According to the annotation guidelines devised by <cite>Waseem and Hovy (2016)</cite> for the purpose of annotating this corpus, a tweet is tagged as offensive if it: (1) uses a sexist or racial slur, (2) attacks a minority, (3) seeks to silence a minority, (4) criticizes a minority (without a well founded argument), (5) promotes, but does not directly use, hate speech or violent crime, (6) criticizes a minority and uses a straw man argument, (7) blatantly misrepresents truth or seeks to distort views on a minority with unfounded claims, (8) shows support of problematic hashtags (e.g. #BanIslam, #whori-ental, #whitegenocide), (9) negatively stereotypes a minority, (10) defends xenophobia or sexism, (11) the tweet is ambiguous (at best); and contains a screen name that is offensive as per the previous criteria; and is on a topic that satisfies any of the above criteria.