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Heckling is rude, obnoxious, and can be considered somewhat harrassing. I NEVER have sympathy for hecklers. I go through life pretty much with the attitude that we are supposed to follow here. If you don't like what you see, leave.
That said, the measure of a man is how well he deals with stressful situations. Apparantly Richard is not a very nice man. oh well.
I think hecklers ought to be tossed out of comedy clubs because they do tend to take the jokes away from the comedian that I paid to see. If I wanted to see some two bit, thinks he's funny, wannabe comedian I could stay home and listen to my 4 year old.
If you pick a fight with someone you don't really get much sympathy from me when that person hurts your feelings right back.
As a white person that KNOWS I will forever be a racist if I even think the *n* word to hard, I do find it offensive that the very same word is said by the people who are supposedly finding it offensive for me to say.
See I'm coming off sounding like I support the way Richard handled this situation, and that is not true. I don't. In fact if the lawsuite hadn't been brought up I would very much up in arms about a perfomer abusing his customers and not performing.
Racism is not illegal. Discrimination is, but even then only in specific areas, and only when federal money is involved. People in this country are allowed to say whatever the hell they want to unless such words could reasonably be expected to lead to harm of another.
It wouldn't surprise me if this heckler had baited Richard on purpose to cause just this reaction just so he could sue. Things happened pretty fast to be a coincidence I think.
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