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Racism caught on tape (NSFW) for starting car : White woman +kids vs Black male

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Dawg

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Speaking as a bipolar person, no, it's not just mental illness. It may be mental illness mixed with racism, but it's not just mental illness.

Also, the root of the problem for mental illness doesn't always go back to bad parenting. Quite often it simply goes back to bad genes.

I don't get the "bad parenting" card when people discuss a mental illness. I know it's not uncommon to develop something like depression from family issues but stuff like bipolar or OCD (which I suffer from myself) are generally more gene-related, no? Speaking from personal experience, I had no problem at all until "something got activated" once I turned 18. Other people have been suffering from it since birth.
 

OnPoint

Member
Yeah you're right i shouldnt generalize the upper portion of NY state which this place is in its near Buffalo.
And i said it because when i went up around that area for a school competition my parents went and one of the women from the school in front of her kids told her kids that in quote
"Look see here these people are niggers. They 're not gonna hurt you but thats what these people are they're niggers"
Moments like that in my life dont make me willing to want to go to any place above Westchester county which i never go to anyway.

Buffalo NY is in Erie County. It's considered Western NY. You're flat out, factually wrong.

Congrats on having spent some time here. I'm sorry you saw some stuff that wasn't great. I'm sure it's how everyone here is. Anecdotal evidence is absolute proof these days, I guess.

Racism exists everywhere. But keep trying to act like it doesn't exist outside of "upstate" NY though.
 

Amentallica

Unconfirmed Member
Welcome to the current state of this country. Sensitivity runs high these days. The lady was clearly upset and I am not going to judge her without knowing what set this all off.

This is some dumb shit. It doesn't matter what set her off because what she is saying/doing is wrong.

Is this difficult to grasp? Why would she suddenly be excused for her racist remarks if there was an initial wrong by the other party?
 

Vazra

irresponsible vagina leak
Huh? It's a fucking insult to everyone who lives in the rest of NY to be lumped with a few racist shitbags. How do you not understand that?

Ehhh how does people of Florida feel when people make fun when the shitbags do crazy shit? Gaf goes all the way to use the Bugs Bunny Meme and call that place many things without getting anyone banned.. You know you ain't racist? Don't get offended over it and move on. It's not a big deal like you are trying to make it to be pal.
 

Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
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Acerac

Banned
Cheektavegas represent!

...God I need to move.

*Edit*

Yech, I just watched the video; my comment was made after just seeing the title. None of this shocks me. It frustrates me greatly, but I am not amazed.
 

OnPoint

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Ehhh how does people of Florida feel when people make fun when the shitbags do crazy shit? Gaf goes all the way to use the Bugs Bunny Meme and call that place many things without getting anyone banned.. You know you ain't racist? Don't get offended over it and move on. It's not a big deal like you are trying to make it to be pal.

How can you not see the irony here, in this thread of all threads?
 

CrankyJay

Banned
Ehhh how does people of Florida feel when people make fun when the shitbags do crazy shit? Gaf goes all the way to use the Bugs Bunny Meme and call that place many things without getting anyone banned.. You know you ain't racist? Don't get offended over it and move on. It's not a big deal like you are trying to make it to be pal.

You're right, it's no big deal to generalize a group of people...carry on pal.
 

CrankyJay

Banned
Full disclosure, Raistlin and I work in the same office in Cheektowaga...we're not allowed in unless we drop some N-BOMBs or else they'll question our allegiance.
 

Vazra

irresponsible vagina leak
So stereotyping based on region is okay?


We're in a thread talking about how terrible she is for being racist. Do you not see the irony?

Gaf makes fun of Florida constantly now people will be defensive cause its NY? I mean I dont even make fun of the places but now you are getting extremely defensive over NY. it seems like double standards. If this video was taken at Florida people would be like yeah crazy people like everyone else in Florida post the Bugs Bunny gif and multiple people quoting the Bugs Bunny gif and have a laughfest. People are overreacting when worst has been said about many other places and no one gets offended over it or simply say SMH at my state etc.
 
Buffalo NY is in Erie County. It's considered Western NY. You're flat out, factually wrong.

Congrats on having spent some time here. I'm sorry you saw some stuff that wasn't great. I'm sure it's how everyone here is. Anecdotal evidence is absolute proof these days.

Racism exists everywhere. But keep trying to act like it doesn't exist outside of "upstate" NY though.

I didnt realize its considered western NY so i do learn something from that and i edited my original post cause i knew it wasnt helpful in anyway, and i'm willing to eat my words with my original dumb ass post.
I know racism exist everywhere, thats not even an argument thats fact, and of course not everyone above a certain point of NY is racist. Thats also pretty well known. I deal with it enough around the NYC especially Long Island area enough as it is. Not to mention the institutional issues that as long and still effects those areas, especially when it comes to the vast amounts of income inequality just a neighborhood by. You'll see people really struggling one neighborhood, and people with too much money to count in the next block over. It's something else.

