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Little girl yells at street preacher

True. The parent or adult could teach the child to express herself in better way rather just reacting and yelling rudely at an adult who was behaving in a rude obnoxious manner in public.

Exactly.

Who is going to teach the adult guy that it's rude and obnoxious to yell at people in public?

Passersby who politely interact with him and tell him why he's a douche.

Perhaps next year she'll bring a boom box and calmly stand beside him playing Santa Claus is Coming to Town at full volume? :D

That would be cool.
 
So a girl acts like a bratty child with no discipline or manners and it's ok because she's yelling at Christians?

No reasonable parent should allow their child to act like that.

No reasonable person would deny that the kid has a right to yell back at someone who's yelling in the street. Do you think that because he's Christian he has impunity when it comes to loudly berating people?
 
And the other was encouraged and filmed by an adult, who should already know that it's rude and obnoxious to yell at people in public.

And the third is me, applauding the kid for illustrating to an adult what bad behaviour looks and sounds like.
 
So you think it's just a reflection on his poor upbringing then?

I don't know anything about his upbringing, and neither do you. For you to paint this guy as some kind of degenerate is the height of absurdity. There are far worse things people can do than try and spread the gospel.
 
No reasonable person would deny that the kid has a right to yell back at someone who's yelling in the street. Do you think that because he's Christian he has impunity when it comes to loudly berating people?
Where exactly did the guy berate anyone? Quote? Time stamp? Anything?
 
No reasonable person would deny that the kid has a right to yell back at someone who's yelling in the street. Do you think that because he's Christian he has impunity when it comes to loudly berating people?

Actually, only an unreasonable person would think that was acceptable behavior for a little girl. Why are libs such contrarians? :roll:
 
Even if he was rude or obnoxious, a child should not have the right to talk to an adult like that. You got to wonder about the kinds of parents that would allow it.
Probably Dad goaded her into it, and is running the camera himself.

Somebody should call child protection services...
 
I don't know anything about his upbringing, and neither do you. For you to paint this guy as some kind of degenerate is the height of absurdity. There are far worse things people can do than try and spread the gospel.

That's true but if he went door to door, all he'd get is candy
 
I don't know anything about his upbringing, and neither do you. For you to paint this guy as some kind of degenerate is the height of absurdity. There are far worse things people can do than try and spread the gospel.
Where am I trying to paint the guy as some kind of 'degenerate'? I'm just saying that he's being rude and obnoxious by yelling at people in a public place. It doesn't matter what he's trying to 'spread'. Clearly he didn't learn good manners in his upbringing.
 
Where exactly did the guy berate anyone? Quote? Time stamp? Anything?

His whole spiel was berating people to 'turn from your sins'. He was loud and intrusive, deliberately making himself hard to ignore, and got some of his own back.
 
Actually, only an unreasonable person would think that was acceptable behavior for a little girl. Why are libs such contrarians? :roll:

I think that was unacceptable behaviour for an adult and he ought to be ashamed that a little girl showed him how obnoxious that kind of thing is.
 
Even if he was rude or obnoxious, a child should not have the right to talk to an adult like that. You got to wonder about the kinds of parents that would allow it.
Probably Dad goaded her into it, and is running the camera himself.

Somebody should call child protection services...

I'd be proud of my child for this. If the guy was preaching Marxism through a microphone on a sidewalk, would you think the child had no right to confront him?
 
Even if he was rude or obnoxious, a child should not have the right to talk to an adult like that. You got to wonder about the kinds of parents that would allow it.
Probably Dad goaded her into it, and is running the camera himself.

Somebody should call child protection services...

"You got to wonder about the kinds of parents" who would bring a child up to think it's okay to go into a public place and yell rudely and obnoxiously at other people. But it's far too late to call child protection services now. He's a grown adult. :D
 
Where am I trying to paint the guy as some kind of 'degenerate'? I'm just saying that he's being rude and obnoxious by yelling at people in a public place. It doesn't matter what he's trying to 'spread'. Clearly he didn't learn good manners in his upbringing.


Obviously, you'd never heard of a soap box before.


The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person engaging in often flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public speaking, as in the phrases "He's on his soapbox", or "Get off your soapbox." Hyde Park, London is known for its Sunday soapbox orators, who have assembled at Speakers' Corner since 1872 to discuss religion, politics and other topics.

