# Politically hostile work environment, or over-sensitivity?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-hostile-work-environment-or-over-sensitivity/829125>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-hostile-work-environment-or-over-sensitivity/829125 "2019-02-07T16:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politically-hostile-work-environment-or-over-sensitivity/829125/94 "2019-02-07T19:33:11Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> … If you don’t understand that what you are saying is an insult, then maybe you should restrict your comments to the Pit where insults are allowed anyway. …

I understand the admonishment and will endeavor to adhere to it (by avoiding comments that come across as “demeaning enough to be in personal attack or insult territory”), but wasn’t a poster banned for doing exactly this (restricting himself to only the Pit) recently?

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