okaydo said:
GBear4Life said:
okaydo said:
The normal reaction is to fight back because these 2 dudes are about to kill you. You fight back. Or you become a sitting duck and be shot dead. You fight back because you're scared that 2 people have guns on you. You fight back because it's your only chance to make it out alive. His reaction of self defense from 2 people threatening to kill him is the "normal" one.
Dude you're projecting the most convenient narrative for you. You're presuming, without any reasoned evidence, that they conveyed they wanted to stop him for the sake of killing him. They didn't need to get out of their vehicles to kill him. They weren't trying to get away with a homicide. They tried to stop him multiple times and shouted to him "we want to talk to you". There is no reason to think Ahmued thought he was going to get killed. Aside from this, fist fighting two men with guns is not fighting for your life. It's called committing suicide. But that's moot because the premise you set up -- that it was two men whose intent was to murder him, and that they conveyed that to him and he knew it -- was ridiculous.
If 2 guys were stalking you with guns, it's a perfectly normal to assume they are 1) threatening you and 2) want to kill you.
You're the one who's projecting their innocent intentions.
Pointing guns at somebody is a threat.
Trying to stop somebody who is threatening you with a lethal weapon is defending yourself and is indeed fighting for your life.
Revisiting some of this page 1 stuff....
If Arbery had just laid down spread eagle, allow cops to come and arrest him and face charges, that wouldn't have stuck, he'd be alive.
But he fought back, or fled, or panicked....whatever.
He died a martyr for the cause of changing American awareness and culture.
He surely did not want to be a martyr, but a martyr he is.
For all those who observed the trial and what happened, along with McMichael's self defense testimony/explanation,
we can never see this new concept of "subconscious racism" differently.
It's in all of us, and we need to get in touch with it to change it, to not pass it down to future generations.
Bless the Arbery family in their mourning.
Tis very sad for the McMichael family, too. There was a daughter who will now grow up without a father, wives who will miss their husbands.
Subconscious racism hurts everyone. We are a less great nation because of it.