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[calico]

Also who says no one else is supposed to get over the slurs to them?

Right? I don't think I've ever seen anyone argue black people should get over slurs used against them but nobody else should. Normally someone either thinks everyone should get over it or nobody should.

If he had shouted a slur at someone from a less protected group I doubt it would have created anything like as much controversy, because most groups don't have the chutzpah to try and compete with literal disabled people in the victimhood hierarchy.

 

[Major Insano]

Sounds like you have some low impulse control due to low emotional intelligence.

Ironic, since the only one with an impulse that he can't actually control is the one with the Tourette's.

Even more ironic seeing the DeafTourette guy like your post.

Yes, I would physically confront and restrain someone who was racially abusing my girlfriend, no matter their condition.

You can't enable or excuse criminal behaviour because the perpetrator has a 'disability'.

Would you allow or excuse predators that have their way with people because they are disabled and mentally ill? It's not their fault right? They can't control their impulses or behaviour right?
See where this type of thinking leads..?

Yet, I'm the pathetic one with low intelligence? I'm the one who should be ashamed for defending innocent people?

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Soft American actors couldn't handle Scottish banter. Seriously though it is completely absurd.

There's been a lot of discussion about Tourette Syndrome...

The gentleman in question is the only reason I know about it. He was a young teenager in the 80's when his first documentary aired over here. Then he became memed a fair bit in the early 'aughts with his later work.

He is effectively Mr Tourette over here.

 

[calico]

Yes, I would physically confront and restrain someone who was racially abusing my girlfriend, no matter their condition.

You can't enable or excuse criminal behaviour because the perpetrator has a 'disability'.

Would you allow or excuse predators that have their way with people because they are disabled and mentally ill? It's not their fault right? They can't control their impulses or behaviour right?
See where this type of thinking leads..?

Yet, I'm the pathetic one with low intelligence? I'm the one who should be ashamed for defending innocent people?

You should be ashamed of the entire take and it makes you sound like a pantomine villain, but yes we often 'excuse' what would otherwise be criminal behaviour due to an absence of a guilty mind (mens rea). In this case his disability would provide a very compelling defence that he lacked a guilty mind and his behaviour was therefore not criminal.

This is also why we have insanity defence etc. because we do not consider behaviour to be criminal if the perpetrator lacked a guilty mind. In the case that they are a danger to themselves or others they may still be sent to a mental hospital. We excuse them of the criminal element of the behaviour while still addressing the risk they pose.

In saner times I would laugh at your conflating mentally ill physically violent people with someone who has a disability causing them to unintentionally say upsetting words, or any suggestion they need to be treated in the same way, but we live in a time where enough people have convinced themselves that 'speech is violence' that this nonsense has to be taken seriously.

My question to you is: how do you think society should handle someone like this? Should he be locked away in prison or a mental hospital in order to protect society from the risk of being exposed to offensive words he might unintentionally say?