# Ed, WTF?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-wtf/482650 "2009-01-23T15:46:45Z")\
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> [@hajario](#):
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> Japanass is a slur on a nationality, not a race. To be a racial slur it would have to be Assian.
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> Assperanto is a slur on a recently invented language. Slurring Esperanto is like slurring Klingon.

Ah OK. Nevermind. I just saw this and realized that it probably applies here.

> [@Ed, could you review a ruling please?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-could-you-review-a-ruling-please/480891/39):
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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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