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Drunk Goldman Banker Knocked Out For Screaming Racial Slurs, In Serious Condition
As if the nation didn't have enough racial tension on the line with the Zimmerman trial about to leave many people on either side of the gaping racial/social/political divide very angry any minute, now the bankers are involved. And not just any bankers, but apparently ones from that universally lauded incubator of central planners, Goldman Sachs.
According to the Post, "a drunken man was punched out and sent to a hospital in serious condition last night after he yelled racial epithets at a couple quietly eating at a West Village burrito shop, cops and witnesses said. The violence went down at about 5:50 p.m. outside the Benny’s Burrito on the Greenwich Avenue and Jane Street. A black couple was sitting outside the Mexican joint when an intoxicated white man stumbled into their table. Douglas Reddish, 25, who was eating with his girlfriend, tried to help him regain his balance, cops said, and the wait staff came over to shoo the table crasher away.
“This nigger wants to fight me!” the belligerent man yelled, cops said.
Reddish knocked him out with a blow to the face, authorities said. "He was out cold. I thought he was dead," said Benny’s worker Robert Garcia.
A woman who spoke with the man before he was knocked out said he was upset over his wife leaving him and about his job at Goldman Sachs. But why would he be upset: has the market not been manipulated high enough to guarantee every banker in the US record high bonuses yet? "I felt so bad," she said. "He could hardly walk." By all appearances, the Dow will have to hit 20,000 before Goldman bankers are no longer upset about their 7+ figure bonuses...
In the meantime, and as so often happens, the man who punched out the banker was promptly arrested:
When Reddish saw that the drunken man was bleeding profusely he fled the scene, leaving his girlfriend at the restaurant, cops said.
Police arrested him shortly after and charged him with assault for attacking the man, believed to be in his 30s.
The angry white man was taken to Beth Israel Hospital, authorities said.
Well, if Goldman and its employees are really desperate to antagonize society and split it not only along wealth lines (Jamie Dimon is already lapping most in that regard with his "That's why i am richer than you" comment from several months ago), but add race to the mix, usually quite an explosive combination, then by all means keep on keeping on.
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Threat Journal Situation Update, July 13, 2013:
Florida Police prepping for possible riots. http://www.threatjournal.com/podcast/tj07122013.mp3
Racist comments advocating violence, looting, and rioting flooding social media sites: http://www.infowars.com/twitter-flooded-with-new-wave-of-riot-threats/
"At least one prominent member of the NBPP (New Black Panther Party) won’t likely take part in post-verdict public gatherings: King Samir Shabazz (a.k.a. Maruse Heath), who infamously incited a federal probe for voter intimidation after he brought a billy club to a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008." http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/12/new-black-panther-party-tweets-about-street-maneuvers-surrounding-zimmerman-verdict-high-chance-of-rebellion-if-acquitted/
The following video depicts Shabazz/Heath making violent declarations against whites.
"Hear whats i'm say'n ... some peoplz have ta kill some Crackers!" -- Shabazz/Heath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2QWDkUVEFDA
If people riot, I don't care what color their skin is, because they feel they have a trumped up excuse to riot, I hope the police shoot them dead. Rebellion is its own reward. If you want to go out and be stupid for something you don't honestly care about (because really, there are 28,000 kids dying of preventable starvation this day and you never lifted a stick for them) then I hope you go out stupid
Probably a good idea for ole Shabazz to stay the fuck out of Florida...most of us carry.
Actually I kinda hoped he would show up, gators need to eat too...
True dat...and sharks & crabs too ;-)
Well, that's likely to leave a mark. Serves the prick right for being an elitist fucktard in the first place.
He got exactly what he deserved,Raycisssssss bitch.
Nigger isn't racist anymore though right? No more than "cracka", right? Right??
Corzined>
"the drunken [GS] man was bleeding profusely...."
No worries. They all have a blood funnel.
You know that was some taxpayer's blood, not his, right?
They may not have "AAA" positive in the hospital blood bank.
Down goes bankster, Down goes bankster!!! Fasby'd in the early stages of the first round !!!
this mis-match brought to you by Kneegrows against drunk racists !!!
Cant he just say the guy fell onto his fist?
He hit my hand with his face.
Thanks for injecting your usual levity into this tense race baiting sideshow.
It's a good start.
Brilliant minds think alike !!!
