When I was a freshman and sophomore I ran in a similar crowd with a kid who had ties to royalty in a Middle Eastern country. Stupid rich, traveled everywhere all the time, always had money for everything. Kind of a loudmouth but a decent guy to party with, nice enough and was always willing to share whatever it was he had.
I come to find out from a mutual friend and eventual room mate that the whenever he and this guy wound up alone together, the dude would start spouting off racist shit (room mate was a black guy). Super fucked up because he was the nicest, most laid back dude in the world. Apparently anytime they'd be alone together the rich kid would start making fun of him for coming from "slave ancestors", being poor from the south, genetic inferiority, the works. And my friend would just eat it and go "that's messed up man", not wanting to get into a conflict.
Few weeks after he tells me this (and some of our other friends) we wind up catching a ride home together from a party with this kid. He lived near us in the 19th ward so it made sense for him to hop in the same car as us (plus only a fool turns down a sober ride vs a 1 mile walk during a Rochester winter). We're joking around in the car and our black buddy mentions something stupid he did earlier that day, middle eastern kid goes "yeah well that's because you're a stupid fucking nigger (black friend)". Car goes silent.
Friend driving the car pulls over and tells the dude to get the fuck out. Like now. Guy cant believe we're worked up over what he said because, well obviously its common knowledge that black people are inferior. Basically says "well you can't deny hes a nigger, so why are you defending him?"
We pulled that mother fucker onto the side of Brooks Ave and let him know just how not OK it was to say those things. Didn't matter how much money he had, or who he knew back in his home country. In that instant there was no dollar amount that could have stopped us. Left him beat up but conscious about 4 blocks from his house and made it ABUNDANTLY clear that we didn't want to see or hear from him again.
We were a little nervous about hearing from the police for a few days after but nothing came of it. The guy was into selling / doing drugs so I figure he didnt want to bring the authorities into the picture. Once you're known to get the police involved, people generally stop going to you for drugs and inviting you to parties. Lost touch with him after he dropped out of RIT that following quarter.
This ended up being way longer than I anticipated, but yeah dude. I am not a violent person, I try my best to avoid conflict and surround myself with people who do the same. But something about the way this dude carried himself was just not OK with me. I'm honestly not even bothered that much by racists (easy to say as a white dude), it was just the way this kid acted like he could get away with vocalizing it because money...and I'm getting the same vibe from this story. I hardly ever post on reddit but this thread just brought this memory back from years and years ago like it happened yesterday. I remember how angry we all were that this piece of shit would say these things about our friend right to his face, like it was nothing. And here's this guy making fun of this girl (who I've never met and probably never will) for what, not having money?
Like, piss off dude. I don't need money to knock your fucking teeth in.