# The elephant in the room. 4063 active members

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**Created:** [June 4, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elephant-in-the-room-4063-active-members/788139 "2017-06-04T23:07:14Z")\
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Now old Zombies in #Cafe Society that are heavy in misogyny will get closed instead.  
For #Great Debates & #Politics & Elections threads for tired subjects will get closed instead. Our tolerance for Conspiracy Theories is lower I guess and we have 6 subjects that are now done.

> **The 6 subjects quoted from the rules.**
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> > [@New Rules for Politics and Elections – January 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-rules-for-politics-and-elections-january-2020/845727/1):
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> > - **Scientific racism** or any particular argument about why any particular group of humans is inherently better than any other group
> > - **Holocaust Denial.** Seriously, guys. If someone wants to seriously debate whether the holocaust occurred, we can safely say they’re not someone we want here
> > - **Encouraging discrimination** against any minority groups. This can include race, gender, sexual orientation or any other group into which a person might belong. Such depresses debate and discussion and in contrary to the goals of Great Debates and Elections
> > - **Men’s Rights Advocacy**. This can include threads about how men are somehow disadvantaged in society, women are somehow genetically inferior or have a predisposition toward specific gender roles and other threads about the ways in which men are somehow naturally entitled to be in charge
> > - **9/11 Truthers.** This includes any information about how either 9/11 didn’t happen, it was a false flag operation by the government or any other idea that denies the events of that day.
> > - **Climate Change Denialism**. We believe the science. While there is room to debate ways to deal with climate change, the existence of such is an observed fact.

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