# Steophan: '"Blacks are subhuman" is either true or false, and by itself has no moral component' **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-blacks-are-subhuman-is-either-true-or-false-and-by-itself-has-no-moral-component/715514 "2015-03-20T17:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 160
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-blacks-are-subhuman-is-either-true-or-false-and-by-itself-has-no-moral-component/715514/160 "2015-03-22T08:03:07Z")
A more general question is: _When is a “factual” claim racist?_ On this topic I’d ask about a recent post in Elections: Is the following post racist? > [@Will there be a shake-up in Ferguson, MO's next city elections?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-there-be-a-shake-up-in-ferguson-mos-next-city-elections/714937/6): > > Fear not- in less than a decade, all the white residents will have fled Ferguson. The town will be overwhelmingly black, and its city government will be nearly all black. > > When that happens, Eric Holder can pat himself on the back for a job well done. True, there won’t be any shops left for honest black residents to buy things at (or for the next Michael Brown to steal from), but the government will be all black. > > And isn’t that what counts? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steophan-blacks-are-subhuman-is-either-true-or-false-and-by-itself-has-no-moral-component/715514)._