# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/2 "2022-04-02T12:03:20Z")
_I wrote this in a note about another post in the same thread:_ > [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/962147/2): > > As of right now, I don’t believe we have any rules that really cover this or the other incident in the thread. > > This is from the rules: > > > [@New Rules for Politics and Elections – January 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-politics-and-elections-january-2020/845727/1): > > > > **Hate speech, racist epithets and racism** The use of racial epithets, pejoratives, slurs, and other similar items is forbidden. Hate speech as a whole, however, can be defined broadly or narrowly depending on the context of any individual thread. The definition of context is entirely at the discretion of the moderation staff. > > It would be a stretch beyond what we normally moderate. But a conversation was started on this subject, because of this thread in ATMB. > > * * * > > **I think it is a good conversation to have.** > > I’m going to leave this flag open for now in case another Moderator wants to issue a modnote. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145)._