&gt; <i>I&#x27;d be in agreement with you if the OP started and stopped with that first sentence, but he didn&#x27;t</i><p>No, it&#x27;s exactly the other way around: if the comment had omitted the first sentence, it would have been fine. That bit could be taken out without any loss of information, and should have been.<p>Despite how much you&#x27;ve posted about this, there&#x27;s no serious argument here. A slur followed by a factual statement is obviously still a slur.<p>As for &quot;shutting down the discussion&quot;, that&#x27;s a bit of a stretch with 650 comments in one thread and 500 in the other.