# Racist is not an insult when a person is a racist.

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**Created:** [October 11, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241 "2015-10-11T05:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-is-not-an-insult-when-a-person-is-a-racist/734241/157 "2015-10-12T14:40:16Z")

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THAT we could make happen. I’m perfectly comfortable with an OP asking that such be excluded and my enforcing it.

Generally, the original poster does not have that level of control - one starts a thread, one doesn’t own it - but from time to time I’ve seen good reason to back that sort of thing up.

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