# Covington Catholic High (in case it hasn't been mentioned already) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090 "2019-01-20T02:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/401 "2019-01-22T18:51:12Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > My ignore list is getting longer and longer. Added two (that should already have made it) just today! Don’t mind different opinions and arguments; do mind aggressive insulting idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/402 "2019-01-22T18:56:45Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > You are a reprehensible person. Is your mother proud of how you turned out? You’re an asshole. So what? ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/403 "2019-01-22T19:01:02Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Or you’re full of shit. The old man’s entourage video’d all of their activities. I assume we can expect them to release the whole thing at any moment. Unless they have a reason, or reasons, not to. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/404 "2019-01-22T19:01:45Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Did I use the wrong word, or an un-PC word? Or hurt your feelings? > \ ***targeted** > adjective [before noun] uk ​ /ˈtɑːɡɪtɪd/ us ​ MARKETING, POLITICS > > directed at a particular group or activity: > > targeted advertising/marketing/tax cuts > > It will take more targeted initiatives to bring the poverty level down dramatically.\* > > [TARGETED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/targeted) > > Not according to the Cambridge Dictionary. > > The old man, and his entourage, walked past the Black Hebrew Israelites, and targeted the teenager. Thanks for playing. I’m curious: what’s it like when you wake up every morning— fresh off an adventure-dream about flying like Superman, or having consensual sexual intercourse with an attractive Hollywood actress or farm animal— and you experience that terrible moment of realization where you remember that you’re you, stuck living your life? It has to be _crushing_. ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/405 "2019-01-22T19:02:48Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > (post shortened) > > Looking at the quoted part of my post that you quoted in yours, which item was incorrect? > > I especially enjoyed your statement of, “Very few people hate someone because of the clothes they wear. **EXCEPT** when the clothes are a white hood, or the modern equivalent- the MAGA hat”. **Isn’t that another way of saying, “Some people may hate this teenager because of the clothes he wore”**. (emphasis mine) ETA: OMG! I forgot that reading (“it’s a block of text”, “the words burn”, “I was incapable of reading it all”, etc) is difficult for some of you. And, this post was initially little longer than a paragraph. Let me slow it down for ya’ll. You are mostly correct. The clothing that this animal wore (followed by his disrespectful actions) contributed to most of the ire he is receiving. TLDR: Whiteness is, as whiteness [does](https://nowthisnews.com/videos/news/man-walks-around-nyc-with-caucasians-shirt-to-parody-redskins-logo). I encourage you to look at that link and see how white folks hypocritically act when the tables are turned. Let me admit something about myself in which I know Guinastasia will response with "U R LYING!!! U R NEW!!! NO BENEFIT OF DOUBT 4 U!!! “NO!! U R WHITE CONSERVATIVE SENT TO DESTROY US!!!”. But, I supported Obama in 2008 and 2012. And as I sit here, I can’t think one instance in which people were wearing Obama hats en masse when it wasn’t an election year. Can you? This isn’t a rhetorical question. Can you point out a non-election year where crowds of people were wearing Obama hats or gear? Shit, even Obama gave his final address in Chicago - I [can’t](https://news.wttw.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/article/image-non-gallery/9_2.jpg?itok=O25RgUss)[find](http://www.themiamihurricane.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/NEWS_obama.mh2_1.jpg)[a](https://cdn.wbez.org/image/d34520c69b78fac7e874563e3b669858)[single](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4-rnkeK36KQ6fvjHMw-BLnfGdUWbPIiDTARE2DkGv_Ndk75BR)[photo](https://dailynorthwestern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OBAMA_ColinBoyle_2-900x601.jpg) with more than few people in the crowd wearing Obama hats or Obama gear. And this is at his fucking farewell address in CHICAGO. Let that sink in (if it can). In this specific context, these hats are used not in support of Trump but in support of the white supremacy. These animals, these non-voting supporters of Trump, know that how white liberals and people of color react to the hat, therefore they wear it to provoke a response, to “troll the libs”, to cloak themselves in white victimhood, and to virtue signal to others that they support racism and misogyny under the cloak of political affiliation. If the animal had removed his hat, stepped aside, this thread wouldn’t even be here. You