# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 175
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/175 "2022-03-10T16:47:14Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Speaking of Bricker, one thing he was good at was pretending he was in a courtroom when it benefited him to do so. Because we are talking about a court case, and when I came over to this thread I carried that context over. **MrDibble** used the word “trauma” in the linked topic and, as I wrote, I assume he meant it in a strict legal sense then and here, otherwise the word had no relevance to the point he was countering. For those who weren’t still following the other thread, I tried to make that clear here and here > [@Max\_S](#): > > When the law says emotional distress, and when you say emotional trauma, I assume we’re talking about trauma _disorders_ . Not mere stress. > [@Max\_S](#): > > we aren’t talking about the same usage of the word _trauma_ . At first I suspected **MrDibble** might have used it in the colloquial sense but he clarified, no, a reasonable person should _expect_ your average Black person to suffer _trauma_ as in a panic attack at the mere sight of KKK imagery, and the Delegate should win the lawsuit on these grounds. > [@WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845/150): > > > [@WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845/145): > > > > However I do not think it is reasonable to _expect_ a Black person to suffer from a panic attack upon seeing the image. > > On what do you base this claim? > > I think it’s eminently reasonable to expect a _large_ proportion of people living as an oppressed minority under a White supremacist system to experience some form of psychic trauma on being confronted with unsolicited, unexpected, unwanted imagery of one of the worse parts of that White supremacy. That’s what I was responding to when I wrote, > [@WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv-black-lawmaker-gets-email-with-kkk-graphic-and-anti-abortion-message-also-sues-is-this-right/959845/151): > > I think it would be extremely racist to assume the _entire_ race of Black Americans suffers from a mental disorder or are otherwise unable to function normally (I don’t know, triggering uncontrolled hypertension?) at the mere sight of racist imagery. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074)._