BippuLexus

That guy made me laugh hard.

Asian guy: Why you hit me?
White guy in blue: I didn't hit you, I tackled you.

LOL. Gotta be the most stupidest response ever. You don't tackle someone to stop a fight...

mmarshall

I said earlier that I did not condone the violence. An I can just see this guy going up to a bunch of loud-as-hell Rolling Thunder Harley bikers and kicking their bikes LOL...they'd make short work of him in the blink of an eye.

BippuLexus

Agreed. Violence is not the answer. But then again - the White guy swung first and the Asian guy reacted. So... at the end the White guy wasn't the victim - he was the suspect. I mean - he literally kicked the guy's car and swung first in the fight; not a victim no more.

Fizzboy7

1) Why is this labeled with races involved? Who cares if one is asian or white. Someone did something and another had a reaction to it. Happens every day.
2) There are indeed far too many loud exhaust giving the public stress and high blood pressure. I rather see more laws passed and higher enforcement. Loud exhaust that startles people is flat out disrespectful. After living along a major street for fifteen years, I can't tell you how many times a loud exhaust has almost made me spill my coffee.
3) Must be a slow news day.

BippuLexus

1) Why is not? Who cares if its labeled with races? It honestly doesn't matter.
2) How does loud exhaust gives public stress and high blood pressure? There is no correlation between those things. Lastly - I do agree. I don't like loud exhausts and there should be higher enforcement of noise laws. However - that doesn't give the right for the White guy to kick Audi R8 and start a fight.
3) Not slow. Just local news.

AJT123

I used to live right in that area. My apartment was inside a courtyard, and with the lovely weather I always left the balcony door open. I would hear so many crackling supercars in the blocks around me (likely with modded exhausts) it was ridiculous. Didn't bother me though as I kind of liked it.

LeX2K

The article linked to earlier reads like a PR campaign for this actor, really bizarre. I have no idea why race is being mentioned, and the white guy is being called white trash.

Fizzboy7

1) Many care if it's labeled with races. What does race have to do with any of it? These are two human beings in a conflict. Doesn't matter what their cultural origins are. Conflicts in society happen every single day. Does the local news headline every single story identifying what race the people are? No. So why is it done here?
2) Live and sleep along a major street and you will see what I am saying. Many exhaust are way over the line and take over your life for the few moments you hear them. You want to give a few moments of your life away every single night? I doubt it.
3) Fair enough.

BippuLexus

PR campaign? Not really. They report like any other news site involving an actor. They'll talk about the actor in order to get clicks - this is how journalism works. Why you think news about Hollywood Stars gets such in-depth details within news about themselves? It'll be literally 80% about the actor and then 20% about what they did. Similar to this.

Again - race is always mentioned in articles. In my opinion - who cares if its mentioned? Its mentioned on Fox - its mentioned on CNN. Its just American media.

Note: the article never called the white guy "white trash". Its the reddit sub-forum that did, which has nothing to do with the article from Nextshark.

BippuLexus

1) I wouldn't say many. I would say some. Some people do - some people don't. I personally have no preference on the matter. Would I prefer it to just exclude race all together? Of course. Because race isn't important to the relation of the story. However - I don't care if its put in there because its not a big deal. News website always label the races of people. From right wing Fox to left wing MSNBC - everyone does it.
2) I live in SF Bay Area. I understand loud and noisy. My point is - there is no scientific correlation between stress, blood pressure and exhaust noise. Will you suffer from lack of sleep? Yes. But you will from just living in the city in general... If exhaust don't wake you up, city noise will. I lived all my life in the big city - frankly - you'll get use to the noise.

LeX2K

Are you actually arguing that race baiting is a good thing? Why?

BippuLexus

This is what I said:
How did you get race baiting from that?
Where did I argue that? That's putting words in my mouth...

What I'm trying to say is - its always mentioned. As in, every news outlet does it and that's just typical American media from the right to the left. This is why I don't care much or think much about it.

pman6

2 idiots with big egos. Not really a race issue. If it were Justin Bieber revving, I bet white dude would cuss him out too.

Based on Lin's own story, he could have avoided all of this by simply ignoring the white dude's taunts and just staring him down silently, but instead, he escalated by taunting him back.

Lowlife hecklers are just looking for a response. Don't give them one.

exaktoh

pman6

at that moment, Lin was throwing and landing all the punches. Who do you stop when that's happening?

I would have just let them both continue fighting. playing it back slowmo, Lin got in one solid face punch, but took an elbow to the face.

These days, if you have something to lose, don't even bother. White dude took a photo of the audi license plate, and with the right sources, he could find out where he lives.