Discussion for article #241646
“Bro” - it’s the popular and acceptable new slur for all occasions.
Kudos to those raising funds for the cafeteria workers. Too often food service industry workers must put up with douchbags like this kid.
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My reaction on reading the headline was to let out a huge groan and wonder why anyone would raise funds for the douchebag in the video.
Glad to see the fundraisers were for the victims of the harassment rather than for the perpetrator, something which has become exceedingly common with the right’s only reason for existence seeming to be pissing off decent people.
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if he gets assigned Community Service, I recommend they stick him in a homeless shelter kitchen for a few months
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He evidently has a history of douchebaggery as well. Here’s hoping he’s expelled. My alma mater doesn’t need, shouldn’t want his ilk.
Thanks to Luke, the cafeteria can’t cook enuf mac 'n cheese. I say we fund Luke!
One of the funniest videos I have ever seen, love when he tells the guy the cops will never come for this. Whoops… He has a history of this too, just a wise ass punk who never learns his lesson, or just needs to stop drinking. And a guy who should not be allowed to buy a gun.
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I see a Congressional seat in this boy’s future.
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As Ben Carson would say, “The bro’s mistake was not that he was drunk and disorderly, but that he was unarmed…”
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Dave Robinson, the food service manager should not be forced to seek employment out of state because of this incident. The abusive kid, Gatti, should be expelled forthwith and sent packing with a stain on his record that should follow him for a good long while. And he needs some therapy due to his under age alcohol consumption. And the food service employees and manager deserve recognition as well for their handling off all this…
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The fundraising response is admirable. But what is fascinating about this video is that it reflects a dramatic change in information flow. Students have been drunk at school since time immemorial. But only in our times has someone been able to capture the scene and broadcast it to the world immediately. Also indicative of this paradigm shift is the effort of the person with the cell phone to seek copyright protection.
Whatever his situation the young man does not deserve to have his behavior broadcast to the world.
I had the same reaction to the headline. Please, TPM, can you have a little training session about headline writing? We’ll still click on articles if you honestly portray what they’re about, we promise.
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You misunderstand the situation. Robinson had already decided to leave prior to the incident that night. That night, in fact, was his last night of employment there. His decision to leave has nothing to do with this punk’s behavior.
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It’s also a term used positively as well. The key is how you use the word. In condescending tone, there are dozens of word’s like “pal”, “buddy”, “my friend”, “dude”, “my man”, “bro”, etc., that are then insulting. But if you see a friend and say “what’s happening bro’”, that’s a good thing. I don’t see where “bro” is some kind of new term for insult. I hear all kinds of other words used that do the same thing. Context and tone are the keys.
Pity they did not link the video in the article. Great stuff.
Really? Because before the availability of cell-phone videos (which this twerp was for SURE aware of) it would have been his word (the college student vs the lowly food service person’s). And whom do you think the college decision-makers would have backed?
Yes, indeed, this asshole deserves to have his behavior broadcast to the world. Who does he think he is? I’ll just bet he has a “smart phone” that would have been used to support his side if he had been correct.
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Well that’s comforting right there.
I still think the kid who verbally abused that fellow needs an intervention and some therapy should anyone care about him. Where are that kids parents? Do they care? Has he got any friends?
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Definitely is leaning more than 90 degrees into alcoholism. First it is fun to drink and get drunk, then it is fun with problems and then it is not fun and only results in problems. This kid’s liver is going to kill him early if he continues on in this vein. He is definitely deserving of a Darwin Award - too stupid to live.
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Context and tone… you get it from the video. An “entitled” rich kid…drunk, lording it over the food service folks and verbally abusing them. He deserves to be expelled from that University ASAP. He’s what I would term a “peckerwood”
And as I related…for his health and everyone around him…he needs an intervention and therapy for anger management and alcohol abuse. Somebody needs to get to him NOW before he hurts someone. I don’t know how he would…drunk driving? Shooting someone in a fit of rage because he can’t get his mac 'n cheese? This kid has real problems.
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If I was there, I would have decked that douchebag myself.
Really? I completely disagree. I think everyone deserves the opportunity to see what an obnoxious, entitled, out of control drunk asshole this little douchebag is. Including any future employers that are lucky enough to google him before they hire him. This is a self-inflicted wound.
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