Discussion: Student Charged After Wearing Gorilla Mask To Black Lives Matter Protest

I’m sure his parents are proud of him.

No, really, there’s no doubt they’re proud.

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Someone needs to keep track of this guy, and every step he takes in life pop up and provide the people he comes in contact with articles about this event. Applying to a new school? Here dean Wormer, in case you weren’t aware. Job application? Send an e-mail to HR. Hound him straight into hell.

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Take a look at your future Clowngressman from the Derp District of Tennessee.

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I think a copy of this and an article about the rally gets sent to the commissioner’s office of the NHL today. Just as a reminder people remember these things and may insist on revisiting them later.

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He seems nice.

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Somebody better tell the trump campaign its precinct captain will be indisposed for a few days.

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This idiot is from a conservative suburb of Nashville and was attending a state school in conservative Johnson City.

Dollars to doughnuts he was heavily rushed by the fraternities at ETSU, too.

Given that his goal was to provoke the demonstrators, and given his age, there is no way this behavior is new to him.
This is the sort of crap he learned at his parents’ knees.

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Somebody make sure this guy has no access to a firearm. Because we can see this one coming.

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He must have been inspired from previews of the new cartoon movie, Sing, coming to a theatre near you during the holidays.

Tristan Rettke?

Aryan much?

A proud product of the eastern Tennessee Hitlerjugend / KKK hybdrization. Mongrels all.

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A letter to the NHL won’t be necessary; he’ll need to buy a ticket to get near the ice. His high school record is not impressive and he is attending a school that does not have a hockey program (ice or field). He may even be too obnoxious to work in Trump’s African-American outreach campaign.

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My son went to ETSU 2004-2009. Now I’m glad he was a computer nerd and didn’t mix in.

Don’t want to leave anyone with him as a symbol of the school. Bill Gates actually contributed $3 million to upgrade their computer dept.

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I’m sorry. But just because we don’t approve, I don’t think arresting and being charged is the right thing. He’s an idiot but people are allowed to be idiots. Remember, the ACLU defended the American Nazi Party in its quest to march in Skokie. Just because he is offensive does not make him lose his 1st Amendment rights.

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So, in the spirit of preserving and honoring free speech on campus you’d be disinclined to sanction or punish a fraternity for draping a 20 foot Nazi flag on the front of their house?

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Yes, I would be disinclined to use the power of government to sanction or punish. Sanctioning or punishing from the national fraternity is certainly proper.

Sadly, as an American born white male I must now protest and prostrate myself before the whole world and say once again that this white male does not represent all white males and there are many white males who are embarrassed and ashamed by this behavior. Bad white man! Bad!

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Deplorable protesters are allowed to be deplorable while protesting, but I don’t think the school can’t punish him or kick him out for racist behavior to other students on campus.

Now if he made threats to others’ safety, and it looks like he did, arrest his ass.

So if I yell fire in a crowded theater it’s at the sole discretion of the theater owner to deal with me as they see fit, and municipal police departments can butt out? Are you saying police are to be forbidden from intervening in the early stages of a situation they judge has the potential to evolve into a matter placing the public’s safety in peril? I could stand at the men’s shirt counter at Macy’s loudly berating every black person as a stupid nigger, and if they lacked the security personnel to evict me they’d just have to put up with it, seeing as it wasn’t the job of the police to get involved?

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