# ZPG\_Zealot has been banned for hate speech **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Tags:** suspension-banning\ **Created:** [September 17, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-has-been-banned-for-hate-speech/920850 "2020-09-17T16:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-has-been-banned-for-hate-speech/920850/1 "2020-09-17T16:27:45Z")
After discussion, it has been decided to ban ZPG\_Zealot for hate speech. In particular, we find many of her posts in these threads incompatible with her remaining a member of the Straight Dope community. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-your-use-of-the-n-word/920043/267](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-your-use-of-the-n-word/920043/267) > [@White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396): > > I would have liked to make this post in the thread in question, but it was declared off topic by the mod. I considered which forum to put this in, but the Pit seems appropriate if only so people can also use this to continue the topic of how racist @ZPG_Zealot was being, without having to hold back. It definitely freed me up a bit. And you needn’t be so holier-than-thou, you’ve said on this board that you welcome all rhetorical strategies in achieving your own (political) goals. She didn’t … We want to emphasize that the mere use of the word “nigger” is not prohibited on the board, and that in appropriate contexts it does not constitute hate speech. What we found unacceptable is **ZPG\_Zealot’s** statements that she has repeatedly used the term specifically for the purpose of denigrating Black people, and that she defended its use in that context. That unequivocally constitutes hate speech. In particular, the following post\* was way over the line, in particular in stating a person was deserving of physical harm: > [@White Supremacy is not a rhetorical tactic, ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-supremacy-is-not-a-rhetorical-tactic-zpg-zealot/920396/286): > > I disagree and all my experience confirms that. You have to know how to use the word nigger to convey not just ridicule and humiliation, but a level of utter contempt that indicates you see physically harming that person as merely an inconvenience in life, not a matter of breaking a moral code. I’ll use whatever tools to repel a harasser possible rapist as are at my disposal. While **ZPG\_Zealot** does not have recent warnings, those she has received in the past were for also for abhorrent statements, such as advocating murder and in particular infanticide. \*For the record, **ZPG\_Zealot** later edited that post to remove some of the most inflammatory statements. However, she did not do so until 17 hours after the original post was made. Since under former board standards she would only have had five minutes to make such a change, I have restored the post. In any case, her other statements in those threads also constituted hate speech. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-has-been-banned-for-hate-speech/920850/2 "2020-09-17T16:27:55Z")