Thank you sir may we have another?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23282168
A woman described as a Saudi princess has been arrested in California and accused of human trafficking.
--BBC News
This is a good start...
Jinx!
shouldn't it be three strikes and you're out?
@Hulk: The bulldog mouth/pekingese ass predictable outcome paradigm rears it's ugly head yet again. lmao
this article is highly suspect. "A black couple was sitting outside the Mexican joint", everbody knows- black people don't eat mexican food !
Says the guy obviously not from the southern/Western half of the WORLD...
I think he meant they don't eat pussy.
(Did I just say that out loud?)
Go wash your fingers out with SOAP !!!
I deserve it, maybe Halle Berry can teach me what a naughty boy I've been ;-)
I'm a Selma Hayek man myself.
Austrian economist? </sarc>
Female, just my type!
Hooyah !!!
See, this where black people are programmed to be too sensitive. Had someone called me a cracker or a mick, I woulda just laughed.
"World goin one way, people another yo" - Poot from Season 4 of The Wire
Hard to imagine why they might be senstive to whites yelling racial slurs at them.
His name is Angry Black Man With Killer Right Hook.
Say it reverently. He'll be sued into Georgia. Wish I had his balls!
Goldman will pay this dude 100k to go to public speaking engagements on racial sensitivity training. they will march out the banker like a puppet and he will explain how wrong he was to say what he said and the black guy will explain he was wrong to do what he did and they will both hug while the camera's flash.
payday bitches.
A summit! That will heal all! Slainte! +1
I'm not excusing the POS GS employee, but the fucker was obviously blind drunk & pretty incoherent. Had he or anyone for that matter walked up and started yelling racial slurs while sober, then its a different story. What we have here is a douchebag banker shooting his mouth off, nothing more, nothing less.
With respect, you weren't present at the scene, and it's not possible to discern whether they felt physically threatened. From another report:
"Police said a drunken man, who was white, stumbled over and reportedly pelted the couple with racial slurs.
As quoted by witnesses to the New York Daily News, the man said, “You n***ers are why I lost my job.”
"Pelted" with slurs, etc. I'm not sure how many people would be able to show restraint under similar conditions.
Unfortunately, Reddish plays right into the stereotypes about his race. He is called a name. Names will never hurt you -- remember that from kindergarden? He resorts to violence way over the top for such a small offense.
One more example for the racists who already believe blacks are out of control animals prone to violence. Sad.
It's laughably ignorant to imagine that a high percentage of whites wouldn't react similarly if the tables were turned. That doesn't make resorting to violence excusable, but under the circumstances, it is not at all difficult to understand.
Furthermore, as I stated above, you have no idea whether Reddish felt physically threatened.
Sticks and stones
Unless you are part of a protected class...
Then violence is justified?
Ok
But you won't like how playing by these rules ends up.
I want you to hit me as hard as you can.
How did Poot not die? Seriously. Maybe it was a commentary on how keeping your head down and playing dumb is actually a good survival strategy in these times.
But...but....what's the name of the perp?
"His name was Douglas Reddish"
It just always has to be about color doesn't it?
Uh, Reddish was the correct one here. He did the knocking out of the Golum Sachs employee. He was being verbally assaulted and harassed. Perhaps he fears for his safety prior to throwing the punch. Self defense doesn't mean you can't go on the offensive if you feel threatened. Maybe the other douchebag will think next time before drinking too much and going off on a rant which makes others feel unsafe. Perp's name was never mentioned that I saw.
I'll assume you were being sarc Ms.
He was taken to Beth Israel hospital. I'm sure this will be spun as one of the chosen being assaulted by just another violent black man. I just found it interesting the GS employee's name wasn't used. Seems like the NY press is afraid to mention it since it involves such a stellar "American" company.
Another story reported the drunk racist asshole bumped into their table, while the "perp" tried to help him keep his balance. Then the "good guy" proceeded to tee off in a racist rant prior to getting knocked the fuck out. I'm sure this will be promptly and correctly reported in Ynet.
One more point, if I'm out with my GF and out of the blue I'm being verbally assaulted and harassed, I'll fear for both our safety and take appropriate action. Guy should consider himself lucky that getting knocked out is all that happened to him.
I agree. I was doing a fightclub, project mayhem thing.
When you go down, maybe die, fighting bankster scum, all of us here on ZH would gather at a service for you and each say, "His name was Colonel Klink." Before that, you had no name.
