# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/25 "2022-04-02T18:39:21Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Has racism ever been given a pass here? Yes, it has quite a long history of doing so. Racialism and scientific racism discussions happened all the time. **Chen019** is the first name to spring to mind but there were others that posted almost exclusively on those subjects for years. > [@New Rules for Politics and Elections – January 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-politics-and-elections-january-2020/845727/1): > > The definition of context is entirely at the discretion of the moderation staff. Not sure why you posted rules for P&E, but why couldn’t moderation discretion have used the don’t be a jerk rule? Everyone always talks about it being the #1 rule, but it is rarely used. This was a Cafe thread, not the Pit. He was a jerk and could have been modded for it with zero blowback. > [@RitterSport](#): > > “Do you think that the producer being Black affected how he handled this confrontation between two Black men?”, I don’t think it would have raised as many eyebrows. I actually was a bit surprised to find out today that apparently the whole production staff was black. Not sure how or why that came around but i don’t see why that couldn’t have been asked and answered. **Cartooniverse** ’s phrasing was way off, like it was a conspiracy of some kind. > [@RitterSport](#): > > In any case, they asked Smith to leave and he refused, so you’re even wrong on the facts. That depends where you read now. Some say he wasn’t asked to leave. Some say he refused to leave. Some say he was not asked and did not refuse to leave at the same time. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145)._