# Linking to hate speech, again **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 26, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441 "2025-01-26T19:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441/1 "2025-01-26T19:24:49Z")
Well, our resident bigots are back at it. In post 1010 of the “Is It Time To Tone Down the Wokeness?” thread, DemonTree posts a link to horrific hate speech, while stating that it reflects her own opinion. The linked piece routinely misgenders trans people, and explicitly makes the claim that: > There is no such thing as a “trans person”; there are people who identify as “trans,” and people who have gender dysphoria. There are people with chromosomal abnormalities, people with psychological scars, and people swept up in a social contagion. But there is no essential category of being denoted by the word “trans.” This is a clear violation of SDMB policy on hate speech, and if she had simply posted this under her own name, she would surely have been warned, and more likely suspended or banned. So why are we letting her get away with this? I started an almost identical thread when Aspidistra tried this shit three years ago, and everyone seemed to agree that it shouldn’t be permitted, but the thread was eventually closed when certain posters went off the rails, without any mod ruling be made. So I ask AGAIN: Can we get a clarification that hate speech _really_ isn’t allowed, and we aren’t going to leave a loophole open that makes that rule meaningless? I request that people not hijack this thread by trying to debate whether the current SDMB rules about hate speech should be amended. I want to focus on this specific trick being used to circumvent those rules. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441)._