# Deliberate (and deliberately offensive) racism should be moderatable. It is Being a Jerk **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 2, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145 "2022-04-02T11:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/201 "2022-05-18T20:20:48Z")
I think #6 is important to emphasize for a lot of people in this thread. We have clear instruction that we are allowing posters to say “That post is racist because …” You don’t have to take it to the Pit. I feel like a lot of posters (and moderators) were very unsure in this regard. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/202 "2022-05-19T01:46:14Z")
Thank you for highlighting that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/203 "2022-05-19T06:38:56Z")
I wasn’t unsure. I was _sure_ you couldn’t do that. Good to know you can. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/204 "2022-05-19T06:40:15Z")
I posted this in the other thread, but it probably belongs more here: > [@Clarification of rule against hate speech](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-of-rule-against-hate-speech/964634/48): > > > [@Clarification of rule against hate speech](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-of-rule-against-hate-speech/964634/33): > > > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/205 "2022-05-19T12:07:46Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I wasn’t unsure. I was _sure_ you couldn’t do that. Good to know you can. I was, too. Another change is that racist comments that don’t use “slurs” but that are peripheral to the topic of the thread are now clearly against the rules. Ed’s example about “what does he think he is, Chinese” is based on a post that I wanted to moderate for racism, but couldn’t find any rule to support doing so. While i was looking, another mod noticed that the poster was a returning troll, so that particular example was moot. But i was troubled that i didn’t have a clearer rule to base my moderation on. I’m sure i would have come up with something, perhaps just “being a jerk”, but i had wanted to make a stronger claim of “racism”. Now i can. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145.md?page=10)