# I pit Bricker for admitting he plans to make posts that are "clearly and utterly unreasonable"

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**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-bricker-for-admitting-he-plans-to-make-posts-that-are-clearly-and-utterly-unreasonable/706080/14 "2014-12-02T00:04:17Z")

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> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> The two examples I recall offhand are: [#1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17566548&postcount=483) and [#2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17784723&postcount=664). (Some discussion between myself and iiandyiiii about his approach follows, in each case.)

#1 is total bullshit. The mockery was not dishonest in any way:

> [@Are you a racist? Warning signs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519/519):
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> I do believe that such inadvertent comparisons are revealing, though. It’s much easier to “slip up” in this way in this kind of discussion if one believes that black people are indeed inherently less intelligent. Which is also why I think it hit a nerve.

And you agreed:

> [@Are you a racist? Warning signs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519/520):
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> It’s true that slip-ups like this can be revealing. But people do use cockroaches as examples of very primitive creatures. Racists also like comparing ethnic groups that they don’t like to cockroaches (especially when complaining about their proliferation). So CP was very exposed to the sort of attack you did, which is why it hit a nerve, I would guess. (Had he used monkees or apes for the analogy he would have been in the same situation.)

Yes, I mocked **CP** when he (probably inadvertently) compared black people to cockroaches. But such an inadvertent comparison is revealing, in my view, of what **CP** really thinks (or might really think).

Yes it was mockery, and no it wasn’t dishonest at all.

I have no idea what you’re complaining about with #2.

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