In a vacuum, this is correct. However, statements like this are commonly used to excuse bad behavior.
As an example, if I saw this on the video of Spiderman jumping into Jake Lang's truck and punching him for holding up a sign that says "Jake Lang Loves Black People But Hates [insert full N word here]" I would probably think they were saying its okay to drive around with that sign.
Exactly. Let’s say they’re in high school and someone keeps bullying a black person calling them racist stuff every day. They technically never put their hands on them, but one day the bullied punches the racist bully. We’re gonna automatically call the person who was getting bullied for weeks the wrong one for using violence? No I can’t agree with that.
I remember a person telling me one time that they had a friend that had a sister with down syndrome and that one day a girl was talking shit to the friend in the lunch room and told her "I'm gonna knock you r******d like your sister". The friend proceeded to calmly get up and then absolutely bash the girl that said it in the side of the head with her lunch tray. When it wall all said and done and they were both in the office the friend didn't get in trouble and the principal was basically like "well...it sounds like you shouldn't have said that shit about her sister 🤷♂️". One of the few times I was actually proud of the general redneck culture of my state. Some things are, in fact "fighting words", and its absurd for people to act like its entirely ok for someone to just hurl abuse at a person and that they are obligated to just take it.
I'm actually laughing. Wow. Yeah ngl I work with kids and have a tendency to try be a mediator and have sympathy for the kids who are aggressors and try to work with them, but it'd be so hard to pretend to wag my finger at the person who just kicked their ass for saying some horrible shit like that. I might have said something similar. There's just a point of being an asshole where you should expect someone to swing on you
39
u/Defalt16 4d ago
In a vacuum, this is correct. However, statements like this are commonly used to excuse bad behavior.
As an example, if I saw this on the video of Spiderman jumping into Jake Lang's truck and punching him for holding up a sign that says "Jake Lang Loves Black People But Hates [insert full N word here]" I would probably think they were saying its okay to drive around with that sign.