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[TheOfficeMut]

What I really hate about this country is that minorities are never given the benefit of the doubt. They have to be extra careful not to be rightfully confrontational because even if they are provoked, they'll be raked through the coals for self-defense by the media and police. White people on the other hand are automatically given the benefit of the doubt, even if they're the ones starting shit. It's an unfair double standard that makes minorities have to show considerable more restraint against people looking to oppress them. It's infuriating to see.

It's the same shit with BLM and anti-Trump protests. They're expected to be consistently well-behaved. But if any one person slips up and acts out of aggression, the entire movement is slandered. When you look at the other side, however, you see the white nationalists and Nazis given a different standard to follow. They can be provoking, aggressive and outright violent but their bar is so much lower.

People call BLM a violent group, when they're considerably more peaceful than their counterparts. Yet if someone acts up in this group, the media and every fuckwit wants to act surprised and appalled that someone had the audacity to incite violence, thereby condemning them. So which is it? Is the group violent or not?

There's no god damn way to win. If anyone has a right to respond violently, it's minorities, but they're not, yet they're still paying for it as if they are because of the actions of the very people administering violence against them. It's god damn crazy to see. Damned if you, damned if you don't.

In many ways I am actually ashamed of being white living in the U.S.

 

[Shaanyboi]

He's not saying it shouldn't have happened. He just laments some of the negative outcomes for POC (which is fair to feel bad about if there are any).

Those negative outcomes were going to happen anyway. POC were always at risk of this shit. One shitbag getting his face beaten wasn't going to change that.

 

[Sai-kun]

While you guys are cheering on the physical assault of a racist you may not be realizing that this sort of thing, especially going viral, feeds into their narrative that black people are violent thugs and helps them.

Beyond that, I can't really see what happened and am just going by what the tweet says, but I don't think beating someone up for calling you names is the correct course of action.



I don't feel bad for the shit starter, but I'm not going to cheer on someone physically assaulting someone else because it didn't solve or help anything. It may be cathartic for some, but it's equally motivating to the alt right side

The alt right does not and has never wanted to peacefully coexist with black people and LGBT people and women (of color) and non-christians and other minorities.

They've never been peaceful and some fuckboy getting his head kicked in isn't going to change their ideology. Everyday single one of them deserves to get the shit beaten out of them every single god damn day.

 

[capitalCORN]

If there's a general sense in the culture that violence is escalating then that can result in greater escalation. Again, all I'm saying is that it's fair to be concerned about that as long as you agree that the beatdown was merited.

Dipshits will dipshit, Don't start making excuses for them.

 

[Jobbs]

People call BLM a violent group, when they're considerably more peaceful than their counterparts. Yet if someone acts up in this group, the media and every fuckwit wants to act surprised and appalled that someone had the audacity to incite violence, thereby condemning them. So which is it? Is the group violent or not?

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

 

[BriGuy]

I have all kinds of different feelings after watching that.

I'm sad that society is in a place where some asshole feels like he can openly attack a guy just because of the color of his skin. I'm happy said asshole caught a beating for it. I'm relieved that it ended without anyone getting shot. And I'm worried that that may not be the case next time. And I'm depressed that there will be a next time.

 

[family_guy]

Probably true, but at least we didn't have to see them acting so boldly about it. They hid it, and they're not hiding it anymore. They're coming out into the open and acting out. Maybe a few beatings will send them back into their holes. I guess we'll see.

I actually appreciate them not hiding it. Not that I want them to be violent to others, but its nice to see someone's true colors.

 

[Fairfax Virginia]

that was exactly my point?


there's different levels of racist.

What a dumb thing to say. So what is the lowest level of a racism to you?

 

[Ivan 3414]

Where did the guy say the n-word. Was there any mention of the n-word in the video?

Because I am all for whoever saying it getting their ass whooped...but I didn't catch it in the video, which makes it seem like someone is manipulating the audience for views.

Looks to me like a video that went viral on WSHH because of the bullshit title they attached to it

 

[Bad_Boy]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

Youre forgetting a very important fact of who threw the first punch. Only one guy looks terrible to me.

 

[Stead Fast]

Genuinely, the only sympathy I have here is for the poor dude's knuckles. He laid the fuck into him there, that's gonna sting for a while. Got called the n-word, and now my hands are swollen on the racist's face.

And to reiterate the sentiment said too many times already in this thread: don't start nothing, and there won't be nothing.

 

[M.J. Doja]

Youre forgetting a very important fact of who threw the first punch. Only one guy looks terrible to me.

He will continue to ignore that fact.

 

[Enzom21]

While you guys are cheering on the physical assault of a racist you may not be realizing that this sort of thing, especially going viral, feeds into their narrative that black people are violent thugs and helps them.

Beyond that, I can't really see what happened and am just going by what the tweet says, but I don't think beating someone up for calling you names is the correct course of action.



