# Is this a "Pit comment"?

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**Created:** [August 20, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-pit-comment/632056 "2012-08-20T14:43:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-pit-comment/632056/1 "2012-08-20T14:43:14Z")

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" all the Obama-haters here recently, the unreasoning, largely racist but wholly irrational and unhinged people . . . "

To me it’s a dead-accurate characterization of a certain type who harbors an irrational, largely race-based hatred of President Obama. Are you saying that it’s not an accurate portrait of these types, or that these types don’t exist, or that I can’t refer generally to the “Obama-haters” who post here because that is itself a “Pit comment”? Which part specifically would you warn me against going into outside of the Pit? The part where I cite that there are Obama-haters posting here? The part where I attribute their motives largely to racism? The part where I note that they are irrational? The part where I point out that they are unhinged? What am I permitted to say outside the Pit? I would have thought all of that was ok, especially since I’m not calling out specific posters by name. If anyone wants to decline being painted as the type of Obama-hater I’m referring to, all he or she needs to is denounce racism, irrationality or being unhinged.

Admit it, **Tom** , you warn me about specious stuff like this just to get a response out of me. I think you’ve got a man-crush going on, and I have to warn you, it won’t be reciprocated. Just letting you down gently.

[Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15403303&postcount=12)

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-pit-comment/632056/2 "2012-08-20T14:45:21Z")

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What thread, and in what forum, is this from?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-pit-comment/632056/3 "2012-08-20T14:47:57Z")

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> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#):
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> Admit it, **Tom** , you warn me about specious stuff like this just to get a response out of me. I think you’ve got a man-crush going on, and I have to warn you, it won’t be reciprocated. Just letting you down gently.

The above is a Pit comment, so I’m closing this thread. If you want to have an actual conversation about the rules, **pseudotriton ruber ruber** , start a thread without the above kind of crap.