do know that right? Though the white liberals will never see it: it’s clear that white folks are trying to inoculate their racism from criticism by merging it with political affiliation and religion. Setting this aside, it is clear that white folks live in a different universe. It’s the universe where racism doesn’t exist except when it’s “anti-white” (lol) racism. Need proof? See this folder or the first link above. It’s the universe where you can videotape a black man being beat to death by cops, and the white jury exonerates them. White folks are evil incarnate, literally on some Skeletor or Thanos type shit; they are like the [monsters](https://animeaudiolog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/shingeki-no-kyojin-episode-5-eaten-alive.jpg)from _Attack on Titan_. Our differences are just too wide to bridge. The only way to fix the issue is separation or secession. Period. [White folks want to have their own land, with their own laws, with their money, with their own schools, and hospitals separate from people of color](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ANfAR2Kjow). White folks just want to be left alone in their own universe. It’s the reason why the school’s website has not one single picture of a person of color. They are letting you know right now: minorities are not welcome at the school. And, they aren’t. And, if people of color are stupid to enroll, they have to deal with school policies that allow students to dress up in blackface (with the blessing of the adults in the room). This country is beyond saving. Carve out the urban (and suburban areas) and make them a State within a State. Urban and suburban areas need to be given their own representation in the Senate. Malcolm X was correct - separation is the only option. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/406 "2019-01-22T19:05:44Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > The old man’s entourage video’d all of their activities. I assume we can expect them to release the whole thing at any moment. Unless they have a reason, or reasons, not to. Like it would make a shitload of difference to you. You are only here to push the narrative of those in power in hopes that they will say “You may kiss our asses now-That’s a good MAGA!” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/407 "2019-01-22T19:08:14Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > \ Quoting so **raventhief** sees this. _(just some ignore-list-based humor :p)_ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/408 "2019-01-22T19:10:43Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Precisely what relevance does this have to the discussion of how a young thug instigated a confrontation with an elderly veteran who was trying to make peace? Now this kid is a thug? Thugs commit crimes. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/409 "2019-01-22T19:13:41Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > Quoting so **raventhief** sees this. > > _(just some ignore-list-based humor :p)_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/410 "2019-01-22T19:17:58Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > No 16-year-old wrote that. And I was right. It was written by a PR firm linked to Mitch McConnell. > **[Covington Catholic Student Hired PR Firm Co-Founded by Mitch McConnell's...](https://www.jezebel.com/covington-catholic-student-hired-pr-firm-co-founded-by-1831948833)** > > Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/411 "2019-01-22T19:21:55Z")
> [@Kyomara](#): > > Oh fuck off, of course a 16 year old could have written that. I could have at 16. And yet I was right. > **[Covington Catholic Student Hired PR Firm Co-Founded by Mitch McConnell's...](https://www.jezebel.com/covington-catholic-student-hired-pr-firm-co-founded-by-1831948833)** > > Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/412 "2019-01-22T19:24:12Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > The old man’s entourage video’d all of their activities. I assume we can expect them to release the whole thing at any moment. Unless they have a reason, or reasons, not to. I just noticed your “response” to this topic in Great Debates, so, to speak in a way that you might understand: Lame stream media? Lame stream media lame media lame lame! _Media_ stream stream lame lame, lame stream stream media, media lame media media! Stream main stream main media-lame lame lame stream, media lame. Lame media, media stream! Media? STREAM!! ---
