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: And you, Strada, have every right to make moronic comments, to violate logic, make unwarranted assumptions as though they has a basis in the real world and then to refuse to sign the initiative.

A: Non-identity-attack
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Q: Comment: A large percentage of those "poorly educated" white folks in the Rust Belt that elected Trump are more comfortable being victims than taking responsibility for their choices in life. No one is profiling them. No one is trying to deport them. They get to vote if they want to. They are the only demographic dying younger and they are killing themselves with their behaviors. As technology and globalization make bigotry and racism less profitable, they refuse to change with the times. On some deep level they realize that merit and equality for all are social and economic demotions for them. They would rather die than admit this truth. Sadly, like they do in their families when they commit murder suicides, they want to take the rest of us down with them if they can't have their way. Then along came Russia with their boy Trump. They treat him like their savior. This even though he has never saved anyone but himself. Being ignorant is not a good strategy for success in the 21st century.

A: Identity-attack
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Q: Comment: Well written Richard, but unfortunately very binary.

Can one be fairly well-off and not be a flippin snake?

I can sketch another experience. As a student in early 80's I cracked ribs and broke fingers (mine & others) protecting boesak & tutu from the broederbond thugs on campus. This left one untouchable in state/corporate SA in 80's & 90's : clearance failed.

After 94 I became untouchable in a different way : white afrikaner males without broederbond (stellenbosch and pretoria mafia) connections in high places had no chance of corporate or senior state jobs. So the few that stayed sometimes did their own small biz and did well despite the best efforts of big biz.

But now apparently we are STILL unwelcome arseholes, because we are 'rich' on merit!

first too liberal, then too white, now too succesful. What next: taller than the masses, not fat enough?

being anti-meritocracy is where we all go off a cliff

A:
Non-identity-attack
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