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This thread is beyond disgusting. If you think extreme violence is an appropriate reaction to words, you're a fucking psychopath. That goes double if you think an old woman is an appropriate target when you're a jacked dude in your 20s.
The thread also runs contrary to their own TOS:
Era is a friggin hate site and the fact it has any kind of clout with industry people is legitimately upsetting.
The thing that they are all missing there is that the guy who committed that assault has probably permanently fucked up his own life.
For people who supposedly care about the plight of poor minorities in America they sure have a weird way of showing it.
"Yay, do something that'll get you incarcerated! She deserved it!"
Any rational mind in this situation first of all thinks that there is NO WAY a dude should be assaulting a 50 year old woman based on something she said.
Secondly, nobody should encourage that behavior since it will inevitably end with the guy going to prison.
I might not have much, if any, sympathy for the guy but if he has family etc then their lives are fucked up too because of this.
They don't see that endorsing and encouraging this kind of behavior can lead to vulnerable people being influenced into actions that end up ruining lives.
It's fine for you if you are sitting anonymously behind your avatar online but the reality of that situation is that this guy will now have to go through an expensive court case and will probably end up doing prison time. Just because he couldn't calm the fuck down. These fuckers think that's a good thing?
I'm sure at some point in our lives we've thought "if that guy said that to me then I'd fucking punch his lights out" and that's probably a perfectly normal thing. However if you were to actually do it in real life then who knows what would happen? The guy falls down and cracks his head and dies and before you know it your family is broke because of legal fees, your wife and kids only see you when they visit you in prison and maybe you have to do even more crimes to survive in there and if/when you do get out you are a broken person who can't get back into societies good graces.
Spreading the word that this is actually a good thing because "she deserved it" is only going to have the effect of people thinking that violence is an acceptable response and by the time they figure out that it actually isn't then it's too late.
Having the view that violence is never the answer is not some fucking radical perspective.
America's prisons are full of young lads who thought that violence was an appropriate response to whatever provocation.
It's not something to celebrate or endorse.
That guy could have given her some verbals back then went on with his life and it would probably be a funny story to tell his mates by now. He'd get over it. Instead he's going to go to prison at 29 years old for severely injuring a 55 year old woman.