# Debate: You can't say anything "of substance" on this board **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312 "2023-02-04T19:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 156
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312/156 "2023-02-06T16:27:07Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > A little hyperbole is too much for you? You’re being absurd. Get over yourself. Here’s how a rational, functioning adult responds to criticism, when it is pointed out that something they said could be offensive: > [@puzzlegal](#): > > By the way, despite my misgendering people, I’m still friends with all these people. Accidental misgendering isn’t some horrible sin. It’s like being clumsy and bumping into people. It’s annoying to the person affected, of course. It’s something to attempt to avoid of course. But no one thinks you are a horrible person so long as you try.) Here is how you respond to criticism, when it is pointed out that something you said could be offensive: > [@The SDMB needs to have a banned words list](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-needs-to-have-a-banned-words-list/978494): > > In a thread in IMHO about the new Martin Luther King statue in Boston I used the word “uppity.” @puzzlegal put in a mod note saying: I had NO idea that this word had racist baggage associated with it. NONE AT ALL. If you want to say I am stupid…fine. I really did not know. I use the word so rarely I cannot remember ever using it before. Context. Context, context, context. There is no reading of what I wrote that is racist. Instead, the mod saw “a word that is naughty” and pounced … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-you-cant-say-anything-of-substance-on-this-board/979312)._