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

[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.

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.

And Phillips stepped in to diffuse the situation between them and the kids from Kentucky. The kids response is what we see, and it doesn't reflect well on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yeah, you have it wrong. Try to educate yourself before you post next time.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

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.

It's the MAGA boogeyman. The irony is that by doing that, they give the media exactly the power they take so much issue with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yeah, you have it wrong. Try to educate yourself before you post next time.

You are literally telling me my eyes were wrong. GTFO.

[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.

You lost me with that first line.

If those boys were such deep believers in the idea of the sanctity of life, you'd think they'd be a little more sober and serious after marching against something they think is destroying that life on a mass basis year after year. Shouldn't that be weighing heavily on their minds? Of course not, they're teens who went along on a field trip and they don't care what the topic is, they're just glad they're out of school.

Do you think those boys are going to hold off having sex so as to prevent unwanted pregnancies that women might decide to abort?

Those boys were almost 100% required to go on the trip, they didn't go because they truly in their heart of hearts are so upset about pregnant women and girls ending their pregnancies.

If those boys could not represent their faith through their comportment, then they obviously were not ready to be brought to the rally. Catholic schools say they teach and instill values and one of the greatest of those is love and charity and the belief in the dignity of all life from birth to death. That is one of the reasons they like to claim they are superior to public education. Obviously that school has failed. Especially as none of the boys seems to have issued any apologies for acting like they did at a national memorial.

And their chaperone needs serious disciplining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

An excerpted video was presented showing only that moment of the story, without the context that told a completely different story. The news reports also did not make clear what had happened.

The original Washington Post article I read said:

In an interview Saturday, Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.

Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.

I had sympathy for Mr. Phillips after reading this. Teens "swarmed around him" as he was preparing to leave the march. Teens were disparaging the other native americans.

BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED AT ALL.

He walked RIGHT INTO the boys. The boys were in an argument with some men who were taunting THEM and had been for some time.

[Anonymous]

The smirk + the hat say it all. The Smirk Seen Round the World.

[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.

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.

No, you and your MAGA brethren would be here defending him and calling the teens thugs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Philips has been a white vet with a MAGA hat the boy would have ave bowed and stepped aside. Own it MAGAts.

Yep.

Conjecture on your part. If the boy had not been wearing a MAGA hat, the left wing media would have viewed their encounter like Woodstock.

Yes, you're right. MAGA hats are symbols of hatred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yeah, you have it wrong. Try to educate yourself before you post next time.

You are literally telling me my eyes were wrong. GTFO.

You admit you read none of the media stories, so how do you have any standing to judge whether the story was reported correctly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did Nathan Phillips walk up to the boys and not to the Black Hebrews, who were really the instigators?
Will anyone from the media ask him this?

Good question. And why are so few (are there any?) DCUM posters who are on Nathan Phillips' side willing to condemn the behavior of the Black Hebrews?

The Black Hebrews were a-holes, the Catholic boys were assholes. There.

+10000

[Anonymous]

For those who "don't have time to watch more video," here's a 3.5 minute CNN report that nicely summarizes what happened. I think it really fair reporting and is not the typical liberal slant you get from that website. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/maga-hat-teens-native-american-second-video/index.html'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yeah, you have it wrong. Try to educate yourself before you post next time.

You are literally telling me my eyes were wrong. GTFO.

You admit you read none of the media stories, so how do you have any standing to judge whether the story was reported correctly?

I am saying that it doesn't matter what the media reported. Facts are facts, and they are on video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who "don't have time to watch more video," here's a 3.5 minute CNN report that nicely summarizes what happened. I think it really fair reporting and is not the typical liberal slant you get from that website. https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/us/maga-hat-teens-native-american-second-video/index.html'

I don't need CNN to summarize what happened for me to make up my mind.

They were a bunch of disrespectful kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yeah, you have it wrong. Try to educate yourself before you post next time.

You are literally telling me my eyes were wrong. GTFO.

You admit you read none of the media stories, so how do you have any standing to judge whether the story was reported correctly?

You are a joke. There is nothing to exonerate that boy staring down an elderly man. He chose to do it, his friends and the adults there chose to watch it and encourage it, and you can tell your boner from reading about potential lawsuits over this to stand down: this boy and his parents have no hope of even a nuisance settlement. He thought he could act grown, but he chose poorly.