nope, he's the bad guys here because we live in a god damn society, one that has its very existence predicated on the idea of a social contract in which we collectively more or less agree to not wantonly murder each other all of the time.
Yes, and that social contract also says that we should not park in handicap spots when not handicapped and that we should not attack people on the street.
see, that's pretty much the only way civilization works, is if a vast preponderance of individuals agree to this and abide by it.
Could not agree more.
being shoved, even harshly, simply isn't one of them. trying to do the mental contortions necessary to justify how it ever possibly could be is detrimental to the fabric of civilization as we know it.
The problem is that you do not know what the other guy wants to do once he knocks you to the ground. That is a tactically very bad position to be in, and in this case, with Britney exiting the car, he was outnumbered as well.
when white people use the excuse that "well he was black and therefor scary and therefor i feared for my life and therefor it justified i murdered someone in cold blood because they shoved me" is the sort of mental contortions that are detrimental to the fabric of civilization as we know it.
Again you with the race! Any guy who knocks you to the ground like that is going to be scary. White, black or purple.
THAT is why he's the bad guy here, and why you're the bad guy here, and why everyone like you is the bad guy here - because you're actively trying to weaken the foundation of human society, which history teaches us inevitably results in the downtrodden eventually having enough of your shit and rising up one morning and going "oh, i guess we're cutting off everyone's heads today" and laying into the monied class. ever heard of the french revolution? wasn't that long ago.
What the hell are you rambling on about? Downtrodden? Who is the downtrodden? Are you assuming that McG and Britney are poor just because they are black? Or that Drejka is in power just because he is white? That does not follow.
as a comfortably affluent middle class white male living in an urban environment i am far more trepidatious of the threat of retaliation for the kind of bullshit your ilk is pulling than i am of random acts of illegality from a neglected lower class acting on base human greed.
Cool story bro.
in every universe wherein sane and practical homo sapien life expectancy is observed.
47 is not old in absolute terms. Not in this universe at least.
He is significantly older than the 28 year old who attacked him. Doesn't that give him all the more reasonable fear for his life?
nope that would be my "asshole standing around yelling at people for stupid shit at a 7-11" prejudice.
Handicap spots exist for a reason. Why couldn't Britney have parked a few spots over? None of this would have happened save for that initial assholish move.
it isn't. murdering someone is worse than giving someone a brisk shove, however.
It is not murder. If the SYG proves unsuccessful, I predict manslaughter is most he'd be charged with.
see here's the problem with your "argument": your entire perspective is based on the idea that human life has some kind of intrinsic and inherent value, and that human property by association has inherent moral value as a consequence of being owned by humans.
I care little about philosophical terms like "inherent value". When you rob a store, you are not a gentle giant. When you attack a police officer, he has a right to defend himself. Likewise when you knock somebody to the ground.
however, you pick and choose which humans get to have this inherent value willy-nilly based on their skin color and/or inconsequential action (notably regarding other white people's property) - you have a pretty obvious hierarchy of ethical standards.
Bullshit. You are projecting. It is you who decides right and wrong based solely on race of participants.
as noted above, this "argument" only works from the foundation that a black man's entire existence is of less inherent value than a white man being shoved, violently or otherwise.
Bullshit!
