(April 26, 2019 at 5:17 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(April 26, 2019 at 4:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Well he wasn't just "some old man". He was a drunken asshole and racist instigator.
Does that warrant the beat-down? No, not in my book.
But it doesn't evoke any sympathy from me.
He was a drunk who drunkenly decided to insult an entire bar of potentially drunk patrons at the last moment and got roughed up for his trouble.
Racist element aside, this is definitely the sort of shit my brain would normally file under Drunk People Problems.
Was he drunk? I don't know. Do you know that? He was angry. He was saying something about one of them nearly running him over.
I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for him either. His conduct was certainly disorderly. Racist instigator? I don't know. People use the most offensive words they can come up with when they are angry. That doesn't make them racist instigators. It just makes them angry people who are saying hurtful things. If he's a racist instigator, then so are a whole bunch of black people who say racist things about white people when they get angry. But I usually don't see them as racist instigators. I just see them as being angry people who are intentionally saying offensive things because they are angry.
His speech sounded quite drunk to me.
Though, the ignoring of insurmountable odds while screaming "You...Monkey-azz muhfuggin N**GER-azz!" into bar full of black patrons is kind of a dead giveaway too.
Of drunken bravado.
Anyhow, I'm quite comfortable concluding that this guy is/was a racist instigator, despite your adamance that he "probably didn't mean it". And how you view Black people's comments about white people is of no consequence in the matter. You were entirely too eager to create a false analogy earlier in this thread in mischaracterizing a reaction to racist acts as racism itself.
Makes it rather hard to take your musings on what's racist seriously.
