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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

WnB casually clowning fools
 
Junebug said:
Lol. I live in an urban area with black neighbors. I mow their lawn for them because they are old.

You need a smoke.
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That’s cool of you to mow the lawns of 10-20% of your neighbors who are all elderly.
 
I was giving you props for mowing the lawns of all of your black neighbors in a neighborhood where the proportion of black people is similar to that of the country.
 
LOL at the responses on this thread.

Highland Deac said:
The fact you haven't heard it on some video clips doesn't mean it didn't happen. The Native American guy said that it did, and so did other witnesses. Who are we to believe - a Native American who's a Vietnam vet, or kids who - by your own admission - were acting like "shitheads"?
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/nathan-phillips-lied-the-media-bought-it/

It would have been revolting if Nathan Phillips had been minding his own business doing a tribal chant while a gang of kids swarmed around him and started jeering. That’s what many media outlets reported: “Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March,” ran a New York Times headline over a story that said “a throng of cheering and jeering high school boys” were “surrounding a Native American elder.”

That isn’t what happened. Phillips was the aggressor in the situation. It’s a curious feature of our culture that people aggressively seek to be victimized, go out of their way in hopes of getting punched in the face, but here we are. People do that because they know the media hand out condemnation based on perceived ranking in the victim hierarchy. “Old Ypsilanti man” is near the top, while “privileged-looking young white male probable heterosexual in a MAGA cap” is the absolute bottom. The surface appeal of the story short-circuited the reporters’ brains to such a degree that they failed to perform basic tasks such as asking the people they were accusing for their version of events. The Times and other outlets had zero evidence that a “mob” “surrounded” Phillips, except a claim of Phillips that he has since backed away from.

Phillips has on at least one other occasion gotten himself into what he says was a racist altercation with a group of youths. This one, four years ago, also involved him approaching others, in this case a group of college students. (“Why did Phillips go over to the fence? Why not just walk away?” wondered a reporter. “For me just to walk by and have a blind eye to it,” Phillips said. “Something just didn’t allow me to do it.”)

Friday he waded into a group of Covington students, evidently hoping to troll a response out of them suitable for a viral video. According to the Washington Post, Phillips, 64, said that 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. This is a lie. They didn’t swarm around him. He strolled right into the middle of their group:

Phillips then pivoted to a completely different version of his story with the Detroit Free Press, in which he admitted that he approached the students, not the other way around. His interviews and the various videos of the incident paint a picture of him saying he is a) terrified of the Catholic students yet b) walking right up to and into their group; a) doing his best to leave yet b) pressing forward insistently; a) trying to go up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial yet b) not noticing that there is a clear path up those steps approximately ten feet to his right.

Phillips, who claims to be a former Marine and a Vietnam veteran, told the Free Press the Covington kids “were in the process of attacking these four black individuals. I was there and I was witnessing all of this. . . . As this kept on going on and escalating, it just got to a point where you do something or you walk away, you know? You see something that is wrong and you’re faced with that choice of right or wrong.”

Because naturally, when you see a group of individuals “attacking” another group in a public place where there are lots of police, the proper response when you’re a 64-year-old man is not to inform a cop but to take charge of the situation yourself. Go up to the “attackers,” stand toe to toe with one of them and start loudly banging a drum in his face. This is a known mollification technique and it absolutely can never fail to defuse tensions. However, if it does fail, what you should do is move the drum even closer to the other person’s face, so it’s just a few inches from the guy’s ears, and keep banging away for several more minutes.

There is a nearly two-hour video of the incident in which a group of about five black individuals from the Black Hebrew Israelites shout abuse at Catholics and Trump supporters near the Lincoln Memorial. “You believe in a f***** child molester,” they shout. “The Purge is coming.” “Christ is coming back to kick your cracker asses.” Etc. One youth, apparently part of the Covington group, takes off his shirt, leads the group in what looks like a choreographed school cheer (this appears consistent with the account one student provided to WKRC TV in Cincinnati), everyone joins in, then most of them sit down or take a knee at about the 1:12 mark. At that point Phillips emerges from the crowd and walks up to the kids with his drum. The kids get up and start dancing and jumping again.

A lot of people were making videos of the incident. At least one of these videos, it appears, was taken by an ally of Phillips. Yet I haven’t come across a video that shows the Covington kids chanting “build the wall,” much less “attacking” black people as Phillips says.

If you insult someone, and that person insults you back, you don’t get to cry, “Oh my gosh, for no reason whatsoever I’ve just been insulted!” The Christian thing to do is of course turn the other cheek, but if we’re being honest, people do tend to take the bait when they’re being baited, and teens are less likely than others to turn away from outright provocation. Nathan Phillips went out seeking to create an incident, and he fooled the New York Times and the Washington Post into accepting his false version of it.
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Phillips didn't only fool the NYT and the WaPo... he fooled all of the MENSA members on the Tunnels Left as well
 
Certainly the likelihood of a Native American facing racist behavior more than once is nil.
 
Junebug said:
I watched the video from start to finish
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Who needs to watch the video and see what really happened when you can just run with the lazy and false narrative promoted by "mainstream" media propaganda??

The Tunnels' Left ain't got time for that shit.
 
ConnorEl said:
Uh huh.
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Highland Deac said:
We all knew it was coming, but Fox finally said it today: the black Hebrews instigated the confrontation, Phillips and his fellow Native Americans escalated the situation by confronting the students, and the Covington students were the real, innocent victims of political harassment by professional liberal agitators and fake stories by the evil news media. Not only are the kids and chaperones blameless, but the entire news media (except for Fox, of course) owes them a public apology. The Fox reporter's evidence is the kid's statement from yesterday, and that he "carefully" reviewed the fuzzy cellphone images and determined that the narrative above is correct. He concludes by writing that white, Catholic people in MAGA hats are now victims and targets of persecution by libs.

Link: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cov...-mainstream-media-lies-dont-expect-an-apology
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Yep
 
Ya hear that? the old Native American is out fooling people by intimidating poor innocent catholic boys out in their MAGA shit their parents bought them for their trip to DC, where they chanted on the mall to “pass the time” just waiting for their ride after their march was over - right where the old Native American guy had a permit for his march right then. And the circle of boys pressed closely around the two Native Americans, well, that was also tomfoolery. They were just standing around minding their own business and these malicious Native Americans provoked them! The national review solved the riddle!
 
Shockingly it can both be true that Phillips approached the group, AND that the (paid protester) teenagers then surrounded him, mocked and tried to intimidate him.
 
It makes sense that the kids were wearing the trump gear now. He is after all, the first catholic president.

 
Deacfreak07 said:
It makes sense that the kids were wearing the trump gear now. He is after all, the first catholic president.

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He has, as an adult authority figure, sexually abused little boys and then shielded the abusers from scrutiny or consequence?
 
ConnorEl said:
He has as an adult authority figure, sexually abused little girls and then shielded the abusers from scrutiny or consequence.
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See Epstein.
 
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