# Chief Pedant, come on down! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 11, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chief-pedant-come-on-down/734363 "2015-10-11T22:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 200
**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:** [October 13, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chief-pedant-come-on-down/734363/200 "2015-10-13T00:23:27Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > People haven’t succeeded in shutting down the debate, but they have tried. Hell, they’re still trying. There’s an ATMB thread right now where a couple posters have suggested banning topics like the one CP talks about. The suggestion in the ATMB thread: > [@Racist is not an insult when a person is a racist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241/156): > > I think the issue that needs mod attention in the case under discussion is more on the lines of hijacking every goddam thread about either race or genetics into this same, tired debate about IQ scores and race. Can we just have one thread on that topic and not let every other thread devolve into it? Reminds me of the time when every political thread, no mater what the original subject was, would eventually become a debate about the Iraq War. The response: > [@Racist is not an insult when a person is a racist.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241/157): > > THAT we could make happen. I’m perfectly comfortable with an OP asking that such be excluded and my enforcing it. > > Generally, the original poster does not have that level of control - one starts a thread, one doesn’t own it - but from time to time I’ve seen good reason to back that sort of thing up. I’ve read the thread and I’m not seeing anything other than requests along this line. Oh, and can we please use the word “racist”. No banning. No shutting down discussion. > [@magellan01](#): > > One more thing: you are one stupid, hateful, close-minded bitch. Not directed at me, but you are scum. You are lower than the stain my dog leaves after scooting his ass across the floor. If more brain could suddenly ooze from the ruptured anal fistula of a lowland gorilla, you’d scrape it up and congratulate yourself on the upgrade. And you’d still need autocorrect to spell your name. Racist not racial. Practice. You’ll get there if you try, you maggot-infested dipshit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chief-pedant-come-on-down/734363)._