Any user, new and old, can read that thread and verify that Larian's moderation is ok to let that hate speech content standing on their pages.
They can also, if they consider it to be any worse than any of the other insults in the topic, use it to inform their opinion of Tuco.
Some time ago I heard a reporter tell a story about a trip to Germany. A person there made a positive comment about an internet figure who had gained some prominence, then in part because of a video where he said some pretty racist things, his influence dropped quite a bit. The reported asked how he could support a racist, to which the answer was that the guy wasn't a racist. The German wouldn't believe the quote the reported gave (I don't recall the exact details) and the reported could not find the video as proof, since it was blocked in Germany for being offensive.
Cleaning up 'offensive' comments wouldn't make posters any less offensive, but it would let them keep a nice, clean image (short of being permanently banned).
In any case, it is unlikely any new forum members are reading the entire thread, even if they post in it, existing forum members who have not been following it are unlikely to start, and the topic itself I wouldn't expect to continue much past an official statement on the matter.
