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To punch the guy specifically in the "nuts" is indeed very unwanted sexual 'touching'.
My point is that racist insults directed at a single person where history has proven that, very often, white racists move from words to violent actions without time to react, can reasonably be considered "fighting words".
You really think a black person should have to just sit there and take racist threats when, very often throughout history, those threats were backed up with immediate violence? I mean, you lived through the 60s, right? They have every reason to feel threatened.
Would you give black (but not white) cops the right to beat people who insult them too?
Nope. Free SPEECH means FREE speech. A person hearing something they don't like can walk away. Unless, of course, you are a Police Officer, then you ignore it. Therefore, violent response to WORDS are criminal, and the person who does so should be arrested . what about "persons of color" spewing racial hatred to, I guess, persons without color, what I refer to as European Americans? Do the racial dynanics change the wrongness of the act in your mind ?
I go with the law.
Nope. Cops have weapons to defend themselves, and the right to use them when threatened. If a white supremacist is stupid enough to threaten a cop, they are already permitted to defend themselves.
Just enough to defend themselves. Using racial slurs pointed at a specific person is the same as getting in someones face and saying "hit me or I'll hit you".
Racists have a long history of backing up their words with violence. Thus, black people have every reason to feel physically threatened when a white supremacist spews racial "speech" at them directly.
It's not that I don't like the speech, which I don't. It's the history of white supremacists becoming violent without provocation.
But you've indicated that insults can be a threat.
We're all allowed to defend ourselves.
To ensure a clear understanding...
You have changed from EPITHETS to THREATS not the same at all. A violent response to a threat is also unwise, and Illegal, words once again. Didn't your mother ever tell you about "sticks and stones ". I was a Jr. Hi, High school, and college student during the 60"s. I began as a LEO in 1969. For what it is worth, I was raised in a family that considered all people equal. My high school had a few black kids, but there was never any racial incidents. Growing up in the Southwest, I was raised with Hispanics. MY first incident of being called terrible names because I was Anglo was my second day of college, and the garbage came from a black person whom I didn';t know or had had any interaction with. Since my school was eight there in the political arena, with sit ins, takeovers, and demonstrations. I learned to laugh at their hatred of me because I was Anglo, as well as their filthy words
White Supremacists are scum, but scum with rights.Violence from ANYONE should be totally crushed by the Police. That is how we did it back in the day. There are black supremacists, black and Hispanic hate groups, this BS is part of the human condition.
Well, they have a right to their feelings. Most of us, when we feel truly threatened, we avoid it. You are trying to excuse black instigation of violence because words make them feel threatened.THERE IS NO EXCUSE, unless they are actually attacked, then respond., black violence in response to words is no more acceptable than whites doing the same.
Defend themselves from what ? Words ? In my long career in law enforcement, I never had to defend myself from words. Racial slurs are exactly what they are, nothing more. They are ugly, wrong, disgusting WORDS. They are not an act of violence.
You are ignoring history. And, in the situations in question, "avoiding it" is not an option. Many people were unable to escape the protest clashes, and racists were picking out random, non-violent people of color.
I disagree. Because of the countless examples of racists becoming violent unprovoked throughout American history following the use of racial slurs, people of color have every reason to feel physically threatened when they are spewed at them personally.
Wow ... the minute it starts with a person wearing a "make america great again" hat and goes on to talk about BLM protests that weren't even in Charlottesville makes it all too apparent that this is the most biased, dishonest video of all time.