I give the guy who made the video immense props dealing with the situation better than most people i know.
 

Yoshichan

And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Wow... she's switching up her story all the fucking time. Didn't she do live radio a couple of hours ago and told him he almost hit her kid with his car? And now she's saying this:

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Raistlin

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Gaf makes fun of Florida constantly now people will be defensive cause its NY? I mean I dont even make fun of the places but now you are getting extremely defensive over NY. it seems like double standards. If this video was taken at Florida people would be like yeah crazy people like everyone else in Florida post the Bugs Bunny gif and multiple people quoting the Bugs Bunny gif and have a laughfest. People are overreacting when worst has been said about many other places and no one gets offended over it or simply say SMH at my state etc.

It would be a double standard if I was this mythical GAF collective.

Christ, now you're generalizing about my feelings on Florida lol
 

OnPoint

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Gaf makes fun of Florida constantly now people will be defensive cause its NY? I mean I dont even make fun of the places but now you are getting extremely defensive over NY. it seems like double standards. If this video was taken at Florida people would be like yeah crazy people like everyone else in Florida post the Bugs Bunny gif and multiple people quoting the Bugs Bunny gif and have a laughfest. People are overreacting when worst has been said about many other places and no one gets offended over it or simply say SMH at my state etc.

By your logic then shouldn't any generalized group of people do the same then?

So maybe the black guy in the video should have just laughed.

"SMH at my race"

Right?
 

Acerac

Banned
So I assume you're racist?

I assumed the God I need to move comment would assure people that it wasn't my intent. Despite this, I put in an edit afterwards. This community saddens me at times. I'm not at all amazed by what went down here.
 
WOW. The dude took it well though, kudos on him for staying calm like that.

I feel sorry for her children as well. They're going to grow up and be as fucked up as her probably.

This world man...
 

besada

Banned
I don't get the "bad parenting" card when people discuss a mental illness. I know it's not uncommon to develop something like depression from family issues but stuff like bipolar or OCD (which I suffer from myself) are generally more gene-related, no? Speaking from personal experience, I had no problem at all until "something got activated" once I turned 18. Other people have been suffering from it since birth.

The problem is, it's complicated. And people aren't interested in complicated. Many, if not all, mental illness have genetic factors. But we now know that external causes can alter our genetics. So, did we start with malfunctioning brains or did childhood trauma knock us off the rails? No one's really sure, but it's likely that it takes a little of both to embed yourself deep into mental illness.

And, while mental illnesses may have strong genetic indicators, how we express those mental illnesses often comes down to our upbringing or other external factors.

So, you have two bipolar I people, and they're going to eventually have a manic episode. That's likely controlled almost or entirely by genes. But what they do on their manic episode is likely controlled by their personal interior landscape. So one guy might reach the psychotic break moment and believe that he's the anti-christ and another might reach it and decide that all accountants are secretly aliens from Neptune.

More and more we're discovering that genes, environment, and even brain damage mix together to produce some potent cocktails of crazy.
 

Vazra

irresponsible vagina leak
By your logic then shouldn't any generalized group of people do the same then?

So maybe the black guy in the video should have just laughed.

"SMH at my race"

Right?

SMH at your generalization. It's not the same situation and what he did was right. Different situations and different things.
 
Was i the only one who thought of Tammy (Megan Mullally) From parks and recs while watching this? Just spiced up with lots of racism, but kept the crazy? And a bit of the voice too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

hachi

Banned
Terrible scene. But I'm not comfortable with cyberheater's ban after looking over his posts in this thread. It seems to me that he wasn't an apologist for her behavior at any point, and was only cautioning that (1) people in anger will say anything to hurt another person that they are in a confrontation with, and (2) who knows what sort of screwed up circumstances she herself carries into this exchange. I think a little caution of that nature is okay, rather than simply chiming in with the somewhat disturbing enthusiasm here of taking some kind of pleasure in gawking at a person's worst moments put on tape.

The thing that bothers me is the high incidence of threads of this nature (G/A/F, etc) that seem to just take a little too much enjoyment in finding and mocking individuals who are clearly not very enlightened or who make fools of themselves, even though many of these individuals may have problems with poverty, backgrounds of abuse, or anything else we don't know about. To use such cases to learn or understand problems is one thing, but the threads inevitably feel self-congratulatory and arrogant, as everyone jumps in just to mock and feel superior to all those so hilariously backwards people from backwards parts our world.
 
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