# 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:** 6
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145/6 "2022-04-02T13:25:14Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > The reason that the person who assaulted another person wasn’t escorted from the room is because the Producer of record is also an Africa-American. The optics in the control room truck, in the building, in the industry, would have been atrocious. I would like to refute this, but (checks forum) we are in ATMB, and that would be off topic. But i think 1. if that’s what you meant, you should have said it in the thread. 2. if you think you shouldn’t have said it, because it’s a racist comment, then you shouldn’t have said it, even in the weird oblique way you said it. There is some implicit tension between free speech banning bigoted arguments. (Using “bigoted” to encompass racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.) Every community needs to decide where they stand on this. I don’t moderate the areas where it is usually relevant, but feel that “don’t be a jerk” should outweigh “open discussion” in the forums i do moderate (IMHO, Cafe Society, MPSIMS, QZ, site feedback). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deliberate-and-deliberately-offensive-racism-should-be-moderatable-it-is-being-a-jerk/962145)._