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If you insist on going back to the original topic, there's a pretty clear line that needs to be crossed before a person is responsible for their own beating. That line is, generally, one of danger, intentional provocation along racial/ethnic/personal lines to an extreme level, assaulting someone else first without reason, and maybe a select few others.
Was this guy being provocative with his outfit? I suppose a little, although it seems more attention-grabbing than provocative (assless chaps might be more "provocative" but still wouldn't get to the level of "earning" it). But it didn't rise to the level of being personally or generally insulting or inflammatory - at that point, the guy isn't doing anything wrong. He's being himself- and if he "should have known better" than being himself, I don't really know how to describe to you how sad that situation is.
Oh, and you're blaming the victim. No matter how you couch it.
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