In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: insult and non-insult. Insult is any lanugage or act that is disrespectful or scornfully abusive.

Q: Comment: That the victim 'deserved' killing is not a viable argument in Oregon.

H. L Mencken's position regarding government officials does have some followers, though.

"I propose that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a [government] jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder's deserts. The amount of this excess, if any, may be determined very conveniently by a petit jury, as other questions of guilt are now determined."

"If it decides that the jobholder deserves the punishment inflicted upon him, the citizen who inflicted it is acquitted with honor."

There are governmental job and office holders.....

A: Non-insult
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Q: Comment: I brought up "rape and pillage" -- defined often as "to strip ruthlessly of money or goods" or "plunder". You twisted it to the strict definition of "rape", not I. I will give you that Trump wants to change the "standard", not (yet) the "law". You still haven't owned that you brought up something as happening while Clinton was "in the white house", but the alleged timing of the event preceded Clinton taking office by four years.

I am having a fine day, thank you very much. I wish you the same.

A: Non-insult
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Q: Comment: No he isn't a great Canadian, Let me tell you - why would you say that? But he appears to be a Canadian nonetheless. Sadly, some of us are in the lower reaches of humanity - I even know a Canadian who brags about despising fellow citizens for no other reason than that they live in the GTA, the province of Quebec or are muslims.

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Non-insult
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