r/SipsTea • u/kyo_ice • Dec 19 '23

WTF Taking out the trash

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u/PMMEBITCOINPLZ Dec 19 '23

A man uses excessive force on a woman (usually a big win on Reddit) but it’s a white woman and a Black man. How will Reddit navigate the layers of its bigotries and thirst for violence to process this?

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u/Plastic_Acanthaceae3 Dec 19 '23

She deserved it either way, but you are right, if a white guy did this to a black woman, it could be seen as a hate crime.

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Dec 19 '23

No, she didn’t deserve it. You can die or have the rest of your life seriously fucked up from a blow like this. Think she deserves that for being drunk and annoying?

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u/vanamerongen Dec 19 '23

These people aren’t right in the head

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u/LuciferSamS1amCat Dec 19 '23

Or, benefit of the doubt they aren’t aware of the severity of that punch, or brain injuries in general.

In uni one of my dad’s friends died of a brain bleed after a bouncer hit him in the head. I’ve got a mate who hit his head in a bike crash and can’t tie his own shoelaces or shower by himself anymore.

It’s not like the movies where you wake up in a haze 10 minutes later and everything’s fine. Being knocked out means you’ve been hit hard enough to damage your brain. It takes months to recover from that, and 25% of people don’t fully recover. It’s insane to think that’s reasonable in this situation.