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: "President Donald Trump's mealy-mouthed mutterings on the terrorism let loose in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday are worthy of the hypocrite and instigator of hate that he has proved himself to be. Trump knows what was at work on those streets and who was behind it. As well he should. They are some of the same forces that helped to put him in the White House."
---- SFGate

SOLUTION: Non-identity-attack

PROBLEM: Comment: Ummm . . . . we just wrapped up 8 years of Barrack Obama with his incredibly sensitive but confused, milquetoast approach to international terrorism - which only gave rise to ISIS and is fast-tracking Iran to a nuclear bomb.

I'm sorry, but it's amazing how it's always a Muslim columnist in a western newspaper or a Muslim personality on a cable news network show who are so critical of the west but so insightful with all of the answers on how the west can jump through the hoops and finally gain peace from Islam.

Hey, how about it if Islam takes the big step and turns off the flow of terror and violence upon its own people as well as the west? Muslims terrorize and kill far more Muslims than they do of westerners. Try sorting his one out for yourselves first and we'll all benefit.

SOLUTION: Identity-attack

PROBLEM: Comment: The Trump Derangement Syndrome is strong in the editorial room of the Globe and Mail.  Every day their columnists pound on their keyboards in a purple -faced rage at this outsider who dares to challenge the progressive world view of globalism,

SOLUTION:
Non-identity-attack