# Pitting Max\_S

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074>\
**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:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-max-s/959074/953 "2023-06-13T23:51:52Z")

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The fuck? My ignore either timed out (didn’t think I had anything less than permamute) or broke.

So today, I get treated with Max’s absolute BS comment equating calling entire classes of groups dehumanizing / demonizing names, with calling professional asshole (empirical truth that) Donald Trump names.

> [@Dehumanizing language should not be allowed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dehumanizing-language-should-not-be-allowed/985435/85):
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> > [@Dehumanizing language should not be allowed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dehumanizing-language-should-not-be-allowed/985435/60):
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> > We’ve pointed out specifically what we mean be dehumanizing(or perhaps, demonizing) when it comes _from_ the right. Perhaps you can point out specific examples when it is directed _at_ the right?
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> Here are two examples. For the record, I’m 100% against a rule that would prohibit this kind of language in Politics & Elections. In the context of politics, civil discussion tolerates a bit of “dehumanizing language”. I’m all in favor of the existing rules which prohibit directing this kind of language to other participants of the conversation.
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> > [@Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/6464):
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> > When your strategy hinges on you being the meanest dog in the neighborhood then, in the end, that’s what you are.
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> > A dog.
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> > [@\*\* SDMB live coverage thread, 2nd POTUS debate, 10/09/2016 \*\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-live-coverage-thread-2nd-potus-debate-10-09-2016/767737/95):
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> > I watched part of the first debate. I tuned in at the beginning but it started getting so painful I switched channels for a while. Came back, same thing.
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> > I wonder how much of the debate tonight I’ll be able to take. I’d like to see the Donald make a fool of himself, but it kind of hurts. This is a guy who wants to be POTUS, and so far her’s acted like an ape(sorry, apes). And people, some of them, will still vote for him!

Fuck you Max. I knew you were evil by your own admission, but I didn’t think you were that stupid or dishonest. Color me wrong.

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