Did you watch the video? He was saying ‘’why’d you hit me N,’, ‘That hurt N’. I haven’t ever heard someone say it so much. He seemed completely unaware of what the issue was. (He said it in the place ‘man’ or ‘dude’ but it didn’t end with an a, but er and wasn’t being used insultingly although it was)
Last year I was among some young people at a sports event. One over-eager teenage white guy, who dressed and talked with a ridiculous, exaggerated urban “gangsta" image, kept using the N-word, as though he was best friends with everyone there.
A couple black guys in the group looked at each other like “do you know him?” Finally, one of them calmly told him to cool it with the N-word - we don’t even talk to each other that way.
They handled it well and the rest of us had a good laugh.
I may be wrong. But I think that was the guy swinging. Not the guy getting punched.
It’s only a word, granted, but it’s become profoundly significant over many generations.
I was raised by conservatives in the northeast and it was a forbidden word in the family.
There were other words that would also get my mouth washed out with soap, but that was #1 on the list. My family saw it as equally demeaning to the person it was directed to and the one who said it.
It’s a different world, and plenty of black people say it now, but that’s none of my business. I still don’t say it.
Because someone says something that upsets you you can attack them now. It doesn’t matter what he said that is no justification for attacking him.
The only one who was saying that word was the black man as he was hitting the man at least according to the close captioning accompanying the video.
Also at the top of the video it is written “White man gets attacked at mall for saying N-word behind black mans back”
If the victim had been saying that word throughout the beat down as you assert I think the wording on the top caption would be different.
At lease this is what I saw and heard.
Here is the video I am referring to:
https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/white-man-in-michigan-macys-beatdown-is-an-employee/
“Did you watch the video? He was saying ‘’why’d you hit me N,’, ‘That hurt N’. I haven’t ever heard someone say it so much.”
The black guys repeatedly uses the n-word. The white guy never once said it. NOT EVEN ONCE.
I think you need to take some Vitamin A and Zinc. It was clearly the black guy saying it.