(1) Read again...is a kicks thread, men getting kicks. If people post messages with LOL or that means what...they crying? A next man say he is a big baby. It eh much of a stretch to interpret that as being a softman. Don't try to ignore what right in front yuh face.
Like Just Cool say... all ah dis back and forth really getting outta hand. People "laugh" online for a variety of reasons, not only because they "getting kicks"... and I for one didn't interpret the situation to be that people getting kicks at the yute. People also laugh because they're happy... I for one, whether I laugh or not, was happy (as in communicating approval) to see some ole fashion discipline being employed. It is sorely lacking among the very same black youth represented here.
(2) Hardly call that proper discipline...and how you know the boy parents vacate anything? Where it say that on the video? For all we know they coulda drop him off and go on vacation in the Hamptons. The issue is that the youth post stories on the internet, the uncle didn't like them and intead of keeping family business private he broadcast the mess to the whole planet, pants falling off and all.
All ah that splitting hairs you engaging in just to justify your overreaction to the situation eh really making your case stronger. None of us know that situation but there are safe assumptions that can be made, one of those is that no one in their right mind will undertake to discipline a child like that, and no child will submit to the same, without authority. We could assume that the uncle has permission to beat the boy, but a more likely scenario is that he is raising the boy. If you want to argue with that then feel free, just be careful in painting with yuh broad brush that some ah dat "dumb" paint eh get on yuh.
As for this idea that because it it happens in T&T does not make it unusual is a poor argument. Trinidad is a model nation for bringing up children now? And maybe next time yuh in Trini try pulling down yuh pants and beating some small man dey...you might see how 'usual' them go stand for that.
Are you playing dotish or just looking for argument? You come here making a big deal about a youth of his age being disciplined as he is. I mentioned Trinidad but I easily could have mentioned any other Caribbean island or any other country in the world where there isn't as great a hang up about corporal punishment as there is here in the US. Trinidad and the US are really the only two relevant countries (throw in Canada if it would make you feel happy) b/c the situation took place in the US, and most of us here watching the vid are Trinis.
It's not a matter of whether TnT is some model or not... the fact is that for all your manufactured outrage at "a child that age" getting licks... the age thing simply isn't a factor for most of us. That's like making the argument that an 8 year old shouldn't be going to the corner store by himself. In Trinidad people would laugh at yuh. Whether it
right or wrong is dependent on the situation, it's not about positing one as some "model" over the other.
(3) And others can sit in their cyber bubble and ketch kicks. If the man stupid enough to let everybody see his family business then yeah, he should expect judgement from self-righteous, judgemental cyber peepers like me, or the police who may be watching. And if he collect a cyber buss-head in the squad-car they should post it on the web. Only then it would'nt be so funny.
Well at least yuh honest about what it is yuh doing.