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Who are you suspecting of being a reductionist? I don't call myself a reductionist, but I do consider myself a physicalist, and I don't believe in any version of dualism or idealism.
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I don't suspect either of you of being a formal reductionist. I consider your position to be less reductionist on this particular issue, for certain definitions of reductionism which I've been studying recently. But note that certain forms of reductionism reject numerical identity
and dualism
and idealism.
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As to mathematical realism, isn't that just the application of Platonism to mathematics?
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Mathematical Platonism is a subset of all mathematical realism. There are other sorts of realism which admit of the independent truth of mathematical statements without postulating a world of ideal forms.
Edit: I suspect that Molokh holds his position for reasons not directly related to reductionism.