# Ed, could you review a ruling please?

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-could-you-review-a-ruling-please/480891/39 "2009-01-13T20:29:49Z")

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OK, after some discussion, I was clearly construing “hate speech” more broadly than we normally mean it in the Pit. While a racist diatribe would likely a earn a warning at minimum, we don’t have a problem with (say) disparaging remarks about the French. Accordingly I withdraw my mod note to **Rand Rover** on this point and extend my apologies.

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