's shirt, instead of focusing on real issues.

The Verge definitely belongs to the radical fringe. See: https://archive.is/qzURU

You write the following:

By misrepresenting the theories and aims of feminist and Marxist cultural criticism, discourse across r/KIA establishes an imaginary boogey-man, the “SJW,” who seeks to censor free speech in the name of political correctness.

Since you have already made up your mind that the SJW is 'imaginary' and that people do not want to censor free speech in the name of political correctness: how do you feel about the people on college campuses pushing for speech codes, students demanding that college presidents write a hand-written letter acknowledging their "white privilege", the hounding of professors like Erika Christakis for defending the rights of students to war Halloween costumes they like, establishing "safe spaces" where they call for "muscle" to get reporters out?

If there is no push to censor free speech, how do you explain all this?

I understand, even though you present it as an undisputed fact in the text.

Can you then please provide a source that she claimed to have received 'thousands of threats on Twitter'? I have been monitoring her claims about threats for months now, and I have not yet encountered this particular claim.

Nobody identifies themselves as an SJW.

A lot of people actually do. You spent a lot of time reading Ghazi, so you must have noticed all the usernames and flairs. But in a broader sense, whether or not someone self-identifies as a SJW is immaterial to whether or not they exist. Very few people would admit to being misogynists, but that does not mean that misogynists do not exist.

This is a reactionary term made up by people who oppose the politics of the left,

(Almost) no one identifies as a 'reactionary'. It is a far-left term made up by the people who oppose freedom of speech, among other things. See how easy this is? In this case, it would be accurate, because I am an anti-SJW liberal myself, and yet called a reactionary and neo-Nazi for opposing the agenda of the SJWs.

However, i find these to have little to do with the censoring of discourse on a privately owned forum.

They are interconnected. You want to argue the legal case, meaning that public universities do not have the right to censor free speech, while a privately owned forum does. The question is whether it should. Do we want a safe space, or an open marketplace of ideas? The same groups who push censorship on college campuses push censorship on Reddit. And yes, even though it would be completely within Reddit's legal right to ban anyone, that does not mean that it is not censorship.