Woah, big difference!
Yes it is.
Woah, big difference!
Woah, big difference!
It's an acceptable difference, as far as I'm concerned.
Why? "I didn't call you stupid. I said you're behaving stupidly" has never been convincing. It's just a way to call people stupid without actually saying it. Same here.
Because normally sane people can lose their rag and do one off thuggish actions.
Nobody ever calls something like that a "thuggish action". You're paying lip service to the notion that calling him a thug was a bad idea while continuing to do so under false pretense.
But if it makes you personally feel better I can keep with the thing I said and then changed after thinking about it, that you don't accept
He is a thug.
Does that make you ffeel better?
It doesn't make me feel anything either way, but as I suspected, it sure makes you feel better to say it.
Of course now you have to accept whate comes with it.
Several have suggested that. I disagree with that entire concept though, which is a rather large part of this discussion - whether or not really, really mean words should be seen to justify physical violence in response.
People from different countries have different perspectives. You regard calling someone the n-word to be just using "really, really mean words", I call it "racial vilification".
In many parts of Europe, racial vilification is a criminal offence. In this country, our government is in the process of taking the hate speech statutes in the 1993 Human Rights Act, and putting them into the 1961 Crimes act. Racial vilification would then carry the punishments of a fine up to $50,000, or a maximum of three years imprisonment, putting hate speech punishment in the same league as making a false declaration or assault with intent to injure.
If this Cook scumbag did in this country what he did Dunkin' Donuts, it would cost him a lot of money and/or jail time.
So do you think this is justification for the worker to punch the bloke 50 years older in the head?
Is that what you gleaned from my post? Really?
Yes
I think most people know that the n word has different consequences depending on location.
But this is kind of irrelevant to the thread.
You obviously think it isn't. So is this because it is some sort of justification or cause for leniency when this bloke gets jailed for hitting the dude 50 years older than him in the head?
It is a genuine question, not taking the **** or anything.
Dead dude has been identified.
One sick ****** up piece of **** tbf, so no great loss from that side of things.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/05/25/victim-in-fatal-tampa-dunkin-punch-case-identified/
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Edited by zooterkin:Edit for rule 10.
Don't use abbreviations to evade the autocensor.
Sorry, I'm just not seeing how explaining to Emily's Cat that my perception of the seriousness of using the n-word apparently differs from hers, somehow translates to me thinking Pujols was justified hitting the old guy.
Let me make this plain for you...
1. The fact that I regard Cook as a vile, kiddie fiddling, racist POS does not mean I think Pujols was justified in hitting him.
2. The fact that I can understand why Pujols was angry, does not mean I agree with his violent reaction.
3. The fact that I don't I agree with Pujuls' violent actions does not mean I am the least bit sorry that Cook is dead. He was a paedofile, one of the worst types of scumbag criminal in existence.
One shotted a racist child molester/pornographer? Hell, the city should be throwing him a parade, not putting him in prison.
Exactly nobody at all in the thread thinks Pujols should not face the legal consequences of his actions.
If you say so.
I see a lot of attitude change over the past few days. It's mildly interesting to me, but this story really isn't. It's a slam dunk. Everything people here are debating means nothing in this case.
If you say so.
Since his sexual encounters were with men over the age of 16 (according to this article)