# Pitting Max\_S **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074 "2022-02-08T00:26:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/281 "2022-03-18T16:29:15Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > I’m afraid you lost me. Yea, that’s why we took you out in the forest and drove away. But you keep finding your way back. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/282 "2022-03-18T17:18:00Z")
I thought that the entire point of a dedicated pit thread to a poster was to compartmentalize the taunting and the pointing out of their stupidity there. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/283 "2022-03-18T17:28:19Z")
Taunting, yes. Engaging no. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/284 "2022-03-18T18:46:23Z")
I don’t know for sure, but I could totally imagine suffering extreme emotional upset at receiving an email like that. I can’t image most people _not_ suffering it. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/285 "2022-03-18T18:52:39Z")
Hey, you want to argue about the underlying issue, go to that thread. This is the place where we make fun of a fucking racist who doesn’t want to engage with Black people, but wants to speak for them, tell them how they should feel, or not feel (because apparently they are sub-humans and cannot be emotionally damaged like real aka white people). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/286 "2022-03-18T18:53:06Z")
sorry ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/287 "2022-03-18T19:24:15Z")
Feel free to mock **Mighty Mouse** as well, for telling the rest of us how to engage in a Pit thread. Asshat. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/288 "2022-03-18T19:33:34Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > They only say so _after the fact_ ! > [@Max\_S](#): > > Why do I know a person will feel pain if I slap them in the face? Because I’ve seen it before, both on me and on others. “Black Lives Matter? What’s that?” Fucking idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/289 "2022-03-18T19:46:49Z")
Hey white knight for the despicable, go fuck yourself! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/290 "2022-03-18T20:00:34Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Why do I know a person will feel pain if I slap them in the face? Because I’ve seen it before, both on me and on others. And yet, you’ve never noticed that Black people are upset by being presenting with graphic imagery of the Klan? That… does suggest you don’t ever listen to Black people. And that you are bending over backwards to justify the aggressor. @Max_S , I am not here to mock you. I am addressing you, as one smartass who likes to win arguments to another. You have a choice you can make. Do you want to be an asshole who argues unpopular positions on the internet to see if you can “win” the argument, or do you want to be a compassionate human being? This is not a one-and-done choice. It’s a choice you can make and re-make every day. But to be a compassionate human being, you need to think about other people, not just about how clever your argument is. You need to develop empathy for people who aren’t exactly like you, and have different life experiences. I believe you can do this. And I urge you to try. Maybe not right here, right now, today. But think about it. Think about what kind of person you want to be. Practice being the person you want to be. You don’t have to stop being a smartass to do it, you just need to reflect on where you are blind to others, and exercise your underused empathy. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/291 "2022-03-18T20:21:33Z")
She wasn’t white knighting Max, she was saying you are acting like an ass in this thread. She is pretty much correct. Max is a far bigger ass and not just in this thread. That is a bigger issue. Maybe stop telling people not to engage. Then lashing out when called on your minor BS. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/292 "2022-03-18T20:44:55Z")
My apologies to @Sunny_Daze Thanks to @What_Exit ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/293 "2022-03-18T20:49:50Z")
Something you almost never see in the Pit. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/294 "2022-03-18T20:52:38Z")
Now Sunny Daze can tell me how inappropriate that is for the Pit! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/295 "2022-03-18T20:59:33Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > My apologies to @Sunny_Daze Accepted. 🙂 > [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > Now Sunny Daze can tell me how inappropriate that is for the Pit! Piffle. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/296 "2022-03-18T21:14:13Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > This is the place where we make fun of a fucking racist who doesn’t want to engage with Black people, but wants to speak for them, tell them how they should feel, or not feel (because apparently they are sub-humans and cannot be emotionally damaged like real aka white people). And a cheap-ass piece of shit who stiffs delivery drivers just because he can. Though I’m guessing it’s the same underlying asshattery behind that. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/297 "2022-03-18T21:53:12Z")
Both driven by his underdeveloped sense of empathy. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/298 "2022-03-19T02:59:22Z")
I’m a straight, white make, and _I’d_ be disturbed if someone sent me graphic images of the Klan. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/299 "2022-03-19T03:06:23Z")
\*male ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/300 "2022-03-19T07:53:45Z")
I agree, I would be upset getting sent images of the KKK. Even if I wasn’t feeling like a target of them or the sender, the KKK is an awful, evil organization for all of it’s existences and guises. I’m ~~upset~~ disgusted by what Max\_S is saying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074.md?page=16)