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Old 09-10-2015, 08:05 AM  
RazorSharpe
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I was in Vancouver with my asian friend, and an asian driver cut him off and he blares out "STUPID FUCKING ASIANS LEARN HOW TO FUCKING DRIVE". Does that make him a racist?

People during road rage are in just that RAGE. They do, act and say a lot of stupid things. People who would never dream of acting out violence in their "normal" day-to-day sometimes act very very differently on the road.

It would be different if there was no pre-requisite to the crime. If the accused simply was walking around beating people thinking they are arab.

You're going to tell me this guy was driving around, peeking into windows while cutting random cars off waiting for a bin laden look-a-like? That doesn't even sound plausible.
No, what I am saying is thought he saw a Bin Laden look-a-like and decided to try and fuck with him by cutting him off. That scenario is highly plausible. I'm not suggesting it is what happened and I hope I'm wrong because I sincerely want to believe the best of the people I share the planet with.

At this stage however, the only thing that is fact is neither of us knows what really happened. We can sit here and argue about this till we're blue in the face, but the bottom line is, we don't know anything past what the media is reporting.

Thanks for being civil in this discussion; it's very appreciated.
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