# Mod question about a not-warning in a thread

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**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-question-about-a-not-warning-in-a-thread/959121 "2022-02-08T19:17:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mod-question-about-a-not-warning-in-a-thread/959121/43 "2022-02-09T17:56:31Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> It’s okay (broadly) to speak disparagingly of groups that are defined by behavior or ideology.

No, it’s not, by your own account.

> [@Miller](#):
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> the difference between, “I hate Jews,” and “I hate Nazis.”

Antisemites in the '30s and '40s may have treated Jews as a race. But modern-day antisemitism, the kind still clinging to a Jewish conspiracy and the like, that’s not based on genetics at all.

~Max

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