In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: identity-attack and non-identity-attack. Identity attack refers to anything rude or disrespectful about someone's identity, including appearance, race, gender, and sexual orientation.

[Q]: Comment: What a crock! Scaremongering from an academic hoping if a disaster occurs in the markets, he can be the first to claim he predicted it.

Substitute "mutual funds" for ETFs and you have the same story - a bundle of assets packaged by a provider that includes a variety of holdings, all priced to their underlying value. Since MFs dominate ETFs by a factor of ten to one, why not apply the fear to a much bigger share of the investing world?

And by talking about a bundle of bonds in an ETF fund that masks the bad ones with the good ones -- just to draw an analogy to mispriced MBS -- makes it more ridiculous, because the bond rating services were responsible for treating the overall tranche without looking at the components in the ratings given to them. Deliberate and malicious incompetence, since the providers took out insurance to cover the losses on the products they fobbed off to the MBS purchasers, who suffered real losses from the mis-rating and had no cover.

Lousy analogy.
[A]: Non-identity-attack


[Q]: Comment: Quote: "Michelle Obama is taking some heat for recent remarks she made on gender, but I'm struggling to muster outrage given the sheer incoherence of what she actually said."

True, I've rarely found what Michelle says coherent, but I suspect that what she's saying is primarily directed at black communities. She could have gone much further and bluntly stated that blacks coddle far too much the criminality and paternal irresponsibility in black males. (I won't call them men.) That's glaringly obvious and different from mostly white schools where ordinary boyishness is attacked as "toxic masculinity."
[A]: Identity-attack


[Q]: Comment: I would argue that he has many similarities with Hitler and Kim Jong Un. Without the checks and balances we have in place, many of which he is constantly attacking, he seems to be aspiring to run our country as they would. He is, in my opinion. one of the worst people on the planet. Based on his own words and actions he is at the very least a racist, a xenophobe, a lying sociopath, a misogynist, and an extreme narcissist. He has zero empathy and compassion for others and an overblown sense of self that I've never seen before. Other than all of that, sure, he's "a good man."
[A]:
Non-identity-attack