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TBA

(825 posts)
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:19 AM Jul 2016

A Story (How unbelievably stupid racists can be)

So a friend of a friend who is recently single went on a date with a guy she met online.

Everything went south when the guy started making racist comments even going so far as to talk about who should be "taken out".

Then he said "The first person we should take out is that Martin Luther King guy".

Needless to say the date ended.

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A Story (How unbelievably stupid racists can be) (Original Post) TBA Jul 2016 OP
she should report mercuryblues Jul 2016 #1
not stupid at all. it's efficient. unblock Jul 2016 #2
"The first person we should take out is that Martin Luther King guy"? SheilaT Jul 2016 #3
Well.... TBA Jul 2016 #5
I suppose he also thinks JFK is still alive? SheilaT Jul 2016 #6
She needs to do a better job of vetting her online dates. DawgHouse Jul 2016 #4
Sorry but I find this odd. cwydro Jul 2016 #7

mercuryblues

(14,489 posts)
1. she should report
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:30 AM
Jul 2016

him to the police and FBI. He sounds like the next Dylann roof. He most likely has guns and a lot of them.

When someone can't stop themselves from racist rants and killing blacks on a 1st date they are unhinged. They are so far unhinged that the door is laying on the lawn.

unblock

(51,973 posts)
2. not stupid at all. it's efficient.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 09:44 AM
Jul 2016

i mean, being a bigot at all is stupid; but if you are a bigot, i suppose you're not going to be happy in a relationship with someone who doesn't share, or at least happily tolerate, your bigoted views.

so airing that on the first date is just efficiently weeding out the decent people who wouldn't last in a relationship with a bigot anyway.


(just to be painfully clear, i'm using "you" in the third-person sense to refer to the bigot from the story).

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. "The first person we should take out is that Martin Luther King guy"?
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 10:18 AM
Jul 2016

Did this date take place in 1967?

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
6. I suppose he also thinks JFK is still alive?
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 09:28 PM
Jul 2016

Or at least finished his first term alive?

Someone that ignorant probably isn't registered to vote. Or at least I hope he isn't.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
7. Sorry but I find this odd.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 09:32 PM
Jul 2016

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated when I was still a child.

I assume this person going on a date is most likely younger than I. And this weirdo, who I would assume is the same age group, even HEARD of Martin Luther King Jr?

Um, ok.

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