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Sincere question, if i witnessed someone using racist language against somebody and thought the situation was going to escalate to violence i shouldn't say anything to try and calm the situation down as that would be conceived as trivialising how the abuse victim is feeling?
In my head telling the victim that i witnessed the abuse, would stand as a witness but ask that they don't retaliate with violence if it looked like that's where things were headed would not be such a bad thing. But do you feel that could very well escalate the situation and leave them feeling more isolated?
jono84-
You do what you feel is the right thing to do in that situation.
My statement was aimed at those who after the fact say that black people shouldn’t use violence against someone being racially abusive. If in the moment you’re there to calm that person down and in true Saturday night pub kicking out fashion to say that whoever’s being abusive isn’t worth it, I wouldn’t stop you.
But people who want to verbalise their racism need to understand there are consequences for it and not just the opprobrium of the Internet/twitter massive but real world physical ones if said black person decides it’s necessary.
cornelius_blackfoot
I should just say in relation to the punching of anyone who throws around racist terms, no white person can tell any black person how they should react or what they should do. If said person of colour wants to lay the smack down on someone calling them a racist term, then that’s entirely up to them.