The decades immediately preceding World War I have been called the "Golden Age of Soapbox Oratory."[1] Working people had little money to spend and tub-thumping public speakers pushing their social or political agendas provided a form of mass entertainment.[1] Radical political parties, intent on bringing what they perceived as an emancipatory message to the working class, were particularly intent upon making use of "street meetings," with their speeches and leaflets, to advance their specific message.

Throughout its history, soapboxing has been tied to the right to speak.

Soapbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



If it's not against any laws, then it's acceptable.

Actually, the negative reflection will be on those who can't cope with that. I think people should learn to lighten up, and instead, just learn to walk away and ignore.

If they are so easily riled, and are unable to cope with such a petty thing -

then something is wrong with them, mentally.
 
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It's not the preacher that's a spectacle - street preaching isn't something new. The spectacle is the little girl.
The CRUDE language she used is a reflection of the kind of environment/people she is exposed to.
She sounds and look trashy.

If her parents put her up to this, they don't use their thinking that much, do they? Or they don't care at all, or they don't know any better. Too bad, her folks are using her for their own agenda.

The poor thing, what's posted online tend to get immortalised, too. If this ever surface later on - I don't think this will look good on her cv.
 
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Obviously, you'd never heard of a soap box before.




Soapbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



If it's not against any laws, then it's acceptable.

Actually, the negative reflection will be on those who can't cope with that. I think people should learn to lighten up, and instead, just learn to walk away and ignore.

If they are so easily riled, and are unable to cope with such a petty thing -

then something is wrong with them, mentally.

C'mon, the whole deal with soapboxes is the interplay, the feedback, the exchange. If you think people standing on soapboxes shouldn't be argued with you miss the point. It's public interaction, it's where the rubber meets the road. Damn. Do that guy's fragile feelings need to be considered? Maybe he shouldn't be beaking off through a microphone on the sidewalk after dark.
 
It's not the preacher that's a spectacle - street preaching isn't something new. The spectacle is the little girl.
The CRUDE language she used is a reflection of the kind of environment/people she is exposed to.
She sounds and look trashy.

If her parents put her up to this, they don't use their thinking that much, do they? Or they don't care at all, or they don't know any better. Too bad, her folks are using her for their own agenda.

The poor thing, what's posted online tend to get immortalised, too. If this ever surface later on - I don't think this will look good on her cv.

Aren't you the poster who *just* said "If it's not against any laws, then it's acceptable. "

The girl didn't break any laws, but now you're being hypocritical and claiming her behavior was not acceptable. If you really believed your blather, you wouldn't have contradicted it in the very next post.
 
Obviously, you'd never heard of a soap box before.




Soapbox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



If it's not against any laws, then it's acceptable.

Actually, the negative reflection will be on those who can't cope with that. I think people should learn to lighten up, and instead, just learn to walk away and ignore.

If they are so easily riled, and are unable to cope with such a petty thing -

then something is wrong with them, mentally.

Of course I've heard of a Soapbox. People would GO to the park to listen to people ranting on a soapbox.

This guy went out of his way to go to a public space where families (including children) were enjoying a fun evening celebrating Halloween.

By using a microphone and amplifier to make his voice carry over a large area and make it very difficult to ignore, he was forcing people to have to listen to his obnoxious yelling, or leave the celebration.

The only people getting riled up are those who didn't like a young girl calling this fellow on his selfish rude obnoxious anti-social behaviour.
 
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Love this kid!
 
Of course I've heard of a Soapbox. People would GO to the park to listen to people ranting on a soapbox.

This guy went out of his way to go to a public space where families (including children) were enjoying a fun evening celebrating Halloween.

By using a microphone and amplifier to make his voice carry over a large area and make it very difficult to ignore, he was forcing people to have to listen to his obnoxious yelling, or leave the celebration.

The only people getting riled up are those who didn't like a young girl calling this fellow on his selfish rude obnoxious anti-social behaviour.

I would feel the same way if an atheist took a microphone and stood outside a church and yelled and ranted at the people going to church. That would be rude, obnoxious, anti-social behaviour.
 
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