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My story is similar to yours, though I just got a warning, not a ban.
The first warning was for "abusing the report function" after I reported a post defending Derek Chauvin. I stopped reporting to the admins after that, and over time grew increasingly uneasy with the direction of Reddit as a more and more fascist-friendly organization, and the willing and eager contribution of Reddit's CEO to millions of Covid deaths left a sour taste (and a nasty cough).
I got the second warning about a week ago after I joked the US government should go into the White House and Melania's lover's residence to arrest them since Trump pardoned a drug dealer, by the same reasoning the US government used to abduct Maduro and his wife. This was "threatening violence." That was the last straw, I quit Reddit after that.
It's not even that I mind them erring on the side of caution, or in this case on the side of insanity, it's the double standard that irks me the most. An obvious joke goes too far, but in certain subreddits (you know the ones) users can advocate ethnic cleansing, war crimes, etc. with reckless abandon.