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It might for a while. Permanently? No way. But perhaps it can be like that a bit more than it is at the moment.
I have absolutely no delusions about eradicating the racist stuff, or the sexist and gender issue stuff (cocks, porn, homophobia, etc) by banning a few people. This stuff will always exist.
But... that's not really a good reason to accept it either. If we accept it exists, then that's one thing... but on the whole we don't want to start tolerating and encouraging it.
If it can be reduced substantially by a few people who really post most of it self-moderating... then great, as I won't get involved.
And if I ban people and that reduces that stuff substantially... then great, as we'll have a better place to hang-out online and the reduction in incidents means that it's back within the realm of "you the community can just call people out on this". I guess that's where it fell apart... it became so commonplace that everyone likely to call people out just got tired of doing so.