# Pitting Max\_S

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**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")\
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**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, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/188 "2022-03-10T17:40:47Z")

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> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#):
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> I think what you mean is that you were talking about a court case, and you think there’s some sort of rules of order that mean that MrDibble should have known, cared, and only engaged you in that context

How can I look at _his_ posts in any other context?

> [@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/959845/61):
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> There’s your _ **mens rea** _ . Not actual intention to commit violence, but actual intention to create the perception of such.

> [@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/959845/67):
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> **I’ve been talking about the _actual_ case** , the one she _did_ bring because she _did_ feel threatened.

> [@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/959845/108):
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> > [@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/959845/103):
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> > I don’t think it is outrageous, indecent, a threat of violence, or otherwise **sufficient for damages and a restraining order.**
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> What you, a non-Black woman, think is “indecent” or “outrageous” doesn’t really signify. _She_ says she perceived it as a threat, that she is literally shaken and in fear for her life.

> [@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/959845/144):
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> > [@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/959845/142):
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> > The question is whether a person sending the email would or should have known the email is certain or substantially certain to cause trauma.
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> They _should_ have. It’s the “ **reasonable person” standard** writ large.

~Max

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