re: Old man gets clocked for being racist

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What words justify violence?

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I'm gonna kill you?

Words that carry intent are more than just words.

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Yet Chauvin charged with murder

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Chauvin had a lot longer to think about what he was doing.

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I'm gonna kill you? Words that carry intent are more than just words.

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I'm guessing you have never watched 12 Angry Men?

LINK

Not from the original movie but...

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I'm gonna kill you? Words that carry intent are more than just words.

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So if someone you have never met before says they are going to kill you and there is no weapons or act of aggression you can kill them?

I’d like to see that play out in court

Think about all the times you have jokingly told someone you would kill them. What if they didn’t take it they same way. Would they be justified in killing you?

How old are you. This is pretty basic common sense.

seems to me the old fella fricked around and found out

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It doesn't mean he should have been punched, but it does mean he's a hot-head piece of shite. Is that really difficult to understand?

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So in your mind he deserves the death penalty since they both were in the wrong? If that's true, the young POS deserves it also...right?

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Anytime there is a confrontation between a black person and an none black person these days, black folk ALWAYS say it was due to being called a racial slur.. It's a false cop out. Like children saying: "he made me do it."

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Bingo!

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and painting Pujols in the worst possible light. This is comical.

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Let's see..his actions did cause the old man to loose his life but the old man "dissed" him and that's a no no ! Do I have your concern correct?

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Lnchbx, or whatever the hell that vowel-challenged idiot's name is - he lives for outrage porn.

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You are so mad that you can't keep posts straight

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How do you know the workers said nothing rude to the old man?

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Are words enough to provoke violence or not? I’m confused by this argument.

Originally the general consensus of this thread was that the worker shouldn’t have punched the old guy cuz he called him a slur because words are not enough to excuse violence.

But now you are saying it’d be justifiable for the old man to go inside and continue the conflict if the worker was also saying rude things. The only reason the old guy would have gone inside was to fight the worker. Otherwise he would have just left and called the manager or something. If he went in there thinking he was gonna yell at a stranger without any repercussions then he was an idiot to begin with.

No, I’m not defending the worker and I’m also not defending the old guy.

I agree with the premise that words don’t justify violence but saying that the employee shouldn’t have escalated the situation cuz words aren’t a big deal and then saying that the old guy might have been justified in going inside cuz the worker used bad words is contradictory.