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I think most people here have been around plenty of drunk people and your experience doesn't make you more of an expert. You're trying to claim people don't act out of character when drunk. No matter how many thousands of people you've dealt with, all it takes to disprove a generalized statement like you're making are examples to the contrary. I'm pretty sure most people have seen completely out of character behaviour in people they truly know well or have done it themselves. I know personally I've said hurtful things that I'm 100% certain that I had never believed or even thought before.
I'm absolutely positive in all your experience you have seen people act of character a lot of times, but you choose to believe they're not. For the most part with most of your experience being with strangers you're not really in a position to know.
As for Ferland's actions, I don't think anybody is excusing anything he's done because he may have been drunk. I think some people are being understanding about him making a mistake that is common to many people and saying he's not necessarily an a-hole sober if if he was drunk and made a mistake.
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As I've mentioned, people who would never ever say a racist thing have a few drinks its on for the racial slurs. So you're suggesting that these thoughts of racisms only manifest themselves when these people are drunk? I simply don't believe that. The thoughts are already there, the alcohol essentially acts as an agent to bring out these thoughts. But its not like they don't have these feelings already, they are simply supressing them. So while you can argue they'd never do these things sober, I simply think there's a barrier of fear (being labeled a racist is a tough one to overcome) that seems to disappear with alcohol. Similarily, if there was no fear of being outed as a racist, I think you'd see those people acting more racist.
Ultimately we'll never agree on this, so arguing back and forth seems pointless.
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LOL seriously, this is a forum about a sports team. It's not the place to ask for unbiased behaviour from fans.
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Right...so if you're cool bashing other teams without merit or validity, you should then also be cool taking it, no?