# I forget, do we have a general HurricaneDitka Pit thread?

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**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952 "2018-01-06T00:15:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-forget-do-we-have-a-general-hurricaneditka-pit-thread/805952/1166 "2019-09-27T16:32:31Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> So why aren’t people objecting to it when it comes up? I’m really glad I’m not on the right, I would probably not feel welcome at all.
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> Let’s look at it another way. Let’s say you’re a black man in a rural Southern town. You see a billboard declaring that black people are the spawn of the Devil and should be burned in hellfire. You sit in a cafe and the white waitress comes to take your order. You ask if they will even serve your kind in a place like that, she says that it’s not a problem. You ask why they have a billboard with racist hate speech allowed to stand in town and she insists that the town is fine and not racist because most residents don’t have that opinion.
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> You see where I’m coming from. If you allow bigots to go unremarked because they’re on the “correct” side you are endorsing their views through your silence. And frankly, I can’t help but think you do share those views to an extent even if you try to convince yourself that you’re better than that.
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> I said before that as a moderate I’m okay with this board, and I meant it. I am a paid member and happy to be one. But I’m really glad I’m not one of the hateful, racist misogynistic demons who might vote Republican.

We can all do better to call out bad behavior on our side in some cases. But in short, people are “objecting to it when it comes up”. If you’re talking about the thread I’m thinking of (don’t recall the title, but a GD thread a few months back asking if any conservative principles are NOT based on bigotry/hatred/etc.), numerous (liberal/left) posters chimed in with tolerant and broad-minded defenses of conservatism in general and criticized posts that childishly lumped it altogether as fundamentally bigoted and hateful. Your hypothetical doesn’t match, since there were plenty of posters publcly criticizing the simplistic denigration of conservatism.

So once again, I think your characterization of the board is false. Shitty and bigoted posts are usually called out, even when they’re made on the “liberal” side.

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