well seeing as how this chant was known among multiple chapters of SAE and nobody ever stopped and did anything about it, it leads me to believe that the "creed" only comes into effect when someone gets caught.

It's been seemingly known to be confirmed at OU and UT and possibly some other southern chapters. I'm not saying every SAE lives up to their creed, but most do and do take it seriously. If one chapter doesn't, then they need to be cut out from the organization. There isn't a whole lot of interaction between most fraternity chapters (they're extremely independent, even of nationals). So stuff like this isn't something they come together and decide to do, or open knowledge to other chapters for them to say something and bring it to a stop.

go no further than this sub honestly It's like, people wanna take extremes. Either the entire greek system is horrible and needs to be shut down, or everything is fine and SJW's are overreacting. It's annoying.

I think we're basically agreeing here. The Greek community should be taking more action. In this sub, I'm not sure. Traditionally it isn't used for those kind of items of reflection and change. You'll generally find those discussed within each chapter themselves. This sub is usually for sharing cool videos, funny jokes, sarcasm and a more light hearted side of fraternity life slash making fun of ourselves. It's just not positioned as a serious sub (hence why it's /r/frat and not a serious name). I wish there was an active more serious sub about Greek life, but reddit doesn't realistically reach a large portion of Greeks and /r/Fraternity and /r/GreekLife aren't very active. Moving forward I'd like to see it and I'll do my part to help make those subs more active, they're just not there yet.

In the real world I've already heard of campuses and chapters taking steps for positive change, and I hope those continue.