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07-29-2016, 12:49 PM
`` The decision to intervene is really up to them, but chalking it up as white knighting is ignorant.''
Do you honestly believe they would have cared if he was chasing another guy? I doubt it.
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07-29-2016, 01:12 PM
No... it's really not.
So you're saying greater than 50% of the time a woman is being pursued by an attacker, she brought it upon herself. Crime statistics don't even back that up.
I understand many of you are willing to die on this hill before admitting that the judgement lent was reaching, but that's ok.
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07-29-2016, 03:46 PM
Man, you love some hyperbole. I am not sure if you are even being serious at this point.
The only chip on my shoulder is the one that could be fixed by getting rid of Narcan.
This case is open and closed. There is no reaching and no judgement. People are speaking about this topic. If you want to rant about how unfair this board is too men who die protecting women, do it in another post.
Two idiots tried to help a drug-addicted thief and ended up dead. Their military status has nothing to do with it. They, in this instance, are the ones who jumped to a conclusion, a false one, and paid with their lives for it. Had they simply minded their own business, they would be alive. End of story.
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07-29-2016, 04:34 PM
I know people in the military and regular citizens who would jump in to help anyone who looked like they were in need of help. It is a good thing to live in a society where people try to protect their fellow citizens from harm. Of course you never know the circumstances that led to the incident and everyone has the right to be cautious in a situation like this. However, to say that anyone who gets hurt or killed protecting a woman is putting the pussy on a pedestal or white knighting, I think is misguided.
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07-29-2016, 04:38 PM
I dont' know we can call this "white knighting'. This isn't just a couple guys who decide to get into other people's business they are soldiers trained to intervene in conflicts, heck Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers are forced to be cops and mediators more than even soldiers so I think its just second nature for them to get involved in situations like this.
I tend to get the feeling a lot of people seem to think being a decent human being and trying to help people is "white knighting" or something to be looked down upon. We hear stories all the time of people being beatup, raped, kidnapped, etc on a train in front of 50 people and nobody does shit. I would hope if that was my sister or mom someone would step in and do something.
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07-29-2016, 04:52 PM
``This isn't just a couple guys who decide to get into other people's business they are soldiers trained to intervene in conflicts, heck Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers are forced to be cops and mediators more than even soldiers so I think its just second nature for them to get involved in situations like this.''
It shouldnt be, and if they think that it's a flaw in their training. We have police in the USA who do this job. We do not use or need the military to act as a police force in American cities.
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07-29-2016, 05:12 PM
The article states that
"It’s unclear whether the shooting occurred inside or outside the bar, but video of the incident was captured, according to the warrants"
It states the soldiers separated the guy from the girl.
If they chased the guy outside the bar then I would say that may be putting themselves out there too much. But if they were braking up the fight in the bar then that's normal decency. It turns into a another sad nightclub shooting.
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07-29-2016, 07:51 PM
I'm more surprised 2 military guys couldn't spot a dead eyed drug dealer who is most likely armed and out for blood.
Don't they train soldiers to spot that type of thing?
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07-29-2016, 10:05 PM
`` the fact that you're judging two people harshly for intervening. ''
The spin is on you. The position is one you simply choose to ignore because it blows your weak argument apart. Let me spell it out for you, one last time.
We are not insulting that they died, and it is not idiotic to point it out. It was the way they died was idiotic. You still fail to grasp they died for the ``honor'' of a drug-addicted thief. They died a fools death because of it. Yes, in fact, it is idiotic to give your life away to save a common street rat, someone who has probably already forgot about both of them and is already passed out in a gutter somewhere. It sucks that they died, but at the end of the day, they died for nothing. Nothing.
What ``honor'' is there in that?
If you truly believe the common bystander is going to come to your aid in the same situation, you are wrong. As a man, if you choose to fight in or around a club, no one will feel sorry for you. No one will step in and help you. Now, if you are on the ground in a bloody stump, someone might tell the guy to lay off or then come to make sure he doesnt kill you. But up to that point, they are just going to stand around and watch, and laugh, or even egg the guy on. Call us woman haters all you want, use the last resort of a losing debater and use all the name-calling and insults you want, it will not change this fact.
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07-30-2016, 07:21 AM
Exactly. It's not necessarily white knighting in every case but my experiencr has been that soldiers tend to want to charge in and be the hero, withoutn thinking about whether it's a good idea or whether it will actually help anything. Its a typical young person's mistake.