Hahaha, ok. Thanks Ms. Long live Klink!
"One more point, if I'm out with my GF and out of the blue I'm being verbally assaulted and harassed, I'll fear for both our safety and take appropriate action."
Word.
I want to contribute to his defense fund.
Chaim Witz, is that you?
Evil twin.
Just a few hours too late to be the lead Feel Good Friday post.
Awesome story! (I apologize in advance for the Zimmerman Sh!t...)
Don't fuck with the muppets when there eating.
Need to start a defense fund for the guy. Oh yeah, and get him a medal.
Let's see if Obama feels the need to weigh in on this one!
Let my people eat !!!
Awesome, I would have to have his back on that one!
Otherwise, their knees won't grow !!!
"don't look at the camera! keep moving! keep moving" (h/t Apocalypse Now.)
Another teachable moment calls for another beer summit at the White House. Maybe Obama can make it a foursome and invite Edward Snowden so all current misunderstandings of the day can be solved in an afternoon.
Ah, finally. A feel-good story on ZH.
I know I would feel a whole lot better if I slugged a banker in the face.
And I'm the non-violent type, too. I will make exceptions, though.
too bad the dude ran away...especially with his girlfriend there. man...that's definitely good for sex points. needless to say if he waited for the cameras to show up and proclaimed his guilt in the matter, offer profuse apologies, etc. indeed he had the opportunity to attend to the man's wounds to show his "kinder/gentler meme". nay, veerily. he did what all the rest of of us would have done and "made a run for it."
well, let your wallet do the fighting for you.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legal-defense-fund-for-douglas-reddish...
What do you call a Goldman SacKs Banker lying in the street in front of Benny's Burrito?
An orgasmic speed bump.
"Honey, I gotta back up and do it again!"
If your going to be arrested for knocking out a banker, might as well go all the way and blow their brains out.
The Hero probably didn't reallize who he was knocking the shit out of, or he would have--and he has silver ware. He could have decapitated the scumbag and made a few tacos de cabeza...
Whoo Hoo. Shows what real world is all about Bitch. Now get away from the fucking banking shit and see what the world is made off.
Good story Tyler.
The Zimmerman Trial is all about whether non kneegrows have the right to defend themselves when a kneegrow attacks them
Zimmerman is part Kneegrow, phucktaard.
LOL, Kneegrow, yur killin me MsC !!!
lol...if we had a race-baiting President he would look like this:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2013-07-12-Tweet-of-the-day-crop.jpg
Z has some black blood? WTF! Better tell Rev. Al, Jesse & Eric Dickholder who PAID FOR the marches.... break it to courtroom attendees and god-knows-who ahs death threats on jurors..... [just spoutin' off]
Sure does, there is a discussion about it over in Wiki. The journalists framing the story have a lot of responsibility for how this is turning out now.
The fact that he works for Goldman is irrelevant. He got knocked out for being an asshole and calling a black man a nigger. End of story.
No, the fact that he works for Goldman makes it sweeter. That he made a racist remark is irrelevant because he was already an asshole.
I hear you, but dunno. You can't get me drunk enough to treat someone like that. Course I'm kind of a happy drunk (I never have understood the violent drunk, at all). The racism spewing out of this guy, you can be sure it is spewing out of the rest of that nasty, useless, arrogant, banker culture too.
Our guy who punched him out is not the hero we want him to be (he did not know he was a banker, was even trying to help the guy out), but IT IS A GREAT START.
HEY BANKER FUCKS, YOU ARE ON GODDAMN NOTICE!
There really was no right in this case. The Angry White Guy may have been clumsy, belligerent and an asshole but he wasn't violent. When the Angry Black Guy decided to become violent he became the bigger asshole.
When society says it's alright to become violent just because you justify your violence based on your anger "rating" or "source" then everyone will justify their violence, maybe like this Zimmerman case, for any reason.
Everyone wants to punch someone out some time but what makes us different from "lesser" animals is that we as humans can keep our emotions in check (or are supposed to be able to because clearly that is not always the case).
Not all speech is free.
It cost Paula Deen $17M/yr and this guy some brain cells.
The NSA is also making all of us consider the costs before we exercise our free speech rights.
Unfortunately our society is weakened when individuals or the establishment are too sensitive to handle cfriticism or insults and resort to violence or tyranny.
