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

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I watched at least 6 videos and I still stand by my first reacton. A PUNK.

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If the students felt threatened or harassed by another group, then the *only* appropriate response would have been to walk away without saying or chanting anything.

As for the interaction with the Native American man, here’s some perspective. Imagine that this had been a group of black students wearing Black Lives Matter hats, and that they had stared down while appearing to partially surround an elderly white man. How would the narrative be different? How many would let the students off the hook or actually believe they were trying to “defuse the situation”? I know the answer, but feel free to try to lie.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on this thread before. One of my primary questions has been where the high school chaperones were and why they did not intervene.

Now it turns out that chaperones were, indeed, present. Instead of simply moving the group away from the small contingent of wacky protesters (African Israelites or Westboro Baptist - all the same, all crazy, and reasonable people know not to engage), they allowed school chants to escalate the situation. They allowed these boys to wear MAGA hats (inflammatory political symbols) out in public at a school-organized event. They saw a student engaged in a stare-down with an adult while other students cheered and laughed. They watched another student engage in a profanity-laden debate with a different adult. No matter what side someone might be on, how could any reasonable adult chaperone allow such chaos to build?

I saw this comment elsewhere and it rings true: The adult chaperones saw nothing wrong with the boys’ behavior. The MAGA hats, the stare-down, the jeering, the profanity, the escalating machismo. It was all OK because - to them - it was an acceptable response. All we need to do is look at MAGA-Boy’s smirk. He embodies this dangerous sentiment.

Haha. You are a tool.

Like it or not, Trump is the president of the country, and MAGA was his campaign slogan. If you think it's so incendiary, shut down the street vendors - many immigrants - who gladly sell this merchandise along with FBI t-shirts to tourists from all over the world.

The response of the Covington boys under the circumstances was restrained. I wish they'd rushed the Black Israelites and beat the shit out of them.

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Anonymous wrote:This all started with a field trip to legislate grown women’s bodies.

Nope, legislate about tiny, tiny women's bodies.

Oh, tiny, tiny men's bodies as well (they are inclusive)

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Anonymous wrote:This all started with a field trip to legislate grown women’s bodies.

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They were on a school trip to support denial of rights for women. It's not a big leap to think they'd harass a Native American elder.

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Anonymous wrote:If the students felt threatened or harassed by another group, then the *only* appropriate response would have been to walk away without saying or chanting anything.

As for the interaction with the Native American man, here’s some perspective. Imagine that this had been a group of black students wearing Black Lives Matter hats, and that they had stared down while appearing to partially surround an elderly white man. How would the narrative be different? How many would let the students off the hook or actually believe they were trying to “defuse the situation”? I know the answer, but feel free to try to lie.

It all depends on your vantage point. I suspect this has happened already at BLM events and that it received zero publicity.

And if you want to alter the scenario, at least get the basic facts right: it would be an elderly white man walking into a crowd of BLM supporters, not a group of BLM supporters circling a white man.

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Does anyone know how to find military records? Nathan Phillips (reported to be 64) claims to be a Vietnam vet. If that is the case he got into the war at the earliest 1974 (the year before the end).

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So these Kentucky fools were intimidated by a small number of black Israelites but then focused on the Native Americans who proceeded to intervene between them. Got it!

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Anonymous wrote:This all started with a field trip to legislate grown women’s bodies.

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They were on a school trip to support denial of rights for women. It's not a big leap to think they'd harass a Native American elder.

Because their respect for the view that human life begins at conception means that they'd harass a Native American?

Logic fail.

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Anonymous wrote:The black Israelites were AWFUL. That's what should be in the news

Nobody denies that. That has nothing with the teens mocking a Native American elderly man.

Who CHOSE to get in their face. Please include that part. It's important.

He didn't, he walked through their crowd. There were 100 of them, and 4 Native Americans. He was not a threat.

He was in no way a threat. But he walked right up to them, and got in their face, playing the drums. He was way too close in terms of personal space. It is hard to understand what he did as a gesture intended to calm things down.

It is completely inaccurate to say that the boys refused to get out of his way. And if you feel the boys were mocking his music, at least admit that he approached them.

Approach? Yes. "Got in their face?" Um, no. There were a handful of tribe members and a large crowd of boys. So, you are right he was no threat.
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The boy's reaction: stopped, staring at him, inches from his face, while his classmates were yelling, laughing, etc. You think that's a normal reaction? You'd be ok with that if someone on the street did that to you? Doubtful.

Who walked over to who?

Who was smirking and mocking the other? Phillips had every right to walk up those steps to complete his march. The lengths the MAGA folks will go to defend their bigotry continues to astound.

This from people who support a person who we are supposed to forgive for appropriating an entire heritage.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t wait for college app time. Get your story straight MAGAs. Trump might be impeached by then.

+1. And that’s where this will ultimately be litigated. I imagine that Liberty would love to have this kid. Private SLACs not so much. And the good Catholic colleges (G’town, Norte Dame, BC, Villanova, etc) will likely get a heads up and pass. Kid will need to go to Big State U that only looks at GPA and SATs.

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Longer versions of the video and a shiny PR letter paid for by mom and dad do not change the arrogant, entitled, menacing, mob behavior of those boys. And don’t get me started about what is wrong with a school bussing teenage boys to a rally committed to stripping constitutional rights from women.

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Anonymous wrote:This all started with a field trip to legislate grown women’s bodies.

Nope, legislate about tiny, tiny women's bodies.

Oh, tiny, tiny men's bodies as well (they are inclusive)

Exactly. Now, some have moved on to vilifying them for holding life in high regard.

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Anonymous wrote:So these Kentucky fools were intimidated by a small number of black Israelites but then focused on the Native Americans who proceeded to intervene between them. Got it!

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That's the whole thing in a nutshell.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds the black Israelites were the vile actors.

I've posted before, and I grew up in and live in the area where the school is. I've readthis boy's account. Here's my ongoing problem, and why even as I Catholic there is no way I would pay for the "privilege" of sendi g my kid to this school.

Most attendees of this school are white. Many are extremely wealthy. Our area is heavily segregated by both race/ethnicity and class. These kids grow up in a bubble of white privilege, as their parents and grandparents before them. They have very little life experience with people who aren't like them. Even their adult chaperones are utterly ill-equipped to know how to handle encounters with the likes of the Black Hebrew Israelites, which anyone who has ever lived in a diverse city ( I have) would know. I believe the kid when he says the chaperone gave them permission to do their school chants - an utterly ignorant way to deal with people like the BHI. People who have lived in cities would know that you ignore crazy and walk away. No doubt these kids and the adults with them think most black people are like BHI, because they have almost zero experience to the contrary.

So they are supposed to allow themselves to be driven away from a national monument on their one chance to see it because a few BHI cultists are screaming abuse at them for no reason? That's totally unreasonable. And what grounds do you have to say that these people believe that "most black people are like BHI", aside from just projecting your own ungrounded racial prejudices and stereotypes at these young people?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

The adults are supposed to have a clue. These kids are mainly rich - I know, I live here. They can go back anytime - the monuments aren't going anywhere and 16 yo boys don't give a fig about them anyway. Give me a big fat break.

More evidence to my point, from a graduate. Those of us who live here know.

https://www.change.org/p/rev-bishop-foys-immediate-change-at-covington-catholic