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/413 "2019-01-22T19:25:06Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Now this kid is a thug? Thugs commit crimes. I think white folks came up with this crime called “menacing”. I don’t know much about it, but it fits the bill, after all, this law was written by white folks, passed by folks, affirmed by a white president/governor, and adjudicated by a white judges. So, it must be a legit law, right? Phillips said he was fearful. We should believe him, just like we believe your white supremacist cops were “fearful” when they murder [people of color.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo) As for “thug”, where were you when Trayvon Martin and [Tamir Rice](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/30/1464858/-Miami-Police-Union-president-says-Tamir-Rice-was-acting-like-a-thug-and-was-treated-like-a-thug)were referred to as thugs? These children had no criminal record. One of these children likely hadn’t even entered puberty yet. Meanwhile, the white animals refer to[Charles Manson](https://www.newsweek.com/charles-manson-was-loving-compassionate-man-who-cared-about-environment-says-721486?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social)as “loving” and “compassionate”. What a fucking joke. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/414 "2019-01-22T19:25:13Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Aww, did I trigger a snowflake? Here, let me shorten it even further so that you can pay attention to the part that matters: > > Why, exactly, do we tolerate his [**doorhinge** ’s] presence here? He literally never posts anything worth reading and if he were banned, the result would be a better forum. In addition to non-SDMB approved thoughts, doorhinge might also own non-SDMB approved apparel and vote for non-SDMB approved candidates. Rally the hives and go get him! ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/415 "2019-01-22T19:27:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > What size groups are you talking about? All male, or mixed? General guidelines are to travel with a 10/1 adult/child ratio. Generally mixed, though I don’t know that it matters. As far as things like, “you can go play frisbee in the commons” or “you can walk over to the student union to buy lunch”, anywhere from 2-10 kids might go together. Does that seem inappropriate to you? We let 16 year old kids drive, have jobs, be life-guards. I am pretty careful about it–like, I wouldn’t let a group like that cross a busy street alone. But letting kids wander a park or a mall or a campus–some defined space–is really normal. We also let them stay in hotel rooms overnight without an adult there in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/416 "2019-01-22T19:27:47Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > I think white folks came up with this crime called “menacing”. I think that “menacing” is a bullshit, dehumanizing description when it’s applied to teenagers as an excuse to use violence against them. And I think dehumanizing teenagers is a profoundly shitty thing to do. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/417 "2019-01-22T19:30:07Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > General guidelines are to travel with a 10/1 adult/child ratio. Generally mixed, though I don’t know that it matters. As far as things like, “you can go play frisbee in the commons” or “you can walk over to the student union to buy lunch”, anywhere from 2-10 kids might go together. > > Does that seem inappropriate to you? We let 16 year old kids drive, have jobs, be life-guards. I am pretty careful about it–like, I wouldn’t let a group like that cross a busy street alone. But letting kids wander a park or a mall or a campus–some defined space–is really normal. We also let them stay in hotel rooms overnight without an adult there in the room. I lead younger kids on field trips, and supervise them a lot more closely. Teenagers deserve a lot more freedom, absolutely. But I don’t think I’d send a bunch of teens wearing Act Up! t-shirts unsupervised onto the National Mall on a day where there were multiple competing protests. That would be deeply irresponsible. And MAGA hats are way shittier than Act Up! t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/418 "2019-01-22T19:30:39Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > The video clip is so short that you can’t tell what happened other than the boys yelled something in the women’s direction. Without knowing what preceded, it’s hard to make a judgement. But thank you for linking to a misleading clip. Did you read the link, where the person involved explained what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/419 "2019-01-22T19:31:41Z")
> [@LAZombie](#): > > All I saw was an obese white woman with too much makeup and unnatural hair color. Perhaps, she was asking where the nearest buffet was and the boys suggested she eat a salad. > > Is there more to this video? Obese? The very attractive young woman in the clip? You really are a piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/420 "2019-01-22T19:31:41Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > In addition to non-SDMB approved thoughts, doorhinge might also own non-SDMB approved apparel and vote for non-SDMB approved candidates. Rally the hives and go get him! For someone who constantly bitches about “censorship”, you sure post a lot. Besides being repressed constantly, what the fuck do you do here? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090.md?page=22)