Don't post racial slurs on Twitter. Twitter sells out people accused of racial slurs.
If I stumble upon other people's tables while I'm drunk, I usually feel ashamed and apologize instead of insulting them for trying to help me stand up. Guess that's what "normal" people do.
That bankster phuck deserved to be taken down from his high horse. Period.
What people "deserve" and what is right, legal or moral are not the same thing. You can't claim to want a nation of laws and then claim to have vigilante rights as well.
I would guess that most people road rage and scream their heads off in their own cars yelling epithets of every kind but they don't just run people off the road even though many "deserve" it. Most people that I see drive don't "deserve" a license but they have one.
Perhaps I am just used to ignoring people because I realize the vast majority are assholes and not worth my consideration.
You are correct in the reality I would like to live in with you, but don't you see? The rule of law is GONE! You and I stay in line because we would like to live in that world, but the truth is we don't. This is what makes us sheep who keep getting shorn and slaughtered. I know you know this and don't mean to be condescending at all. It is barely holding together.
You are so right MsCreant.
I think what most don't realize is that it doesn't matter one iota if you believe in the rule of law and due process and live by higher moral standards if you live in an environment where the majority Doesn't live to those standards.
(try walking in practically any section of Detroit after dark)
You Will be hurt.
As the wheels come off this thing, (in a couple of years 2016ish) when people start to get Real desperate, when the Gov is forced to take your 401s and pensions and (for your benefit) turn them into Patriot Bonds (or some other excuse) things will go into retrograde very quickly.
Think of the effect if food stamps were cancelled. It WON'T be all nicey nice. Things are gonna get a lot more real for a lot more people.
Not looking forward to it, Just observing.
I think in passing that the guy must have missed some learning somewhere along the line. It's a common knowledge among most people that if you call a black man a nigger, you WILL get punched in the face.
Good, bad, indifferent. Don't matter.
You believe someone is breaking the rules, your very premise is based in the existence of a rule of law, or there would be no and never have been a Rule of Law. There is a Rule of Law and it must be enforced but because those breaking the laws are not being held accountable doesn't mean the people need to follow suit (although they seem to more often than not eventually do just that).
That being said it's obvious that humans get pushed to the breaking point time and again throughout human history. It would seem quite easy to see that it usually is a reaction against a small ruling group who have one set of rules from the rest of the masses.
I have no illusions about reality - the reality is there is a set of rules and those breaking the biggest laws are free ato continue doing so. There are still rules until everyone else decides there aren't anymore.
I guess my point is this is our world and at some point the rules get enforced but it's usually catastrophic. It seems to be a pretty regular natural cycle with humans too. Fortunately it is often seperated by generations.
All is relative, my friend. "Entitled" assholes like our KO'ed example (or this douche) can screw entire nations while they're on their workplace, but one wrong step/move/word out in the wide world can be detrimental to their health.
As for people's reactions, they're impossible to predict which I guess you're familiar with if you've read Hayek. Thing is, we all have different triggers and different thresholds of the reptilian "fight or flight" response. You can pretend all you want to be chilled out and ignorant of all the assholes around you, but I doubt that you've never experienced a gut-wrenching moment that tenses every muscle and instinctively clenches your fists...
And by the way, I don't need no stinkin' nation of laws because to me it's nothing but legalized repression. Natural laws work fine just the way they are.
TYLER: This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're gonna go out, you're gonna start a fight with a total stranger...(pause, drooling blood)...You're gonna start a fight and you're gonna lose.
[we see a montage of Fight Club members trying to pick a fight]
NARRATOR: [voice over] Now this is not as easy as it sounds. Most people, normal people, do just about anything to avoid a fight.
Agree. But we are devolving back to cavemen, who don't use their brain, just brute force. Look around, most are worried about getting "dissed" and can't wait to "kick someone's ass" because of it. Importance is placed on the superficial and physical, and very few desire to better themselves through learning. We are officially an Idiocracy.
This....was a Fight Club homework assignment if I ever saw one.
"This week, I want you to start a fight...and I want you to lose."
Tyler's words coming from my mouth.
If it was, fucking bravo, Mr. Banker guy. Bet you pissed ur Italian jeans too.
Maybe project mayhem has a mole in the squid?
I'm kind of a happy drunk, too -- at least until I start to sober up.
No violence, just like to sleep it off or read ZH.
What do you call a knocked out banker?
A good start.
