[split] PSA: Hate Speech (discussion of video etc)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't know exactly what transpired before the confrontation. The white guy is angry and says some stuff about one of them having apparently almost run him over with their car. As a person who walks or bicycles everywhere, I have had that sort of experience in which a motorist almost kills me, then parks nearby, and I follow them into the establishment and confront them about their careless driving that nearly cost me my life. Generally, all that I'm looking for is an apology, but the careless driver who almost killed me frequently is unapologetic. It gets nasty sometimes.

He called them a hurtful name. And yes, it was racist. But that didn't give them the right to assault him. It certainly didn't give them the right to assault him in numbers. It was pretty cowardly of them to attack one old guy with such numbers. 

I'm sorry that you don't like it, but name calling doesn't give anyone the right to assault people. Especially when it is several relatively young and strong men beating up some old guy. That's real brave, man!

I've had people call me a [sexual orientation slur redacted]. I've had people tell me that they fucked my mother last night. Angry people have said the most horrible things that they could think of to me. None of that has ever given me the right to assault anyone. The only time that I have ever assaulted anyone in an angry confrontation was when they initiated the assault-- they touched me threateningly, or spit on me, or did some other thing that was unambiguously an assault. Calling me names just doesn't give me the right to attack or counter attack. And if I lead a group of young strong guys in a group assault on one old man, I definitely belong in jail.

Sorry, dude. Your little band of 'heroes' are just a group of young guys who beat up an old man.

If anyone gets assaulted for calling someone the n-word, that's on them. There's a guaranteed way to avoid an assault for yelling the n-word, any guess as to what it is?

*raises hand frantically*  Ooo, I know, I know!!

Boru