Quote: (01-27-2018 12:31 AM)Laner Wrote:
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Realize that its not the about growing up 'rough'. If that were the case, rural Canada would be dangerous as fuck.
No, its the bored that create the danger. None of these guys headstomping a downed man are doing so to diffuse danger to them or their friends. They are only doing it for story, and a story that gets more 'dangerous' every time its told.
Most of the Granville violence comes from a upper middle class kids who live in the suburbs. They are desperate for meaning and purpose, and this type of brutal cowardly fighting is their way to fill it.
It's racial and it's class. Lower class whites knew when to call it a day because fights were routine but if you stomped in some kid's head then one day his dad was going to pull up beside you on the street and dump two barrels of buckshot in to your guts.
Lower class non-whites don't give a fuck. They don't see down the road that far, and when one of theirs catches that 12 gauge the rest just shrug and accept it as a part of life.
Middle/Upper class whites on the other hand have had no initiation into violence and don't understand how it starts or where it stops. They love their adopted street culture and absorb rap music like morons then think they "get it". They're so desperate for street cred they end up acting like those same lower class non-whites, right down to the total risk avoidance of five guys jumping some random dude out of the blue.
The difference is that they don't go back to the state housing districts and catch that 12G. Daddy moves them to another state and they come back for the court dates with a high priced lawyer before getting community service that they never bother to attend.
The public will judge a man by what he lifts, but those close to him will judge him by what he carries.