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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.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)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
(52,253 posts)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)Did this date take place in 1967?
Dude though MLK was still alive. Wonder how many other people are that ignorant.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)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.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)People like this can be dangerous.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)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.