I agree.  Civil Comments is not a good moderation platform.  Judging comments out of context makes no sense at all.  also, many commenters are loathe to judge someone else's comments as "uncivil" -- kind of on the principle of the thing.  
I agree with you that much of what is allowed in here is awful -- hateful, racist, homophobic and misogynist garbage.    I wish that there were a way to control all of it.......