Posted on 01/20/2019 8:18:30 AM PST by yesthatjallen
If someone walks up to you and bangs a drum in your face, are you guilty of harassing the drummer? You might be if you’re white and wearing a MAGA hat. Just a day after rushing to judgment about a Buzzfeed story that claimed President Trump had instructed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress—a story Robert Mueller’s own office subsequently debunked, the blue-checkmark media elite had a new instant narrative to promote. It was a tale perfectly tailored to liberal biases: white Catholic teenagers in MAGA hats had harassed an old and frail Indian veteran during the March for Life, which was also the date of an Indigenous People’s March.
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No lessons were learned from the story’s collapse, either, to judge by the frenzy that next broke out from the same sort of people over the case of Covington Catholic High School and Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Once again, enlightened opinion did not wait on much evidence before reaching a verdict: a one-minute video clip of a teen in a red MAGA hat smirking right in front of Phillips while the elder beat a hand drum and sang was all the proof required. This was a hate-motivated outrage perpetrated by white Trump supporters. Case closed.
The narrative assumed that the Covington boys had surrounded Philips and stood right in his face, grinning in silent insult. When a second video seemed to show that it was in fact Phillips who had approached the teens, it received even less attention — much as those few voices of caution about Buzzfeed’s fable were ignored by the true believers. But there are more videos, including one that’s nine-minutes long and provides a great deal of interesting context.
The teen is not smirking in this clip, and Phillips has his an entourage with cameras. One of the Indian activists argues with a Covington teen, who argues back. This and other clips have shown the Indian activists racially taunting the teens, saying things like “go back to Europe.” Phillips has claimed that the teens were chanting “build the wall!,” but that isn’t in any of the videos that circulated Saturday. Based on what can actually be seen and heard, it’s looks as if Phillips and his crew sought out Catholic teenagers and tried to make them uncomfortable. And of course, they recorded it. (Notably, however, both the Indian activists and the Covington teens rein in the activist and teenager who get into a shouting match. An appropriate attempt at restraint was has been completely ignored.)
The videos appear to depict more than one engagement between the Indians and the Catholic teens, and without knowing which happened first, and what circumstances led to the first encounter, it’s hard to form any conclusions, if fairness is your objective. Maybe the teens chanted “Build the wall!” or something else at the Indian activists, which prompted Phillips to approach them. But so far, there’s no evidence to support that scenario, only the words of Phillips and his associates. That hasn’t stopped blue-checkmark media figures like former CNN blatherskite Reza Aslan from not only branding the teens as racists but in Aslan’s case musing about inflicting violence on them:
"Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?" - Reza Aslan
Rhetorical questions about punching kids? Imagine the response of Aslan’s professional friends if he’d asked that about, say, one of the high schoolers campaigning for gun control after the Parkland, Florida shootings. Or imagine Aslan saying that about any teenager who’s not wearing a MAGA hat. Nonviolence and protecting children don’t apply when you’re an enemy to the woke, enlightened left. And another double-standard bears mention, as well: watch the rest of the nine-minute video with the Covington teens after the encounter with the Indian activists. Also on the scene are a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, a crackpot sect that takes this occasion to spew gay-baiting rhetoric at the Covington teenagers. This part of the Covington’s teens’ experience in Washington, D.C. has somehow gone unmentioned in most media, and the social justice enforcers on Twitter have not paid any attention at all to the hate explicitly vented here — certainly nothing like the outrage lavished on the Phillips-Covington incident.
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Everyone who reads Free Republic knew this was a fake staged BS story from the start. The Media flunkies ran with this story and thought they had a new cause!
Amazing how much that little douchebag Hoggie resembles Josef Goebbels... or actually Rudolf Hess even more...
What I haven’t seen yet is were there any adults chaperoning the students? And if so, what did they see?
Peaceful coexistence with these people is not possible. We need to stop pretending that it is.
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We need to agree to disagree and move to our own communities.
But it's the liberal extremists who keep forcing themselves on others who just want to be left in peace.
Dang. That is CIA level type psyops there. We have to assume the Deep State is trying to create a violent uprising at this point in time. Two major psyop Wag the Dogs in one week. Trump really stung em. How does it feel Brennan. Lol.
If you wear any MAGA gear in public, Leftists will attempt to set you up in staged situations where you come across looking racist as hell. These events will be recorded and posted on-line where they'll go viral. You could lose your job, your friends, your reputation, and the safety of your family will be at threatened.
These were high school kids. They're not as sophisticated and don't understand what's at play here.
If they see a camera they'll change their behavior so it has to be concealed.
If they don't know they're being recorded they'll act out their natural animal tendencies.
I have to say that the teens showed maturity, unlike Democrats and the Elder. Build the wall is offensive to the elder? Why, is it that they didn’t think of it in the 1600s?
Here is an supposedly unedited 2 hour segment. I hope someone is able to save this off, it wont last long.
Liberals are unhinged...we had a problem here when we came into a local store after a Trump rally for our great governor Ron DeSantis. We had either Trump 2020 or Ron DeSantis t shirts on and one of the people told us to get out. I called the owner about the rudeness, and he was sorry. We went to a restaurant and had a good meal, the guy was fired.
The kid should have softly repeated “Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee” and really triggered this professional victim.
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