Well, you may have already seen it if you use any social media and haven’t reduced your feed to a bunch of Ann Coulter wannabees, but let put it out there.
A bunch of kids from this school were in DC for the March For Life and decided to do a little side taunting of a Native American Group that was demonstrating for memory of Native American vets.
During said taunting one of the native demonstrators, Natan Phillips went over to diffuse the situation but ended up surrounded by these MAGA-hat wearing punks and one of them got right in Phillips face with a smirk so goading he now owns the title of most slappable face since Martin Shkreli.
The images and video went viral and there was understandable outrage.
The diocese that Covington Catholic is in has said they are condemning the actions and the schoo,l after going silent most of the day, has said they will be punishing the students, including possible expulsion.
The kids, however, are trying to foist blame on Phillips and denying all wrongdoing. In anexchange with JoeySalads (tweet may not be current, sorry) they claim to be innocent of wrongdoing despite the intimidation tactics on display.
The lead kid with the punch-me face has not been identified (I’ve seen some folks trying but their conclusions seem way off) but i doubt it will remain that way for long.
He’s got a bright future. At the rate he’s going, he’ll be a Supreme Court Justice in 20-30 years.
What kind of horrible education are these brats receiving, where they think screaming “BUILD THE WALL!” at a bunch of Native Americans makes any sense?
And to top it all off, those kids were there to protest abortion. Instead of exemplifying Christian values and showing the world that all life is precious and deserving of respect, they did the complete opposite. Both them and their community should be ashamed.
Not all conservatives are – well, actually, yes they are. They can go to fucking hell. It’s conservative “It’s my white country, and I don’t wanna change” mentality that breads this shit. God help the motherfucker who wears a MAGA hat in my face.
We don’t need to understand or communicate with these animals; we need to crush them.
This goes along well with a video I just watched about the things the Church needs to talk about. They mention how churches completely stay away from issues that might be seen as too political, despite us all knowing that they tend to lean a certain way. It’s an interesting idea that the political is overriding the religious in these areas because religion refuses to talk about it.
In other words, there’s a reason they think that being anti-abortion also means mistreating those who are different from them, even though there is no actual connection. The connection is just “this is what the Republican positions are,” not something that flows from one to the other.
They’re Catholic, so I expect them to be pro-life. But they should also be pro-charity, pro-foreigner, and pro-love for their fellow man. But they’re not being taught that. If anything, they’ll get a message on abortion, and that’s it. And then tribalism takes over.
And, yes, they need to learn that they are the anchor baby immigrants relative to the Native Americans. That might help, too.
The thing is, much of the Catholic church, for all of its faults, actually is pro-immigrant. They’re just growing some in-bred, defective, moon-shining, sister-fucking, shit-kicking fuckwads in Kentucky. McConnell territory, so not a surprise, really.
Hey now, I’m sure these young men were merely expressing their economic anxiety. We should strive to understand them and treat them with civility and respect.
Sarcasm aside, I have to agree that chanting an anti-immigrant slogan at a Native American shows a certain lack of intellectual sophistication.
I have at least three cousins that went to CovCath - one older, now in his 50’s - and two younger, one in his early 30’s and the other in his late 20’s. They were all raised in upper-middle class households.
They all live with, or in rental property owned by, their parents, and none of them has been able to hold a job for more than a year for their entire adult lives.
The oldest has a couple of gun charges and a menacing by stalking charge. The middle has a domestic violence conviction for throwing a set of keys at his own mother’s face during his late 20’s, and a restraining order against him by the mother of the child he had out of wedlock. The youngest has a two DUIs.
All of them are Trump supporters. I’ve been waiting with baited breath for one of the two that I’m still friends with on Facebook to post something racist since this news broke.
FWIW, CovCath’s most recent alumnus to make the news was Jake Walter, a 7-foot-tall standout basketball player and son of former Bengal Joe Walter, was accused of raping his girlfriend until she bled.
I’ve seen some analysis, and it appears that the outrage is wholly based on Phillips’ account in WaPo, which has key inconsistencies with the available video. Namely, the “Build that wall” chant, and the claim that he was blocked from retreating. The videos we have contain none of the former, and demonstrates the latter not true at all. Further, additional video shows Phillips approaching the crowd, not that he was approached and surrounded.
He then bangs his drum inches from the kid’s face for quite some time, and while the smirk is off-putting, the kid just stands there taking it. Overall, the kids were being disrespectful and childish, but this is not at all the scenario, at least according to the videos we have, of a bunch of racist teenagers surrounding a Native American vet and taunting him.
I’m open to video evidence that racist chants were made, or that Phillips was blocked from retreating, but as it stands now, this doesn’t look to be the way it’s being portrayed.
I have seen no analysis, and my rage is based upon that disrespectful prick with the Maga grin. Fuck him, and the diocese that tought him his values. He probably has a motherfucking American flag on display at his house, and couldn’t even spell vietnam.
That just shows him banging his drum in the kids face for quite some time. He doesn’t attempt to leave and is blocked. It doesn’t demonstrate any racist chants. There is a clip of Phillips hitting his drum as he walks toward the crowd of kids before the incident takes place.
Now, were they mocking him and doing disrespectful dances etc.? Yes, but the portrayal here is that he was surrounded by a bunch of racist teenagers who kept him hostage via the crowd and intimidated him. The truth appears to be that Phillips approached the crowd and banged his drum in their faces, and then left freely shortly thereafter.
This raises my hackles because there’s an undercurrent of desire, pushed by prominent figures, to destroy these kid’s lives over something that is not what it all appears to be. I have a strong feeling, though I have no evidence, that the fact that they’re wearing Trump hats makes them worthy of doxxing and attack.
I actually removed you from ignore for this because I thought, “This is something I feel pretty strongly about, and I want to be able to respond to substantive rebuttals.”