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MAGA teen bused in from a Catholic school harasses Indigenous People's marcher. Vile.
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Anonymous
UPDATE: She has deleted her tweet after being threatened with a lawsuit by the person representing some of the boys. |
Anonymous
This 130-page thread and the whole national frenzy over this issue could have been avoided if that advice had been followed in the first place. |
Anonymous
x 1 million |
Anonymous
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"Yes I agree it is vile to demonize children. All children. So spare us your faux outrage. You've never spoken up for the demonization of Michael Brown. For the demonization of Trayvon Martin. For the demonization of children torn from their parents' arms at the border and painted as MS-13 gang members. For the demonization of the Central Park 5 by none other than your president who wanted the state to kill them and then never apologized or changed his mind when their innocence was proven. Do you believe in sending children to adult prisons for the rest of their life? Do you speak out against such cases? I would wager you've never given it a thought, or don't really care to learn about such cases.
This is one of the reasons this story has gotten so many people riled up. Because people see how white kids get painted as choir boys despite being loud and obnoxious while black kids and immigrant kids get called adult thugs. White boys get put on the Supreme Court after a childhood of being obnoxious a-holes who have harrassed girls, because their childhood is protected in a way that the childhoods of black and brown children are not. You are blind if you deny that, no better than that guy in the post story living in his bubble where racial killings never happened in his hometown because he never heard about them. It's telling that you refuse to admit these boys were not very good representatives of their Catholic faith when they acted so unruly at a National Memorial to a slain president. That doesn't demonize them to say that. It's not demonizing to say please don't look the other way with a blithe "boys will be boys" and give them a pass for their unruliness. It's not demonizing to say take a look at another group of white kids who stood in a circle and prayed quietly while being yelled at and then told the group of black Israelites they loved them before calmly walking away, and then advise those Convington boys "this is the ideal way to behave to show your Christian faith." That's not demonizing. That's teaching. You can't say these boys were in town because their religious faith and concern for the sanctity of all human life compelled them to demonstrate against abortion and then give them a pass for acting completely contrary to that faith with their obnoxiousness. And no one will ever convince me that boy was praying when he stood unmoving with a smirk. So he lied about it. I believe that's a confessable sin. Death threats are terrible and should be condemned, just as there should have been no death threats against Christine Blasey Ford or death threats against the Central Park 5 by Trump. I condemn the death threats against these boys. Did you condemn the death threats against Ford, who as of late fall still had a security detail because she still was receiving them? You cannot look at this through anything but the racial and gendered issues that plague our nation. There is no ground zero on which to judge what's going on. Yes people are mad, because they are mad at the inequitable system that always gives such privileged boys a break while striking down boys of a different, less privileged racial-socio-economic status. " Thank you for writing and sharing this! |
Anonymous
She actually blamed the white boys for "taunting five black men"? No reference to the vile that spewed out of the black men's mouths? And that woman is an elected representative on the left? OMG. |
Anonymous
+10000000. Perfectly stated. |
Anonymous
Yep. But not surprising given her history of comments and tweets. The attorney representing the boys is contacting anyone who is posting falsehoods, threats, anything inflammatory and giving them 48 hours to delete their tweets or risk being named as a defendant in a lawsuit. Good for him! |
Anonymous
Agree.....good for him. And of course we are not allowed to criticize Omar, for obvious reasons. But her prejudice is apparent. |
Anonymous
I said this last night to my DH. The boys' behavior . . . I pretty much agree with the first PP. Times a million. But, I actually find the reactions of the parents, administrator, and Catholics defending them, and unwilling to concede ANYTHING on this incident, is the far bigger problem. There is now a "change.org" petition demanding an apology (read the comments on that, btw. I'm guessing people are incapable of seeing the irony -or maybe it's hypocrisy- of defending good, upstanding Catholic boys on God's mission in DC while uttering slurs, name-calling, and being pretty despicable). The willingness to engage in no self-reflection whatsoever. None. The willing to throw personal responsibility out the window. To play the victim. To say vile things. And to generally act, plainly stated, un-Christian like. It's a huge problem. And my first real opportunity to see, among people I had for the most part respected, that play out in real time. And with zero interest in facts. It's pure emotion and retreating to the status of a victim. |
Anonymous
And that is privilege. Ridiculous. |
Anonymous
What type of anti-Semitic things has she said? As a Jew, I've become concerned with the rise and/or tolerance of antisemitism among the far-left. |
Anonymous
Guess you folks aren't in favor of legal and tortious reforms now, huh? Legal system there when you want to use is . . . . all of a sudden pretty important. Esp. when you can afford high-powered attorneys and PR firms to bully people with less money and connections. Jesus would be proud. |
Anonymous
This is my take on it as a parent and as someone who worked in schools. The parents and the school - WTF. The kids were extremely badly behaved and yet... they are the victims? No. |
Anonymous
Did you and your DH also discuss the threatening language and bigotry of the black men involved and/or the "in-your-face" instigation by the anti-Catholic Native American? They are adults, and their behavior was far worse. Do you put most of the blame on them? |
Anonymous
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I told my son this morning:
1. don't be a jerk 2. don't befriend or stand near jerks 3. if you're doing one or two, shame on you and don't assume you're not being filmed 4. no one cares that you're twelve |