# Why have conservatives left this message board? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 14, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016 "2025-04-14T01:14:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 713
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016/713 "2025-07-10T23:08:03Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > > [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > > > However, the correlation between MAGAT and maggot is even more unfriendly. > > Is that why people refer to "MAGAt"s? I had wondered about the construction. (Yes, i often miss puns. Why do you ask?) We had a nice long chat about it, and about the many differing points of view and interpretation of the MAGAt term last year. > [@Why is calling Trump Supporters MAGAts allowed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-calling-trump-supporters-magats-allowed/1005060): > > I see the use of MAGAts to refer to Trump supporters in many threads, generally P&E. It’s used pretty casually and it appears to be perfectly fine to say. Why? It’s clearly a homophone of maggot. It’s derogatory. Basically calling a whole subset of people animals. What gives? I’ve tried reading the rules, etc but not sure I found anything on point. The closest I found was in the rules for the P&E forum that said: The use of racial epithets, pejoratives, slurs, and other similar items is … So, yeah, it’s actually a matter for discussion rather than just being taken for granted. For the record, I use it (and admitted to doing so in that thread) when I’m trying to be deliberately insulting to that group, which I do distinguish from the term “conservatives” and even “Republicans” though right now in the US the difference is tiny and decreasing every day. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016)._