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07-30-2016, 08:35 AM
This incident reminders me of a comment that GhostofJefferson made on a RoK article, to paraphrase that we live in society that punish the men that are sheepdogs. Two men that were part of group of men in that trying to stop a guy form choking a girl. A girl who was not worth the two lives lost that try to protect her. We lament that these men were white knights for intervening, but,in reality we are lament that state of women in the West World. These were men that trying to be decent human beings. Help the girl out and then go back to their beers is the most likely scenario.
Let us not misuse the term of white knighting. These men were not going to save the girl and get a fuck as the reward for saving her. White knights do good deeds for ulterior motive. Punish that behavior, let not mock men trying to good deeds n this unjust world.
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07-30-2016, 08:51 AM
Quote: (07-29-2016 07:51 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:
I'm more surprised 2 military guys couldn't spot a dead eyed drug dealer who is most likely armed and out for blood.
Don't they train soldiers to spot that type of thing?
The cops most likely are better at it than these soldiers to spot something like that. One was an engineering instructor and one was not specified as an MOS.
From Fox News:
"The Island Packet, citing the arrest warrants, reported that Mills was physically assaulting a woman who
several patrons at the Lake Murray bar and the soldiers separated him from her. Mills then shot the soldiers with a handgun, the warrants state."
Honestly, I think that there is more to this incident than what is in the news article. If you had an incident that got so out of hand that half of the bar had to step in then there is a lot that we are missing.
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07-30-2016, 09:28 AM
I'm going to try to stick a fork in this.
When confronted with a situation like this in public the situation either warrants a full scale response or it's not your business. What I'm saying is do not involve yourself unless you are clearly legally entitled to use the full spectrum of physical violence.
Until that time comes, call the cops, position yourself and be ready, but unless you can justify cold cocking that son of a bitch in the back of the head then do not get involved. Why? Because anything less than a complete and thorough takedown risks outcomes like the one we've just seen.
"Restraining" people in a situation like this is a stupid joke, and your future will be the punch line.
If you absolutely must get involved, wait for a total and indisputable green light. My advice afterward is to walk away before the cops arrive, because if there's one thing that cops hate it's being made redundant by another alpha male.
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07-30-2016, 10:07 AM
Let me see if I'm understanding many of the Johnny Do-nothings in this thread. Never help a woman being beaten (the woman in this story was seriously injured) because at the very least she's a skank. (that reasoning seems similar to the sjw thinking that all men are potential rapists.) Also, don't do it because anytime a male does something to aid a female it means you are a white knight. Ok got it.
What about helping a guy that's being beaten? Don't help because, well because fuck that, I ain't no homo coming to white knight a dude. How about an elderly person? Would that be ok? Because if they were any kind of decent person they wouldn't be alone and their children would have seen that they were well cared for. How about a smaller kid? I shouldn't help because I can rationalize it as he's learning a valuable life lesson to hit the gym. What about an animal being abused? For sure not a cat, because cats are for single women and faggots and I'm neither of those. Not a dog either because frankly our society values animal life too much.
Anyways, I guess one guy's white knighting is what another guy would call having a conscience.
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07-30-2016, 10:15 AM
Quote: (07-30-2016 10:07 AM)Crisp Wrote:
Let me see if I'm understanding many of the Johnny Do-nothings in this thread. Never help a woman being beaten (the woman in this story was seriously injured) because at the very least she's a skank. (that reasoning seems similar to the sjw thinking that all men are potential rapists.) Also, don't do it because anytime a male does something to aid a female it means you are a white knight. Ok got it.
What about helping a guy that's being beaten? Don't help because, well because fuck that, I ain't no homo coming to white knight a dude. How about an elderly person? Would that be ok? Because if they were any kind of decent person they wouldn't be alone and their children would have seen that they were well cared for. How about a smaller kid? I shouldn't help because I can rationalize it as he's learning a valuable life lesson to hit the gym. What about an animal being abused? For sure not a cat, because cats are for single women and faggots and I'm neither of those. Not a dog either because frankly our society values animal life too much.
Anyways, I guess one guy's white knighting is what another guy would call having a conscience.
I hope your lessons in life don't cost you much. I really do.
I used to type like that when I was a young buck that'd never been in anything approaching a life or death situation.
Come back to us in a few years after you've saved the world.
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07-30-2016, 10:30 AM
I'm definitely no young buck, and fortunately I haven't been in a life or death situation. But I have been in instances where yes I have been guilty of white knighting by coming to help a woman being attacked and yes I even white knighted for a dude that was a a bartender in nyc that got jumped by a guy and a couple of his friends. I couldn't imagine just sliding down to another stool at the bar and just hoping they didn't knock my beer over.