[user104658]

OR... we know for a fact that this guy has a mother who likes to slap him about the face, and now he has grown up to be a violent thug. Violence teaches violence. If she had respected him more when he was growing up instead of slapping him around, maybe he wouldn't be so keen to trash the world now.

Just sayin'.

[Thotmas]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

OR... we know for a fact that this guy has a mother who likes to slap him about the face, and now he has grown up to be a violent thug. Violence teaches violence. If she had respected him more when he was growing up instead of slapping him around, maybe he wouldn't be so keen to trash the world now.

Just sayin'.

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

I don't think anyone rioting and causing havoc has ever been called a "reveller"... I'm pretty sure you must mean something else...

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

There was plenty of white people involved in the London riots, I don't remember any of them being called "revelers" saying that white people are never called violent thugs is pretty ridiculous

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gra..._football.html

this is from an African American online mag, are those captions their own?

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Cherie

this is from an African American online mag, are those captions their own?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232

But others noted the contrast between the rioters in Keene - who appeared mostly to be white, well-off college students - and the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager two months ago.

Many compared the manner in which the media covered Keene and Ferguson. The former, one widely-circulated image complained, was typically described using phrases such as "rowdy", "mischief" and "booze-filled revellers". But the latter, according to mainstream discourse, had been the result of "thugs" and "animals" who were "destroying their community".

Others archly deployed the language of commentators who have weighed in over Ferguson. "Where are the leaders in the white community? They need to speak out," tweeted @BrFleurantin.. @WesleyLowery added: "Don't these people have jobs? Where are the white fathers? What will end this corrosive culture of violence?!"

This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232



This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

Doesn't revellers mean a party goer though? Which in that case would be relevant because that's what they were before they started rioting? They were festival goers turned rioters. Doesn't mean they're not also thugs

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...no-reason.html

https://storify.com/betakateenin/white-people-riots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29695232



This report has the word 'revellers' in the head line.

http://news.sky.com/story/1356198/po...-festival-riot

yes but the sky article is about a kind of street party that got out of hand. It did not involve looting

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

why when white kids riot and cause havoc in towns they're called revellers but blacks violent thug?

Originally Posted by Cherie

Looting can hardly be called revelling, not sure white football hooligans have ever been called revellers can you provide a link where looters whatever their colour have been labelled revellers

What Cherie said tbf

[arista]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

OR... we know for a fact that this guy has a mother who likes to slap him about the face, and now he has grown up to be a violent thug. Violence teaches violence. If she had respected him more when he was growing up instead of slapping him around, maybe he wouldn't be so keen to trash the world now.

Just sayin'.

He is a teen
that Mother had watched a Community Center
for old foilks , just built
Burn to the Fecking Ground.




I am with the Mother
smack that Punk Ass Kid rounds his head more

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by arista

He is a teen
that Mother had watched a Community Center
for old foilks , just built
Burn to the Fecking Ground.




I am with the Mother
smack that Punk Ass Kid rounds his head more

And I am with you on this Arista.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

OR... we know for a fact that this guy has a mother who likes to slap him about the face, and now he has grown up to be a violent thug. Violence teaches violence. If she had respected him more when he was growing up instead of slapping him around, maybe he wouldn't be so keen to trash the world now.

Just sayin'.

..we don't know that though, her emotions are all caught up in the turbulence of the riot and seeing her son a part of it and I would think that part of her slapping him would come from a fear and dread for his safety and a reaction to that...because her reaction and her emotions were to slap him in this extraordinary situation is no indication of a mother who likes to slap her son or that she hasn't shown him respect in his growing up...or that there is any sort of 'slapping around' type history in his childhood or life...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..we don't know that though, her emotions are all caught up in the turbulence of the riot and seeing her son a part of it and I would think that part of her slapping him would come from a fear and dread for his safety and a reaction to that...because her reaction and her emotions were to slap him in this extraordinary situation is no indication of a mother who likes to slap her son or that she hasn't shown him respect in his growing up...or that there is any sort of 'slapping around' type history in his childhood or life...

