# Is hate speech really not banned on the boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 31, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hate-speech-really-not-banned-on-the-boards/736283 "2015-10-31T20:20:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 113
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hate-speech-really-not-banned-on-the-boards/736283/113 "2015-11-03T17:29:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > If we had such a discussion it would be closed down. in the GD they tolerate this type of discussion if it is said in a fashion that is flowery enough, with just a hint of the plausible deniaibility but citing the very sources like Lynn who says it directly. the manner this is treated is absurd. I would not shut this down. But the moderation that warns someone for stating in a direct fashion: > [@How many human races are there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-human-races-are-there/732359/161): > > This leaves people like me assured with the idea that you’re a racist and this isn’t about science and finding justice for a taboo hypothesis, this is about your politics. this I find grotesquely hypocritical. An analytical statement. The same statement only not using the forbidden noun gains no warning which we know as there is the evidence as I did it . if you replace only the forbidden noun with the definition sentence copied from a dictionary goes without any comment. the idea that somehow the mere use of the noun in this fashion is terrible is absurd - of course it does not preclude the moderating actual use as abuse and insult. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-hate-speech-really-not-banned-on-the-boards/736283)._