the vast majority of images on this site won’t be affected
For now.
Sadly, every time some website’s staff has gone down the catering-to-SJWs path they always end up destroying way, way more stuff than the “not my fight” crowd initially thought. That’s what people were fighting against : no one gave that much fuck about Aryanne herself. Everyone who fought back was doing it because they know that you have to nip this kind of behaviour in the bud, before it start spreading - and it always does.
Seriously, the vast majority of images on this site won’t be affected by the policy change. I’m in favor of freedom of expression, so I’d prefer sticking to the old policy, but it’s not really a big deal - people are blowing it way out of proportion.