but's it's always convenient to think that way about someone you don't like.

What is it with people on reddit and thinking saying stuff like this adds to their point or makes their point more valid? There is no way to prove anyone thinks in any manner unless they explicitly state so. All it does it make you seem pretentious and make people with differing opinions more resistant to having their mind changed.

Anyway, just because you haven't seen it happen doesn't mean it doesn't. I got in an argument with a guy about a movie - something innocent enough. I thought his opinion of said movie was dumb, and I wasn't the only one. About 3-4 people in our group chat got in an argument with him and he pulled out the free speech card. Over a movie. This same dude also happens to think race mixing is wrong and white people are inherently superior (despite the fact he's Mexican).

But none of that is relevant because you don't know if that actually happened or not and it's not concrete evidence, and neither is you saying you haven't seen it happen. You want to see a subreddit that purports it is a bastion of free speech but still bans differing opinions? /r/The_Donald. Want examples? Here. And you want them claiming free speech? Here. Before it was removed it at 10k upvotes. And you want to see disgusting content that was never removed on The_Donald? Here's a dead woman who was raped and they're pinning it on diversity.

But free speech on reddit isn't necessarily a thing because it's a private company. You can be banned for things you say, just like you can on /r/The_Donald.