# Can the moderators please err on the right side?

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**Created:** [July 8, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702 "2019-07-08T07:56:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-moderators-please-err-on-the-right-side/836702/16 "2019-07-08T19:13:35Z")

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Let me explain my ire:

The question could have been “How did the Nazis decide who was a Jew?”.  
(A google search would keep you in depressing reading materials deep into 2021)  
or  
“How genetically divergent were Jews from other Europeans pre-WWII?”

Instead the questions read (I’m paraphrasing here, not reading \*that \*again)  
“Were the Jews killing each other in the Holocaust?”  
“Why didn’t the Jews just pretend to be Catholics?”

To achieve the correct tone, Jews and Jewish are put in scare quotes like they’re dirty words.

Then the rest of the thread and the moderation that really rubs me wrong:

> [@During the holocausts, weren't the "Jews" being murdered the distant relatives of the Germans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-the-holocausts-werent-the-jews-being-murdered-the-distant-relatives-of-the-germans/836674/2):
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> Okay, so you found a way to blame Jews for the Holocaust. Oddly enough, I am not surprised.

> [@During the holocausts, weren't the "Jews" being murdered the distant relatives of the Germans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-the-holocausts-werent-the-jews-being-murdered-the-distant-relatives-of-the-germans/836674/13):
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> **Moderating** (…)  
> Let’s refrain from personal attacks in General Questions. If you want to accuse the OP of antisemitism, take it to the Pit. No warning issued, but don’t do this again.  
> (…)

Wait, What?!

Nobody is accusing the OP of anti-semitism.  
That just doesn’t make any sense (unless you know damn well he’s an anti-semite).

> [@During the holocausts, weren't the "Jews" being murdered the distant relatives of the Germans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-the-holocausts-werent-the-jews-being-murdered-the-distant-relatives-of-the-germans/836674/19):
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> I wouldn’t dignify it as a “thought”.

> [@During the holocausts, weren't the "Jews" being murdered the distant relatives of the Germans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/during-the-holocausts-werent-the-jews-being-murdered-the-distant-relatives-of-the-germans/836674/22):
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> **Moderator Note** (…)  
> This being GQ, let’s refrain from jabs at other posters. No warning issued.  
> (…)

Nobody is taking personal jabs: It is a comment on a post; A post that has no business in GQ. There is no fucking question.

But never forget:

> [@Colibri](#):
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> Insults are not permitted in GQ.

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