I don't feel bad for the shit starter, but I'm not going to cheer on someone physically assaulting someone else because it doesn't solve or help anything. It may be cathartic for some, but it's equally motivating to the alt right side

The racist attacked him, was he not supposed to defend himself?
Also, regardless of what black people do, racist will still hate us.

 

[borghe]

My favourite part:

which part? where the chick who started it all pushes the orange shirt guy to get in the middle?

she is really the starring piece of trash in the whole video.. started the whole thing and tried provoking the orange shirt guy to get involved when the bald guy was clearly getting beaten. My guess is she reamed the orange shirt guy out when they got home and he is just like "yes dear, I am worthless. I know. "

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

that;s the thing, if you start shit up own to it even if you get your ass kicked

 

[borghe]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he was attacked first over something he didn't start. Everyone looks terrible.

ftfy. grow the fuck up. he was physically attacked and responded in kind. the girl shoved him through the door, then when he responded with words, eventually the bald guy threw the first punch. You are 100% off-base on this. again, grow up.

 

[norm9]

Love that he stops pummeling dude to point at his friend like you don't want none of this.

 

[RefigeKru]

defending the alt right and acting in their manner are two different things. Hell i work with undercover racists in the military. But i dont think they want me dead like a white supremacist/kkk member would.

I disagree but that's a damn shame. Every time I've come face to face with an actual racist who hates me because I'm black all I can feel is disdain for my person, my very being itself. I can easily imagine them wanting me gone, even if they don't have to do the work themselves. That's in the UK too, we're supposedly a bastion of tolerance and progress lol. I might be too blinkered and pessimistic right now to see as you do, but I'm trying to be hopeful - thanks for responding.

 

[Cake Boss]

Sooo looks like I was right in questioning the red shirt guy...

Sooo looks like you are just seeking some attention.

 

[Brinbe]

What every shithead racist deserves

 

[cordy]

What killed me is near the end old boy tried to pin him. Like I was waiting for a ref to pop up lmao.

 

[Lowmelody]

We should physically crush anyone who calls us names, yeah. That's my highest aspiration

Yeah, just callin names, that all it was.

Get to steppin fool.

 

[Osukaa]

Well deserved. If the government isn't going to police what is acceptable in our society, the people will.

Its sad that its come down to this but when your own president is a racist ass and when the police laugh and cheer when he makes jokes about police brutality then yeah the citizens who are tired of all this BS need to step up and handle things.

I hope the guy doesn't get in trouble as knowing the govt they're gonna say he's a terrorist or something.. smh...

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Sick of people acting as if we need to treat NAZIS with respect

 

[Gotdatmoney]

I don't feel bad for the shit starter, but I'm not going to cheer on someone physically assaulting someone else because it doesn't solve or help anything. It may be cathartic for some, but it's equally motivating to the alt right side

There is no problem that was suppose to be solved by this. Pretending like this shit was supposed to end racism is so fucking dumb. This was a guy that got a beat down because he provoked one. And everyone here is having a laugh at a white supremecist catching a beatdown for exercising his racism like a fake tough guy on someone and getting put in his place. Literally no different than on lookers laughing at a school bully get put in his place by his victim.

You are doing the worst shit sitting on the dumb moral high road "this is a slippery slope" none sense. No it really is not and you really are not making a valid point.

 

[JadedWriter]

"He dun bruh, he done bruh" I feel nothing for the man that got rightfully pounded on.

 

[capitalCORN]

We should physically crush anyone who calls us names, yeah. That's my highest aspiration

You must not know the difference between names and racial slurs.

While you guys are cheering on the physical assault of a racist you may not be realizing that this sort of thing, especially going viral, feeds into their narrative that black people are violent thugs and helps them.

Beyond that, I can't really see what happened and am just going by what the tweet says, but I don't think beating someone up for calling you names is the correct course of action.



I don't feel bad for the shit starter, but I'm not going to cheer on someone physically assaulting someone else because it doesn't solve or help anything. It may be cathartic for some, but it's equally motivating to the alt right side

Eating hits ain't going to endear you to the racist. And you'll always carry the stain that you were too cowardly to stand up for yourself and fight back.

That anthill you're standing on is no the high ground you think it is.

 

[commedieu]

ANAKIN NO!

 

[Kaako]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

Reads like you don't have a complete grasp on the situation/details and just came in to give us your hot take. You as a person can choose to stand there and do nothing while someone throws the most derogatory insults there is and SWINGS at you. However, I implore others to actually defend themselves like that fine gentleman did and rightfully so.

 

[bryehn]

"He dun, bro." "He dun, bro." "He dun, bro." "He dun, bro." "He dun, bro."

FTFY

 

[ISOM]

We should physically crush anyone who calls us names, yeah. That's my highest aspiration

You're making a dumb argument based on nonfactual information. Why is that? What fear do you have that makes you think people being violent with racists and Nazis is a bad thing. Please explain how that is a bad thing for society.

 

[King Gilga]

Nioceee.

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

Go fuck yourself.