[Thotmas]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..we don't know that though, her emotions are all caught up in the turbulence of the riot and seeing her son a part of it and I would think that part of her slapping him would come from a fear and dread for his safety and a reaction to that...because her reaction and her emotions were to slap him in this extraordinary situation is no indication of a mother who likes to slap her son or that she hasn't shown him respect in his growing up...or that there is any sort of 'slapping around' type history in his childhood or life...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

OR... we know for a fact that this guy has a mother who likes to slap him about the face, and now he has grown up to be a violent thug. Violence teaches violence. If she had respected him more when he was growing up instead of slapping him around, maybe he wouldn't be so keen to trash the world now.

Just sayin'.

I think it is wildly presumptuous T.S, to decide from a 10 second clip in such outrageous circumstances, that this mother has been a poor parent who has raised her son in a violent manner with corporal punishment as any regular part of a brutal regime, because - to me - the exact opposite seems more likely to be the case.

To assume what you assume, is as ludicrous as deciding that a Crown Court judge who has just sentenced a violent thug he has never met before to a long prison sentence, is a man of mean and severe merciless habits.

If this mother - unlike a growing number of unfit parents on both sides of the Atlantic - has raised her children to be moral, decent, and law abiding in a loving, stable, home environment, is morally outraged by the violence she witnesses erupting in her home city, then recognises her son as one of those taking part - she will be rightfully shocked and incensed.

The fact that she was personally moved enough to GO to the scene of his law-breaking to both, put a stop to it and - admittedly angrily - to PUNISH him for it, shows a degree of morals, care and parental responsibility so increasingly lacking in the parents of the growing number of feral, lawless kids which now blight all Democratic societies across the globe.

Her 'corporal' punishment is far more likely to be the exception rather than the rule, because violent parents are bad parents and bad parents would not have been moved to do what this mother did. Bad parents simply do not give a shet where their kids are, or what they are doing.

For society to actually work, there HAS to be laws, and there has to be PUNISHMENT for those whose personal 'Moral Code' is insufficient to prevent them breaking such laws.

The above TENET is what lies at the very HEART of the 'civil unrest' which is escalating throughout certain states of the USA, because, increasingly, certain 'Officers of The Law'; from individual Police Officers to entire departments, Judges, and Politicians, are BREAKING the law -either directly or by complicity - by MURDERING BLACKS - yet their crimes are NOT being PUNISHED.

As true and sad a fact as this is, BREAKING other LAWS in protest, by destroying property, looting, and attacking innocent people is NOT the answer, because this will eventually lead to Martial Law, Civil War, then a total breakdown of Democracy replaced by Anarchy - which is EXACTLY what certain political agitators at the core of all these riots desire.

A crashed plane full of schoolboys landing on a tropical island paradise without any adult authority figures is not mandatory for Golding's 'Lord of The Flies' nightmare dystopia to become a reality, and for humans to revert to savagery, because it is HERE now, occurring before our blinkered eyes, and has been for centuries.

On OUR streets. to those of every other Country in the world - from the Baltics to the Middle East to the Far East - MAN is increasingly reverting to barbaric INHUMAN savagery and the WEAKER and more TOLERANT a democratic government is, then the more quickly that reversion is allowed to accelerate and take an IRREVERSIBLE foothold in our societies, because weak authority is as bad as Golding's non-authority.

Not ALL men are the same. The majority POSESS an intrinsic moral code whilst a minority DO NOT, but because the majority that do, are passive, peaceful and decent, they WILL ALWAYS be AT RISK and eventually succumb to those that don't.

Which is why we must have laws - rigid equitable laws - and an equitable Judicial System administrated by rigid but equitable men.

The laws and the society we have in Democracies may not be perfect, but the alternative should such laws be crushed and society with them - is unthinkable.

Is society a BETTER place since our Police, Justice, and Penal systems became 'soft'?

Perhaps, this mother had her rules, her laws, and because, despite her best instructions and teaching and despite her love and nurture, this son was persistently wayward in BREAKING those laws, she 'just lost it' at yet another of his criminal escapades.

As Ammi so succinctly said, we have NO RIGHT to judge her punishment - corporal or not - as evidence of her being an abusive mother.

I for one APPLAUD this mother and wish there were thousands more just like her.