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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the reporting was accurate.  When I watched the video I saw a rude, threatening white teenage boy trying to intimidate a man of color, a Native Indian, who was merely doing his thing.  The teenage boy looked like a typical entitled high school jerk whose parents didnt raise him properly.  He clearly thinks his "sh!t don't stink."  He is a type that most of us know well as every high school has some verison of this jerk.

That he was wearing a MAGA hat was merely an extra detail that added to his threatening demeanor because of its racsists, bullying connotations generally.  [b]But the red hat didn't, in and of itself, make him seem threatening.  The boy's own behavior was what was threatenting and scary.  [/b]

I've seen lots of foks in those red hats and, [b]unless they are at a Trump rally screaming at the press and the so-called-elites, they dont come across as threatening or scary.[/b]

If my white, privleged teenage son acted like that boy did, he would be in a sh!t load of trouble at home, at church and at school.  It would be a big big deal.  If that boy had decent parents, moral teachers, godly priests and good friends, he wouldnt never have acted that way.  This boy is the epitome of why Americans on the coasts think folks who live in places like Kentucky are uneducated, racists boors.  As a southerner myself, with many midwestern relatives, I know thats just not true but many folks dont.  Were I from Kentucky I'd have a boat load to say to this boy's community.  They are as much to blame as he is.

The WaPo got it right.  This kid is the worst of us. [/quote]

Which is it?  What about his behavior was threatening and scary?  You said that unless they are at a Trump rally screaming at the press and the so-called-elites, they don't come across as threatening or scary.  He was not at a Trump rally, and was not screaming.

[b]He did absolutely nothing wrong. [/b] HE was insulted by the Black Israelites.  HE was approached by Phillips.  HE said NOTHING to Phillips.[/quote]

Of course an amoral MAGA scum would think this. 
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What did he do wrong?  Be specific.  [/quote]

If you dont see a problem with his demeanor, attitude and stance, the wrongness of his behavior, then you are part of the problem.  He is radiating disrespect and challenge - noone stands like that, rigid and unsmiling directly where another perosn is clearly trying to go, purposefully in someone's way, unless you intend to send a message.  His demeanor is clearly transmitting his ill-regard and disrespect for the other man.  Normal behavior, when one means no ill-intent, would be to move to the side, without hesitation.  A person who was not trying to get into a fight or argument in this instance would obviously have moved away.  There was no reason, other than to intimidate, for him to stand like that in the other man's way.  Its not normal behavior.[/quote]

Sorry.  He was NOT standing "where another perosn (sic) is clearly trying to go, purposefully in someone's way".  Watch the video.  the entire video.  The group of students was standing off to the left side of the front of the Memorial steps, NOT directly in front of it.  Phillips said he was trying to get to the Memorial.  He could have walked DIRECTLY up the steps, unimpeded, to the Memorial.  There was PLENTY of unimpeded clear space for him to proceed directly up the steps to visit Abe. .  He chose to veer to the left and approach the group of students.  There is NO WAY that Sandmann was blocking his attempt to get to the Memorial, as he claimed.  You can spin it all you want, because you don't like Sandmann and the group of students, but your version is simply not the truth.  [/quote]

This was one of the ugliest of the many recent episodes of journalistic malpractice. The WaPo wrongly damaged the boy's reputation for decades to come and will be forced to pay handsomely for this injustice.[/quote]

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