# "Racist ICE sycophant" is not a political jab **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 11, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-ice-sycophant-is-not-a-political-jab/922696 "2020-10-11T04:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
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Even the best-intentioned moderators, as I believe you are, can make judgment calls that posters disagree with. More than once I have seen such a call made (not always for my posts, just in general), and they have the effect of silencing an otherwise lively – if not always fruitful – discussion. Such silencing of political speech, especially, and doubly so in times such as this, makes me less and less willing to engage in any thread in GQ. It is not a request for martyrdom, it is an acknowledgment on my part of my own inability to foretell what you would consider a “political jab”. I simply do not hold your view that it was such, and I cannot predict when it is going to happen again, because I did not intend for it to come off as one this time around. I don’t want to keep posting here if political discussion is just going to see unnecessarily heavyhanded moderation. I am requesting a ban just like Tim Mortiss’s in this other thread. [Tim\_R.Mortiss BANNED as per his request after his 3rd warning for being a jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-r-mortiss-banned-as-per-his-request-after-his-3rd-warning-for-being-a-jerk/922665) If you really cannot honor it, fine, I will stop posting. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-ice-sycophant-is-not-a-political-jab/922696)._