TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Comment: The representatives of the government in power should be in the position, all things being equal, to offer appointments and positions at its disposal as it thinks fit.  If there is a law against it doing so, that law should be abolished.  If a government cannot use patronage appointments in the open to smooth its agenda then it will do so in the shadows.  Of course a government that uses patronage appointments recklessly, putting someone in a position where he/she is in over their head, will sooner or later be recognized as incompetent will have to face the consequences.  Governments should be allowed to act foolishly, essentially against their own long term best interests, in this regard.  That's one of the reasons we have elections; to get rid of foolish, incompetent governments.

SOLUTION: Non-identity-attack

PROBLEM: Comment: Nobody every had a "blessing", cut a ribbon or held a groundbreaking for maintenance project.

The elected elites love photo-ops and they never, ever get their shoes dirty.

SOLUTION: Non-identity-attack

PROBLEM: Comment: For those new to BC, the so-called Liberals are not really like Sunni Ways Trudeau Liberals; they are the old Socred party, but they've been in for so long that the corruption is smelling worse and worse. Pick your stench. On the other hand is the NDP or as I've heard it accurately called, the SpenDP who have even less fiscal responsibility than federal Junior. Remember that weasel, Glen Clark? That is what the NDP brings. Is there a good solution that one can vote FOR? I don't think so this time round. The Greens are out to lunch fiscally - even worse than the SpenDP or federal Junior - and the BC Conservatives are disorganized and currently only running two candidates. It is time to leave Canada for tax purposes for a cycle or three. I don't know that I can be a "30 second Socred" again and vote for Bubbles and her band of smiling corruption. Dubai is calling.

SOLUTION:
Non-identity-attack