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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-covington-students-and-the-calculated-art-of-making-people-uncomfortable/2019/01/23/817ffbba-1e8f-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.c0073efa310f Some thoughts as to your point no. 3. The kid was, and is, calculated. Those of us on the receiving end of such behavior know it. He knew it. He knew the line and what he could get away with. |
The issues of teens and cell phones and how to monitor and protect kids from hurting themselves goes beyond political viewpoints. It is a huge problem and there are plenty of parents who are naive on all sides. This is not something we had to deal with when we were teens so we can't even call on our own experiences. |
Yep. TBH - there are some self-described liberals who are pretty repulsed by the opinions of some of those on the hard left. |
And, yet. It was instantaneously flagged the minute someone referred to the video. I'm not really sure that it matters though. If it wasn't a CC kid, that is a fact that should be known. But, they were all mingled together. CC kids in the mix laughing. They are part of the same environment. So, we see CC technically "exonerated" but not without taint of wrongdoing. |
Just like the "righties" who threatened the parkland kids, Christine Blasey Ford . . . . so let's not point the finger when it comes to death threats, shall we? I think reasonable people can understand it happens on both sides. And in both instances, it's reprehensible. |
| Don't forget the attacks on the families from Sandy Hook either. |
Yes, I'm aware of that - and glad. BTW, you'll note that I didn't say "liberals" - I called them hard-left progressives or leftists. There's a difference. |
I agree with almost nothing in that opinion piece. It was written in a very biased manner. She wrote this: "In Sandmann’s mind, Phillips had come to provoke, rather than bring peace." This may or may not be true. But, she failed to note that Sandmann could well be right if this was his thinking. And in retrospect, with all we have learned about Phillips, I believe he was. |
I'll confirm that the boy who made the wildly inappropriate about how 'it's not rape if you enjoyed it' did not go to Covington. Time stamped video where the kid makes the remark in question. Notice that there a both boys and girls in the crowd. Covington is all boys. Also notice immediately after the remark you clearly hear a voice yell "he does not go to Covington" after which both groups of school boys appear to be exchanging looks and taunts. Also notice the outfit he is wearing https://youtu.be/CqUh7nlXn2k?t=13 Different video The first time stamp is where the Covington bus shows up and all the students take off. Notice how quickly the Black Hebrew Israelites turn their attention toward the next group of people. A group of people holding hands in a circle. https://youtu.be/R5yOzeMek_I?t=1228 More than 5 minutes after the Covington bus left the same kid, wearing the same clothes that made the rape remark is still there in the group (that is clearly both boys and girls). https://youtu.be/R5yOzeMek_I?t=1572 This was the product of about 10 minutes of research. If people did more cursory fact checking stories like this wouldn't be stories. If this isn't enough evidence that that kid is not a student at Covington I don't know what will be. |
Different pp- I'm leftist leaning too, but "the taint of wrongdoing?" C'mon really? Have you ever stood next to someone who does the wrong thing? Because in MS and HS seeing, standing near, overhearing someone do/say the wrong thing happens about every other day because the prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped and some kids aren't taught the right things at home. |
Wrong - the only group really to blame here are the chaperones. If they avoided the crazies right from the start, none of this would have happened. The boys were also out of control. The chaperones were negligent and showed poor judgement. Just like the parents/coaches at the school who allowed the blackface. |
NP. So why would anyone think their behavior is worthy of doxxing, death, or having their college rescind their acceptance? Overreact much? |
This country has gone insane. The Disney producer who posted on Twitter this teen belongs in a wood chipper? That is disgusting and scary. Disney should fire him but we know that would never happen. |
I feel so sorry for that kid. He didn't stand a chance once the leftists got him in their crosshairs. |
+1 “He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control. It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.” We are up to facecrimes now. Perfect. |