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originally posted by: whatmakesyouright
a reply to: netbound
Good points.
Somewhat of a comparison, we say that a female (or male, I suppose), when drunk, can not consent to sex. But any other drunk actions are not excused?
I'm not saying that raping a drunk female is ok, I'm just throwing this out there. In my younger days, I know I have been so drunk that I have done things that I would never ever think about doing sober. Luckily, none of those things negatively affected my life. Maybe punish him, but don't destroy his chance of a future. Maybe make him clean mosques as a community service for the next two years.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: whatmakesyouright
a reply to: netbound
Good points.
Somewhat of a comparison, we say that a female (or male, I suppose), when drunk, can not consent to sex. But any other drunk actions are not excused?
I'm not saying that raping a drunk female is ok, I'm just throwing this out there. In my younger days, I know I have been so drunk that I have done things that I would never ever think about doing sober. Luckily, none of those things negatively affected my life. Maybe punish him, but don't destroy his chance of a future. Maybe make him clean mosques as a community service for the next two years.
His idiocy shouldn't be excused, no doubt.
He said some ugly things, so did the drunken macaroni kid albeit ugly on a very different spectrum than this on.
So the question becomes, is this kid typically a bigot or did the booze just magnify an existing mistrust, something that is normally mild and controlled that becomes a monster when alcohol is added?
We all know the one person who is otherwise normal who becomes the angry drunk when they have that extra beer or shot ...
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: theantediluvian
What an idiot. He is lucky the cops didn't beat him to a pulp (let alone the husband and other guy restraining him).
He BIT an officer! I am surprised he still has his front teeth.
abcnews.go.com...
The woman was sitting at a table with her 9-year-old daughter when a man emerged from a nearby alley shouting racial slurs, as well as "white power" and "kill the police." According to the affidavit, the man grabbed the woman by the neck and forced her head onto the table, restricting her breathing while trying to remove her headscarf. The woman's husband and a passer-by dragged him off and restrained him on the sidewalk until police arrived.
The man spit in the faces of the husband and passers-by, threatened to kill them and arriving officers, tried to kick out the windows of a patrol car and bit an officer on the calf at the Monroe County Jail, the affidavit says.
originally posted by: Metallicus
A drunk and stupid college student....and we take him seriously?
Nope.
originally posted by: redoubt
a reply to: theantediluvian
Too much politics. Too much race. Too much religion.
We're all human beings.
originally posted by: TheBulk
Meanwhile liberals and left wingers are downplaying story about Muslim beating a white female flight attendant and threatening to blow up a plane.
It's also interesting how words of like racist and bigot only appear in stories where the perp is white.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: enlightenedservant
Lots of drunks physically assault people because they drank too much.
I am assuming the main reason this is news is because of the things he said while physically assaulting her.
Macaroni kid also wound up physically assaulting the manager of the food court, but that isn't why that story was news, either.
Drunks, particularly that angry variety, commit assault which is its own crime.
The newsworthy part is what they did that led to the assault or what they said.
originally posted by: selfharmonise
a reply to: enlightenedservant
"Our women".
Interesting choice of words.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: enlightenedservant
Oh, please! What do you mean "we don't know the problem exists." Every time someone looks sideways at anyone of any minority or perceived victim group, the media wastes no opportunity to scream "RACIST! BIGOT! HOMOPHOBE! MISOGYNIST" or any other epithet they can possibly weave into the narrative to add to what may have already occurred.
Maybe, people might care more if the press stopped making so much out of everything else that may not be a spade.