MAGA teen bused in from a Catholic school harasses Indigenous People's marcher. Vile.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m reading that many Covington Catholic families are preparing legal battles against the media outlets that defamed their children.

Good for them. This should have never happened.

Frivolous lawsuits are clogging up the courts. Those boys were no angels.

And this is how Kavanaughs beget Kavanaughs .

Yes, all white Catholic boys are alike, just like all young Hispanic men rape and murder small town Iowa girls and all black youths in Atlanta kill others in the prime of their lives. Happy MLK day to you too, you twit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are we so worried about these white boys when so many other injustices get ignored?

I'm not so much worried about the boys. But I feel I was completely misled by media. And by everyone who jumped on this story and shared it. The reality is much more complex and nuanced and people jumped to the worst interpretation because of the MAGA hats.

And this incident just gives fodder to those claiming #FAKE NEWS all the time.

I think the media needs to do a complete mea culpa and show that they might get it wrong but that they will retract when necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So basically social media reported this incident as a completely racist white teen male smirking at a tribal elder when in reality it was a bunch of high school kids being chanted at by some of DC's crazies. This upcoming generation of kids are going to be hardened, extreme racists if social media keeps this up.

I don't get this statement. We all watched videos, and made up our own minds.

If that was an old man in a MAGA hat and the teens were wearing Beto hats, you would've screamed bloody murder. And that's the difference between MAGA fans and honorable people. The latter would condemn both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure Covington Mom. Sure.

I am NOT a Covington mom. I am as anti MAGA and anti Trump as they come.

But this situation was not reported correctly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These are not scared or confused faces. And if you buy that statement, go ahead and send your money to the Nigerian prince already.

There was a LOT going on at this point. Watch the entire one hour video.

Then remember:

These boys had just been on an all day protest/march for something they believed in.
They were told to gather at the steps to go back to their hotel or wherever, for the night. They were assembling where they were supposed to.
They were being yelled at by some crazy dudes.
They were getting hot from being yelled at.
They started doing some school cheerleading type cheers. Some kids say it was to drown out the taunts from the Black Hebrew guys. Maybe it was just to focus inward on their group, show some group unity. Maybe it was to be aggressive back.
Yeah, maybe some of them yelled back at the Black Hebrews in response to being taunted.

AT THIS POINT Mr Phillips walks in, playing what he calls a "peace song" but what sounds to me like a lot of drumming.

The boys are all gathered in a group near the steps. Mr Phillips walks RIGHT INTO them. He doesn't walk around them to get to the top of the steps to meet his friends. He stops. He looks into the group.

Some of the boys start chanting and singing and hopping in beat to the drums. They are smiling. It is not at all clear to me that they are mocking him. They might be incorporating their school cheers into his song. They are heated up, revved up from events.
I don't know how you would expect the type of music Mr. Phillips is playing, to calm these kids down at all. It was drumming.

The boys did NOT approach Mr Phillips as he was peacefully playing music, and disrupt him. Mr. Phillips walked right up to and into their group, and then is complaining to the media that he felt surrounded, had no escape, and could not get through the group.

To require the teen boys at that point to back down, to walk away, to stop singing and chanting along with the music, is not to understand human nature. My own teen boy would probably have been singing and jumping up and down to the music at that point.

It is very hard to know how cell phone video would interpret your actions in such a situation.

Watch the complete video.

Exactly. But they are white boys, some of whom bought cheap MAGA merchandise, so the crazed liberal media decided to call them an aggressive mob instead, merely because they didn’t treat Phillips like some deity. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are we so worried about these white boys when so many other injustices get ignored?

I'm not so much worried about the boys. But I feel I was completely misled by media. And by everyone who jumped on this story and shared it. The reality is much more complex and nuanced and people jumped to the worst interpretation because of the MAGA hats.

And this incident just gives fodder to those claiming #FAKE NEWS all the time.

I think the media needs to do a complete mea culpa and show that they might get it wrong but that they will retract when necessary.

You are basically admitting you are letting the media make up your mind for you. The videos recorded what happened. The opinion should've been formed on your own.

