You still embarrassingly parroting the narrative about the kids chanting "build that wall" which was debunked by video evidence? Yikes. I guess that just goes to show why people create fake news, there are people out there who will decide to believe it even after it gets exposed as a fraud.
You. Go watch the full footage. He walked up to that boy and beat his drum in his face. The guy had an easy path to continue. He instigated this for optics. You get out of here with that distorted view talk. You are distorting the truth.
I was responding to this post, bobbytheidiot Os Trigonum said: ↑ not sure who the "you guys" is aimed at yikes
Or, he was walking towards Lincoln Memorial and boy was in his path. He perhaps mistook boy as intentionally blocking his path, and he decided to keep beating his drum and chanting until the boy stepped aside. Why is the above less believable to you then he intentionally orchestrated a confrontation to make a schoolboy look bad?
Nobody was blocking his path to the memorial. Before he directly confronted the boys he could easily have made his way to the memorial — there was no one in his way. It is less believable because this is a group of fully-grown adults confronting a group of teenage boys due to the fact that the boys were being harassed by Black Israelites. I count at least three “hate crimes” — none of which were comitted by the boys but several of which were committed against the boys.
Thoughtful essay on the meaning of "smirk": https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/01/an-affected-or-simpering-smile-silly.html excerpt: "So I clicked through to the Slate article, "The MAGA Teenager Who Harassed a Native American Veteran Is Still Unnamed, but We’ve Seen His Face Before." This is by Ruth Graham, from January 19th and with no update, and it's really creepy. Here are the last 2 paragraphs, which tell us so much about what's inside Ruth Graham's head: "Looking into her mind, I think — and I show myself in saying this — that she believes she is and loves herself as a person of great empathy for human beings, and she is simply oblivious to the humanity of the teenager who she fears is harassing and mocking a person who looks to her like the kind of person she thinks of as Victim. She doesn't realize that she, a good person, could engage in victimizing, and when she looks in the mirror and smiles at herself, the expression on her face is never a 'smirk.'"
She is racist and a bigot. Clearly you did not read this thread. “Bring Jamal” instead of “build the wall”? Give it a rest. Haven’t you made yourself enough of a fool?
On the deeper significance of this incident . . . from the reliably anti-Trump Outside the Beltway. Excerpt: "In all honesty, I don’t much care whether one particular boy was a jerk in one particular instance. But I’m concerned about what the incident tells us about our current political culture. "Because almost everyone carries around smartphones with high-quality video recorders and the ability to instantly upload video to global media platforms, we have removed gatekeepers that once applied judgment to what constituted 'news.' Not very long ago at all, a kid who wasn’t otherwise a public figure engaged in what may or may not have been a confrontation with another non-public figure simply wouldn’t have been considered newsworthy. Or, if it were, editors would have demanded that reporters investigate the wider story, interview the students involved, and otherwise get a more complete picture before airing it nationally. "Instead, the old saw 'A lie goes halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on' has become amplified geometrically. And innocents who are not legitimately figures for public criticism get swarmed by the mob—often abetted, as it was in this case, by otherwise highly credible and honorable journalists. "Of course, in this particular instance, the virality was enhanced by the fact that the kid in question was wearing a hat associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. From the standpoint of the elite media—a term I use in its original, praiseworthy sense rather than with disdain—this is prima facie evidence that the wearer is a vile racist. And, why, he was at an anti-abortion rally on top of that. He’s obviously evil. In actuality, there’s a pretty good possibility that this is a pretty good kid earnestly marching for his principles awkwardly caught in the crossfire of competing protests. "Realistically, there’s no way to bring back the old gatekeepers. In many ways, I’m glad they don’t have the power they used to. (Certainly, I’ve benefited considerably from the ability to self-publish both in the blogosphere and on Twitter.) But we need to figure out how to restore some of the old sensibility of reserving judgment before the facts are known. That’s especially true when we’re dealing, not with politicians and other public figures, but with ordinary citizens simply caught on video." https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/maga-student-confronting-native-american-veteran-story-fake-news
You contradict Phillips, who says 'Something caused me to put myself between (them) - it was black and white' His intent was not to go to the Lincoln memorial. His stated goal was to get in the middle. But Phillips is a liar so who knows.
also There is no one blocking his path. He chose to go up to the kid when there were openings. This story is already being walked back by media because they are about to get hit with libel and defamation suits. And meanwhile it is exposing all the partisan fools on CFs for what they are.
Yeah getting comments from people on both sides and interviewing is what the legacy media skipped. They ignored their standards because they thought it was clear cut because MAGA hat means not human in their book.