Throw that guy in the meat wagon, and harvest his organs on the way to the hospital!
I don't know about that, he was prolly goin thru withdraws of some sort and could'nt get high enough off of the liquior. And so he went off the deep end, as will anyone with his poisonous parts, injected into them. And I don't trust no doc either.
Take it from me, between the hooker and blow you don't want those organs. Personally I'd just toss him in a meat grinder until he resembled pink slime and slip him into the lunch special at the GS cafeteria.
Miffed;-)
That quote sounds more like Goldman's CEO discussing a conversation with Obama.
Where's Chapter 5, Galt? You've had 48 hours.
:-) :-)
Illustrates the caliber of people that Goldman hires.
The first qualification for being an asshole banker is...you have to be an asshole.
Yea but why did you have to ben dover for him?
It's all in the Code of Federal Regulations. CFR Section 666(1)(a): "in the event you are of African descent, and in the further event you are referred to in anger as a 'nigger' or other epitath by a banker of Goldman Sachs or likewise, you shall ask said banker whether he prefers high polish or mild polish on his shoes. In the further event that you respond instead with an act of defiance such as to yell 'fuck you you fucking banker,' you shall have committed a Class C Felony against a Banker. In the further event that you respond with an act of violence (real or imagined), you have violated Section 3.112 of the Patriot Act and shall have committed an act of Terror as defined further in said Act, and shall be subject to immediate rendition."
That's not true. The regulation is written but it won't be implemented for another 7 years
Umm, and what the fuck does this line mean??
In the meantime, and as so often happens, the man who punched out the banker was promptly arrested:
This implies it's ok to punch someone out, and put them in serious condition because they said a bad word? Life is not fucking TV and you can die or be badly injured from the fall after being knocked-out like this, even moreso in a restruant where you can hit a table on the way down.
So, here's a bad word for whomever wrote this article: Fuck You
You can wash that sand out of your vagina with vinegar and water. Works like a champ.
I'd normally agree but it seems there is one set of laws for us, and a different set of laws for the TBTF class. While it is not a dead on enactment of, oh say, an individual losing their house, then getting charged on their taxes as if it was a capital gain, while the TBTFers get to sell the house, take the loss on their taxes, and get bailout funds to cover the loss; no it is not a dead on enactment of that, but it sure smacks of it. The banker gets to be a drunk and disorderly fucktard with no consequences that I have heard of yet for his actions. Our boxer is arrested after he is provoked. Some stuff, you just don't press charges for. I expect to get hit if I call a black person "nigger." Why the fuck do that? In any other playground, you break the kids up and call it a day.
Hey, maybe this was really an attempt at "Suicide by black guy." You know, like suicide by cop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsX1eUcHADc
I say its 3 days before Sharpton and Jackson are holding rallies shaking down GS in front of their West St offices...
That is why they have a private police force called the NYPD
That would be lovely.
The moment they do Goldman will destroy their positions. Jackson, Sharpton and their ilk have made a lot of money in the race shakedown business. They aren't about to jepordize it shaking down the squid.
Remember kids, violence solves everything. No, it really does. Just ask everyone's favorite dictator, Josif Stalin, who famously remarked: no man, no problem. The recipe was slightly different in this case, but the principle applies. The American black man understands this truth.
Referencing Joe Stalin in a discussion about a sidewalk fist fight: priceless.
Look up "Disturbing the Peace". Drunk has no defense to calling out epithets in a public place. Laughable demonstration of the cream of the crop attitude.
The black man who punched this motherfucker should be very afraid.
The Goldman Sachs lawyer mob will legally lynch him in the name of "justice".
You just not punch a squid tentacle and get away with it.
No wonder his wife is leaving him. Stay classy, Goldman Sachs.
Leaving his girlfriend, maybe she wanted to finish her slurp. Did the staff give a statement to the police? Were they even asked? Me i never would have fled or accepted arrest until lifeless. Fuck that!
I hope it was Mike Tyson.
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
Every guy has a plan, till they get a knee to the balls.
Is there a legal defense fund set up for Reddish we can donate too?
actually, there is now...and i fully expect all you GS haters to jump on board.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/legal-defense-fund-for-douglas-reddish...
It would have been TOTALLY cool if his name happened to be William Zanzinger.