 

[bobeth]

We should physically crush anyone who calls us names, yeah. That's my highest aspiration

What is this sarcastic comment supposed to mean? Given what's been brewing the last few days, you want people to stay quiet and go back to the status quo? Keep your head in the sand, see how things change then..

 

[Slayven]

We should physically crush anyone who calls us names, yeah. That's my highest aspiration

Now you are getting mad because people are calling you out for chastising a man for defending himself from an attack. You should reflect on that

 

[Brinbe]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT? JUST A NAME? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?

FUCK ON OUTTA HERE WITH THAT SHIT. You're either trolling or clueless. Either way, fuck off.

 

[Username1198]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

BOTH SIDES look terrible.............?

Edit you look terrible

 

[Cake Boss]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

The only one that looks terrible is your ignorant ass and the racists in the video.

just called a name? is that what you call it? fuck off!!

and yeah he should have just let the racist repeatedly punch him after he swung the first punch.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I don't condone violence as a solution to racism. That said, this was extremely cathartic to watch after the events this weekend.

 

[y2dvd]

We are gonna need that comic of the stick figure explaining freedom of speech means it gives you freedom from the government, but not freedom to get your ass beat if you say racists shit to individuals, and we are gonna need that comic as the first reply to everyone one of these threads about neo-Nazis.

 

[darklin0]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

 

[crisdecuba]

Those negative outcomes were going to happen anyway. POC were always at risk of this shit. One shitbag getting his face beaten wasn't going to change that.

In general, yeah those outcomes were going to happen anyway. I do feel that POC are at greater risk today than before the election though.

Dipshits will dipshit, Don't start making excuses for them.

Hah! You're reading me wrong. The blame lies squarely with the racists / white supremacists.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

While you guys are cheering on the physical assault of a racist you may not be realizing that this sort of thing, especially going viral, feeds into their narrative that black people are violent thugs and helps them.

Beyond that, I can't really see what happened and am just going by what the tweet says, but I don't think beating someone up for calling you names is the correct course of action.



I don't feel bad for the shit starter, but I'm not going to cheer on someone physically assaulting someone else because it doesn't solve or help anything. It may be cathartic for some, but it's equally motivating to the alt right side

I hope you are feigning naivety because this is ridiculous. The "alt-right," or more appropriately, white nationalists and Nazis, already find motivation in assaulting anyone who isn't white just because of their skin color, let alone a god damn fight in a Waffle House where you expect black people to continue showing restraint despite being repeatedly oppressed.

Crawl out of that hole.

 

[Gotdatmoney]

> Says he cares about black people
> Thinks being called nigger is just a name

Ayyyyy Lmao

 

[Chmpocalypse]

You don't need to log in to watch a video on Twitter.

Maybe it's different on mobile? I click a link, it takes me to the login prompt.

 

[Osukaa]

What I really hate about this country is that minorities are never given the benefit of the doubt. They have to be extra careful not to be rightfully confrontational because even if they are provoked, they'll be raked through the coals for self-defense by the media and police. White people on the other hand are automatically given the benefit of the doubt, even if they're the ones starting shit. It's an unfair double standard that makes minorities have to show considerable more restraint against people looking to oppress them. It's infuriating to see.

It's the same shit with BLM and anti-Trump protests. They're expected to be consistently well-behaved. But if any one person slips up and acts out of aggression, the entire movement is slandered. When you look at the other side, however, you see the white nationalists and Nazis given a different standard to follow. They can be provoking, aggressive and outright violent but their bar is so much lower.

People call BLM a violent group, when they're considerably more peaceful than their counterparts. Yet if someone acts up in this group, the media and every fuckwit wants to act surprised and appalled that someone had the audacity to incite violence, thereby condemning them. So which is it? Is the group violent or not?

There's no god damn way to win. If anyone has a right to respond violently, it's minorities, but they're not, yet they're still paying for it as if they are because of the actions of the very people administering violence against them. It's god damn crazy to see. Damned if you, damned if you don't.

In many ways I am actually ashamed of being white living in the U.S.

 

[FinalStageBoss]

Only way to deal with racists tbh

 

[Slayven]

> Says he cares about black people
> Thinks being called nigger is just a name

Ayyyyy Lmao

Why does being "the bigger person" for minorities involve getting our heads cracked in and thanking folks for the privilege?

 

[cirrhosis]

Maybe it's different on mobile? I click a link, it takes me to the login prompt.

Request the page in desktop mode. Works in Chrome

 

[crisdecuba]

I'm not seeing people act surprised and appalled. I'm seeing everyone cheer the idea of someone beating another person in the face because he got called a name. Everyone looks terrible.

You are wrong when you reduce what the man did to just being about calling someone a name. First, did you see that he threw the first punch? Second do you see the hundreds of years of context behind the word he used? Taking that into account, I would think you'd have a different door at least more nuanced reaction.

 

[T-Rex.]

A thoroughly deserved ass whooping. Can't lie, seeing racists get bodied is very satisfying.