re: Dunkin’ Employee Fatally Punches Man who Used Racial Slur, Charged and Sentenced

I’m not suggesting lock him away forever but they did nothing to him.

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Meh, he's a 27 year old without a criminal record who was employed at DD. He strikes me as the type to have regret and learn plenty from this, but maybe I'm wrong.

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You may be right, but there's nothing in the article indicating any of that. They simply suggested he was young, when at 27 he'd be in the prime of his athletic career as a professional athlete if that was his thing...and that the sounds the old guy made were so horrendous that it basically warranted this kind of reaction.

The second part of the that scares the living shite out of me. Not because I'm white, but because I actually fully believe in free speech. I don't think there are any magic words, or words so bad that merely uttering them means the likelihood of being killed. No one should be given carte blanche ability to attack anyone because they said words you don't like. But this was the inevitable conclusion of "silence is violence." If simply remaining SILENT can be declared violence towards another, then that person attacking you is no longer an attack it's DEFENSIVE! So clearly having the audacity to say "the word that shall not be uttered by whitey" is grounds for being killed.

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In a reasonable world nobody thinks Pujols is a genuinely bad actor and nobody thinks the old cur is a true victim.

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I think the old guy was probably a shite head and a racist. I think the 27 year old man who hit him let the fact that we've basically said it's ok to do so if certain sounds are made cloud his judgement and he hit an elderly man causing his death. So yeah, the elderly a-hole is the true victim here and the 27 year old man who hit him because he said something he didn't like is the bad actor. He punched and killed a 77 year old man who had not laid a finger on him...just said words at him.

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but in a vacuum, the punishment here is probably fine.

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Wow, I hope you never accidentally say something to offend someone. You could be murdered for it and half of you thing this is ok?

Where do you draw the line? Which words from which languages are acceptable to murder people for saying?