Happens every night in black communities across the land resulting in quite a body count year after year.
This instance more closely resembles this phenomena than it does some old fashioned face saving duel.
Its wrong by anyone's standard and it shouldn't be rationalized, excused or tolerated.
This particular instance may not fit into the narrative of appropriate response, although it is still a predictable response.
In baseball, if you commit an “insult” against the pitcher, you will sometimes get hit by a baseball, which is a deadly weapon that could theoretically kill you.
Some people in the beginning of this thread were ignoring race and simply discussing the general concept that if you get drunk in a bar and start hurling offensive insults at people, you are likely to get hit.
I’ve always said that here at FR, it is hard to have a good general discussion because too many people get wrapped around the axle with the specific story being talked about. It is like we need two threads for every good article, one where people can moan and backslap about the specific case, and another where we can have a discussion of the broader implications for society that are touched on by the story.
It is odd that as a pacifist (who won’t own a gun because I know I couldn’t shoot anybody with it), I’m on the “wrong” side of a discussion about punching someone.
But seriously — don’t any of you who say this is NEVER right ever feel like at some point, someone needs to just walk up to a liberal politician who is trashing our integrity, and simply punch them in the mouth?
Douglas Reddish, 25, was eating with his girlfriend when the man, who was reportedly drunk, stumbled to his table.This is in addition to the other statement quoted before. This was not the case of some teen black kid looking for trouble.Reddish reportedly tried to help the man regain his balance before he allegedly said, “This ni*ger wants to fight me!” Reddish did not take the insult well, knocking the man out cold with a blow to the face. The man fell backwards onto the concrete.
Yes, you should not punch people for calling you an offensive racist name. I still contend that it is understandable that Reddish punched the guy. It is only unfortunate that the guy was knocked out by that single punch, and he landed hard on the curb -- which btw is another good reason to never punch someone, because you never know how much trouble you are going to cause.
I wonder if those here would be less inclined to decry "violence" if the drunk was a black man, the patrons were white, and the black guy had called the white guy's girlfriend a whore.
Of if Reddish's girlfriend had slapped the guy -- because we do seem to be more accepting of women slapping men who make boorish remarks. Or maybe not -- maybe we are all sissified metrosexuals now.