Hattie Carol
If the Gov could sell tickets to punch Lloyd ""The 'Roid" Blankfein in the face for $5,000 each... we could easily start up the Obunga-jungle WH tours again... IF they have finished fumigating?
Hope it was the guy who sold me BA puts Friday
I hope he dies. Too bad it wasn't LORD b..
According to another witness, here is the sequence of events:
White: “This nigger wants to fight me!”
Black: Whatever
White: I'm a Goldman Sachs, bitch
Black: [punch to the face]
Absolutely the most perfect response !!!
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Doug
Yup. In the event of a fight... The police will just arrest everyone and let the courts sort it out. i.e. put another way... Because they can afford it, the privileged, the wealthy get to beat people up. That's assuming they're capable of course.
If Obama had a son, he would look like the banker.
Chubanka
I'll have the ... DUUUCCK!
don't start none if you don't want none
goldman guy forgot his goldman gun
He has a powerful weapon. He charges a million a shot. An assassin that's second to none, The man with the goldman gun
"As if the nation didn't have enough racial tension on the line with the Zimmerman trial about to leave many people on either side of the gaping racial/social/political divide very angry any minute"
The difference is there is only one side threatening to " riot across the nation". The idiots will destroy their own neighborhoods all in the name of justice, whatever that is.
"The difference is there is only one side threatening to " riot across the nation"
That’s because there's only one side being squeezed. If the shoe were on the other foot, you would be threatening to riot too. Its not the cut-and-shut matter of agency you make it out to be. I have seen it many times all over the world; the people that claim to own the moral high ground will throw their saintly position out the window when the tables are turned(though in most cases their positions are far from saintly). Its just passive aggressive bullshit, but when the screws are tightened, the toys come out of the pram in the blink of an eye.
Who is being squeezed and how?
White guy shoots black guy for being a black guy at the wrong time and wrong place. That kind of squeezing. People are touchy about these things, its very subtle, you probably wont get it at the first go.
It's a single incident that was seized by the TPTB and media to distract the sheeple from the real problems that are accelerating our country into a third world hellhole. What about the 70 shot, 11 fatally over the July 4th weekend alone in Chicago and the "wildings" downtown? Not much of a mention in the national media, let alone local media. Also, you are presuming you know what Zimmerman was thinking, most likely because your favored news source told you.
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe1ScoePqVA (3:04)
sounds too much Onionistic
Too bad Reddish, of Golem Sacks, wasn't killed. Reddish is the one who should be charged with a crime - a HATE crime - this victim of Reddish's truly astonishing behavior, physically falling onto their table, while shouting racist rants directly meant for this unfortunate couple, sounds like an intentional tortious act to this legal mind, and "the black guy" should be able to sue the fuck out of Reddish. But, we all know that this ain't the way the United Stasi of Amerika works. If you're white, like me, you can get away with ANYTHING, criminally speaking. Had I been at that scene, I'd have kicked Reddish, the scum-bucket bankster, to death. No wonder this guys wife is leaving him. Who the hell wants a male role model like him to help raise the kids? Mrs. Reddish, I hope you take your soon-to-be ex to the fuckin' cleaners, et, bon chance!!
easy Malcom X......Reddish is the black guy
We all know that a good role model is the type if person who would kick a person to death simply because their character is so weak that they can't handle the words of a drunken asshole.
He didn't "kick a person to death," he punched him in the face in a bout of anger after being called a "nigger" who wanted to fight. There's a not so subtle difference. One of the things that is wrong with our society in my view is that people believe they can behave like the GS guy with no consequence because if you act like a human being and punch him, you're going to be hauled off to jail. The world would actually be more civilized -- not less so -- if a person could punch a guy in the face for behaving as the banker did especially given the racial slur.
My comment is reference to the above poster who implied a good role model for kids would be a person who would have kicked him to death. I prefer to teach my kids to be bigger than that. Violance is only warranted for defense.
I took it as a figure of speech in the above post, which you hijacked to make your point.
"Had I been at the scene I would have kicked that scum-bucket bankster Reddish to death. "
Is not a figure of speech. Again I say if your character is so weak that you can't stomach the words of a drunken asshole it speaks more about you than it does about the drunken asshole.
And if I " hijacked it" to make my point so be it. You may be okay with violence being the first order of business, I am not.
And again I say that one of our faults as a society is the idea that there should be no consequences of the "get punched in the face" variety for being a raving drunken bully and calling someone a nigger who wants to fight.