[Anonymous]

And what is Prezzy Trump doing today to celebrate MLK? Hmmmmm. Waiting....
Go do small good things today to honor that brilliant young man who dared to dream such a beautiful dream. Respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically social media reported this incident as a completely racist white teen male smirking at a tribal elder when in reality it was a bunch of high school kids being chanted at by some of DC's crazies. This upcoming generation of kids are going to be hardened, extreme racists if social media keeps this up.

I don't get this statement. We all watched videos, and made up our own minds.

If that was an old man in a MAGA hat and the teens were wearing Beto hats, you would've screamed bloody murder. And that's the difference between MAGA fans and honorable people. The latter would condemn both.

Actually on social media a lot of people didn't watch the videos and make up their own minds. They just read what other people were posting, and reposted how wonderful for example, Nathan Phillips was.

And now that this second video has come out, you know what a lot of those people are saying online? "I don't have time to watch ANOTHER video...." I am really not impressed. It's like they don't want to have to admit they may have been wrong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sure Covington Mom. Sure.

I am NOT a Covington mom. I am as anti MAGA and anti Trump as they come.

But this situation was not reported correctly.

So the video of the boy smirking, the kids surrounding the old man and mocking his chants were not reported correctly?

I mean, I read none of the media stories, so I am very confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically social media reported this incident as a completely racist white teen male smirking at a tribal elder when in reality it was a bunch of high school kids being chanted at by some of DC's crazies. This upcoming generation of kids are going to be hardened, extreme racists if social media keeps this up.

I don't get this statement. We all watched videos, and made up our own minds.

If that was an old man in a MAGA hat and the teens were wearing Beto hats, you would've screamed bloody murder. And that's the difference between MAGA fans and honorable people. The latter would condemn both.

Actually on social media a lot of people didn't watch the videos and make up their own minds. They just read what other people were posting, and reposted how wonderful for example, Nathan Phillips was.

And now that this second video has come out, you know what a lot of those people are saying online? "I don't have time to watch ANOTHER video...." I am really not impressed. It's like they don't want to have to admit they may have been wrong.

Well, I watched them all. He was still a brat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically social media reported this incident as a completely racist white teen male smirking at a tribal elder when in reality it was a bunch of high school kids being chanted at by some of DC's crazies. This upcoming generation of kids are going to be hardened, extreme racists if social media keeps this up.

I don't get this statement. We all watched videos, and made up our own minds.

If that was an old man in a MAGA hat and the teens were wearing Beto hats, you would've screamed bloody murder. And that's the difference between MAGA fans and honorable people. The latter would condemn both.

No, you watched a minute of video before throwing a fit, and others withheld judgment and watched hours of video before reporting the full story. The real aggressors in this situation were the black Hebrew Israelites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically social media reported this incident as a completely racist white teen male smirking at a tribal elder when in reality it was a bunch of high school kids being chanted at by some of DC's crazies. This upcoming generation of kids are going to be hardened, extreme racists if social media keeps this up.

I don't get this statement. We all watched videos, and made up our own minds.

If that was an old man in a MAGA hat and the teens were wearing Beto hats, you would've screamed bloody murder. And that's the difference between MAGA fans and honorable people. The latter would condemn both.

If the Native American beating the drum was a white male wearing a MAGA hat, and the teens were non-white, the story would have been “Racist White Man Physically Intimates Teenagers.” People would have been condemning him and holding the smirking teen up as a paragon of bravery in the face of racism.

[Anonymous]

Always blaming the other. The ones with darker skin. Always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure Covington Mom. Sure.

I am NOT a Covington mom. I am as anti MAGA and anti Trump as they come.

But this situation was not reported correctly.

Then read this string of tweets and watch the corresponding video. The situation between Phillips and MAGA boy was reported correctly.

https://twitter.com/lisasharper/status/1087174914673655809

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly. But they are white boys, some of whom bought cheap MAGA merchandise, so the crazed liberal media decided to call them an aggressive mob instead, merely because they didn’t treat Phillips like some deity. Absolutely ridiculous.

This wasn't really media-driven story. It was completely driven by social media. When the media finally got involved, it was with interviews of Nathan Phillips. His story was worth reporting given his prominence in the incident. There could be a good case made that this event demonstrates the danger of social media mobs, but I don't think you have much of an argument for blaming the media.