Pennsylvania man hurls vile, racist insults at cameraman and protesters, promptly gets swift justice

[Moostache]

47. Actions have consequences...and that swings both ways.

Cheerleading this idiot's demise and wishing pain and suffering on his family is no better than his actions in the first place.

The intolerance that leads to just condemnation and celebration of same, but no reflection on why these attitudes exist and thrive in the minds of 21st century citizens of a first world nation at all, is the real tragedy here.

Justice is not served only through punishment alone - but through rehabilitation and improving society as a result.
The entire principle of imprisoning people is supposed to be about rehabilitation, even though in our sad little prison-industrial country that concept has been all but totally lost and is now clearly seeping into our general discourse as well.

Remember that his attitude is not extinguished through retribution in a single (or even multiple) case. If we truly want an end to racism and to vicious, inane and stupid rants and hatreds, then cheering this kind of thing from a far is counter productive unless we are simultaneously willing to address the reasons these attitudes persist in the first place. Education and conversation, HONEST, PAINFUL, RAW conversation, are the way to clearing these attitudes out of society.

His words have no place in the society I want to live in...but the response to those words and gleeful attitudes about "payback" and "learning his lesson" and such also have no place in a better society either. He should learn a lesson and he likely will suffer justly in the process, but being derided, discarded forever and failing to learn the REAL lesson (that people of color are NOT the ones that make his life worse than previous generations and that racial hatred is not a solution but an albatross) is not serving anything but the very same base nature that leads to the words in the first place.

Attacking this man and his pathetic and uneducated attitudes and words, without tying it to the larger issue in the country, namely that in the face of the law and law enforcement officers in many areas that black lives do NOT matter by law is tragic.

One man and his words cannot, and should not, allow the conversation to shift from systemic and endemic racism to the symptoms of that sickness. Pointing out that this guy is wrong is like saying that sugar is bad for diabetics and calling it a day! We can be better than that without providing acceptance of this kind of thing. We can and must be better than hate or celebratory hate as the two options...