silverbear;3314829 said:
Chuckle... yeah, the state of New Jersey is completely out of line for charging this kid...
Only if they charge him with anything other than misuse of private property, which would be perfectly reasonable considering the facts at hand.
Get back to me when he's convicted of a felony, instead of pleading guilty to a misdemeanor after a plea bargain, and getting a slap on the wrist... the worst thing that's going to ultimately happen to him is being publicly humiliated, and IMO that's completely appropriate...
No, being publicly branded a "racist" by race hustlers and reckless white liberals would probably be worse.
silverbear;3314873 said:
I see, only those who lynch Freedom Riders are racists...
Yeah,
that's what i said.
It was a minor incident, but the only ones trying to turn it into a "federal case" are you and bobby...
Really? We're part of the left-wing state media that relentlessly pursued this molehill of a story? News to me.
you might want to wait and see what he's officially charged with before you go off the deep end... for that matter, you might want to wait and see what he's actually CONVICTED of, since the state sometimes overcharges with the full intention of plea bargaining down...
I already said he should be charged for impersonating an employee and scorned by his community. What more do you want? Blood?
silverbear;3314880 said:
Racial insensitivity is the foundation of "stark racism"...
Really? Could have sworn it was
hatred. Keep lowering those goal posts.
silverbear;3314905 said:
Yes, they are... and I'm personally guilty of that level of racism, because I laughed at Richard Pryor...
And now we're laughing at
you.
But that is a fairly low-level, non-malignant form of racism that I think is present in most people... the kid in question upped the ante considerably from that...
Right. Must have been all those N-bombs he dropped on those poor, unwitting, shellshocked shoppers.
And FWIW, I'm not particularly proud to admit that I possess even that level of racism... perhaps that's why I'm so very revolted by what that punk kid did...
People in racist houses ...
silverbear;3314938 said:
Pal, you simply don't know what was in that kid's mind when he did what he did... you can only judge him by his words... his words targeted a specific race, which is racist...
Sending a group of people, in fact
any group of people, on a wild goose chase is "racist"? I think you just redefined the term, and not for the better. Far worse than this goes on in college admissions departments every damn day, yet the MSM can't be bothered. Lord knows what you'll be like when something
really racist goes down.
As I said before, he could have chosen to target "fat chicks", or "ugly people", or any of another, non-racial demographics for his "prank", but he didn't... he chose black people, a specific race of people...
Same question I posed to Theo: had he pulled the same trick on women, would you label him a misogynist? Just trying to gauge how fanatical you really are.
That choice made his actions racist... I have no idea if he's a casual racist or a full-blown white supremacist, but he has some level of racism in him...
I see you're in the soul-reading business like Theo. Seeing as how you're soooo insightful, you'd be much more useful to me if you could pick tomorrow's NCAA winners.
And because he chose to indulge that racist streak in such a public way, he now faces the legal consequences as provided by the laws of New Jersey...
Sorry, not a big fan of viewpoint discrimination, which is exactly what this is. Unless the kid put people in danger, as in yelling "fire!," then the state needs to butt the hell out.
silverbear;3314945 said:
Permit me to note that in your defense of the kid, you seem to be doing the exact same thing... you seem to be quite certain that he doesn't have a racist bone in his body, in spite of his actions, in spite of the fact you've never even met him...
Well, if they dig into his past or his online activities and uncover more of the same, then I'll gladly retract. Until then, I'll classify this as a spontaneous act of youthful mischief.
silverbear;3314951 said:
"Get out of the store, black people"...
The definition of racism offered in this thread, even if it came from a dictionary, is fundamentally wrong; racism doesn't necessary constitute a belief that your own race is superior to others (though it often includes that belief), racism is simply disliking or hating people of other races, simply because of their race...
Singling out a race of people and ordering them off the property is a racist act...
Period...
True, assuming he were an employee with the gall to do exactly that. Instead, he's just a kid who tried to inconvenience black shoppers. If that's "racism," MLK is rolling over in his grave.
P.S. How is it that R2A's innocuous thread about "South Park" gets deleted yet this one rolls on and on?
