# Thread-banning in "MGT Must Go" thread

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**Created:** [January 26, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-banning-in-mgt-must-go-thread/978849 "2023-01-26T19:27:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-banning-in-mgt-must-go-thread/978849/2 "2023-01-26T19:40:48Z")

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To add some facts, I believe it’s an allusion to this:

[Carthago delenda est - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est)

So perhaps it could be characterized as a literary allusion rather than a willful use of a foreign language to communicate? There’s no bright line here, I’m guessing nobody would think _Civis Romanus sum_ needs a translation, but this is more obscure.

But I think the ejection was principally based on it being a call to violence, and as for this -

> [@Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1039):
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> Sorry, I’ve been filling my head with Duolingo Latin lessons. It’s simply a translation of the thread title.

I think this is a bit thin. It’s not simply a translation of the thread title, it is definitely “must be destroyed” rather than “must go”.

I would not be happy about “[public figure I like] **must be destroyed** ”, and we should be consistent in our standards.

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