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The African Israelites can be heard on video repeatedly saying that Phillips calmed everyone down. So, overall, it appears that Phillips had a calming effect. |
Why didn’t the boy turn the other cheeek and walk away if he felt threatened? |
Which facts are emphasized has a huge effect on perception of truth. It’s also factual that the kid denigrated the marcher, and did so in a racist way. This is why Fox talks about hamburger emojis on days Manafort is convicted of crimes—because you can obscure the big picture by focusing on small truths. That’s why it is a propaganda approach for the right to focus on everything BUT the sins of the MAGA kids. I don’t think the marchers are blameless, but the MAGA video speaks for itself— and there’s a reason Fox is going crazy about the marchers. Distraction from the MAGA kid. |
Agree- it’s classic whataboutism. |
I wonder how calm the African Israelites would have been if Phillips had put his face and drum in their face as he did the boy. I watched the entire video and saw the boy in question leaving the monument with the group and he did not look evil or bro-like or happy. He looked as if he was confused by the incident. Why did Phillips though say the boys surrounded him when he has been shown in video approaching them? My comment stands though. You don’t calm a crowd down by fixating on one member and getting in their face. I have not heard any video in which the MAGA boys used racial slurs, cursing, or said build the wall. You’d have to think of such video exists it would be online for proof. |
If there is any such video, it is probably on the boys' phones. That's where it would have been most audible. |
| The kid has no reaction except for confusion and if he had approached anyone and gotten in their face and chanted the school chant I’d think he was an a-hole. What made Phillips focus on that kid? |
Please. I live in the area where these kids are from and I am Catholic. Even my Trump-voting, Faux News watching in laws were appalled and think these kids should be expelled. For the record this school has always churned out entitled brats like these kids. It's why I believe Brett Kavanaugh's accusers 110%. It's no secret that these schools are like this. |
So you admit there are no recordings of the boys using racial/curse words? I can clearly hear them chanting their school chant. We’d hear build the wall as well if it were chanted. |
DC field trip and chanting school chant and dancing and singing and yelling is entitled behavior? Well most kids are jerks apparently. |
Fixed it for you. |
Nope. It would have been recorded by the group with Phillips and replayed on Twitter and other social media by leftist groups many times by now. It’s beyond disgusting that liberal/progressive groups, who have valid grievances with Trump, want to ruin the lives of teenagers. I really hope your own kids’ boorishness and imperfections are broadcast to the world at some point. You might stop being such judgmental jerks. |
I don't now if there are recordings of the boys using racial/curse words. I am not able to understand most of what the kids are saying. I have no way of knowing if they are chanting their school chant or not because I can't understand what they are saying. I do know that two different chants occurred, so probably only one was the school chant. |
I went to a school like this. Most of the teenage boys were completely entitled nasty jerks. Which is also why I believed in the Kavanaugh accusations; these guys are typically allowed to get away with anything short of murder. Another teenager at this same high school violently raped a girl is going to be prosecuted, at least. |
Cry me a river. Entitled young white men like these rarely face consequences of their actions. |