# tomndebb, allowing racist hate speech was a bullshit mod call **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 12, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-allowing-racist-hate-speech-was-a-bullshit-mod-call/727632 "2015-08-12T06:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 221
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-allowing-racist-hate-speech-was-a-bullshit-mod-call/727632/221 "2015-08-16T18:57:36Z")
> [@Grotonian](#): > > No, it was I who argued self-defense. **Construct** never did. Nope. > [@Construct: Are you for real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/construct-are-you-for-real/727501/119): > > Marxists have empirically shown that when they gain power, they have a tendency to kill their enemies. This has been proven in in the Soviet Union, in China, and in Cambodia. As someone who is certainly not a friend of Marxism, I have a vested interest in ensuring that Marxists don’t succeed. And I’d be better off it they were shot, because they’d do exactly the same to me. That is _ **Construct** _ arguing self defence. As for the ridiculous argument about what some historic Marxists regimes have done, it has no bearing - I’m personally a pacifist and I follow Marx’s teachings (not as much as I follow Proudhon’s, but I still count myself as a Marxist), so what have I personally done to deserve going up against the wall? What have the Marxist state governments in India done? Collective punishment is a war crime for a reason, but hey, advocate for it if you like. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-allowing-racist-hate-speech-was-a-bullshit-mod-call/727632)._