# asahi's warning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 4, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954 "2019-02-04T17:05:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 76

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954/76 "2019-02-05T19:20:19Z")

</div>

A few people asked me why I thought **asahi** was trolling - in this case, being inflammatory to incite reaction.

His quote:

> [@Virginia gov. yearbook page has Klan and blackface pictures](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginia-gov-yearbook-page-has-klan-and-blackface-pictures/828809/254):
>
> Northam isn’t resigning because he doesn’t feel the need to resign. After all, it was “a joke” among (white) friends, and besides, look what he’s done for the Negro in the time since. Would you rather have had Gillespie as governor? Northam “protected” the Negro from the Republican party’s racism; therefore, people should be grateful.

Given other things he has posted, including the line in my sig, over-the-top, hysterically histrionic statements are his norm lately.

Bone said this:

> [@Bone](#):
>
> I thought it was borderline hate speech, that’s why I was deliberating between the two. Even if not hate speech, it seemed like an excuse for asahi to throw around hate speech adjacent terms in order to be inflammatory - hence the trolling.

I agree with most of it. Do I think that asahi uses the term “the Negro” as hate speech? No. Do I think he used it here to rile folks up? Yes. In fact, I took it to mean that asahi believes that not only does Northam believe this, but so do all other white folks. I grant you that I come to this interpretation based on his behavior in the **Huey** threads. I can’t know **asahi** ’s intentions, obviously, but I can judge them by his past conduct. Given his behavior, it’s hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Such was my thinking. Trolling yes, hate speech no.

If the mods want to change this to a note, with an acknowledgement that times are changing, I would endorse that as well.

Question for the mods:

> [@NOT REALLY asahi](#):
>
> Northam isn’t resigning because he doesn’t feel the need to resign. I’m sure he thinks, [del]After all,[/del] **“It was “a joke” among (white) friends, and besides, look what he’s done for the Negro in the time since. Would you rather have had Gillespie as governor? [del]Northam[/del] I’ve “protected” the Negro from the Republican party’s racism; therefore, people should be grateful.”**

In other words, if the poster makes it very obvious that the thoughts in question “come from” Northam, is that acceptable? Or is the ruling that we can’t put objectionable thought into the mouths of others?

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954)._