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

[Yonadav]

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.

Now hold on there, Thena. I have not adamantly said that the guy didn't mean his racist slur. He might have. I don't know. I know that people say horrible things when they are angry-- both black people and white people. Black people have called me horrible names, and I have never assaulted any of them for it. So I'm sorry, but I don't see this white guy who said the racial slur as being any different than the black people that I have heard using racial slurs. It's the same thing, and I wish that everyone would knock it off.