Clarification of rule against hate speech

[MrDibble]

@EinsteinsHund

So until this post, someone making potshots at white people wouldn’t have been modded?

I’ve been modded for this, when not using any slurs.

@Sunny_Daze

I will take it further than Max and say that the way this reads to me is that racism is allowable so long as it is civilized.

That’s how I read it, too. For instance, this would make scientific racism debates allowable again:

@Ed_Zotti

Criticism of minorities on factual grounds is not considered hate speech and is not a violation of SMDB rules, provided it is clearly framed as a debatable proposition.

@BigT

This slight change to the status quo does not seem to address this concern at all.

My feeling exactly.

@Grrr

I think intelligent people should be able to debate things the pushes our comfort zones and questions our sensibilities.

Debating the inferiority of me and mine is a nice privilege to have, I’m sure.

@Ed_Zotti

We have always modded hate speech

I can point to at least one Mod who explicitly, openly did not. This is a nice myth, but no, you have not always modded it. And that leaves open the question of what does constitute hate speech.

@Ed_Zotti

The SDMB community has shown itself to be well equipped to identify defective logic, inadequate evidence, unfounded assumptions, and so on

But has shown itself to be very bad at identifying what’s racist. FFS, I once had to point out that a username contained a racist slur. And I got a mound of uphill for it.

@Ed_Zotti

If you see what you consider to be racist speech on this board and you believe our response is inadequate, by all means point it out.

The response to Cartooniverse’s racist speech was inadequate. This has already been pointed out. What is the response going to be?