# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/521 "2019-01-23T20:59:07Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > actually, nm, the poster has acknowledge his error. > > Thank you, doorhinge. But by all means decline to acknowledge your own. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/522 "2019-01-23T21:00:10Z")
> [@Huey\_Freeman](#): > > …I’d be delighted to hear how anti-white racism (lol) and discrimination has personally impacted your life. I’d really, really, really like to know how you’ve been impacted by anti-white racism (lol)… A black man of acquaintance called me a “cracker”. Is it common, not to be able to know the difference between a “cracker” and a “peckerwood”? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/523 "2019-01-23T21:08:32Z")
Well now. Depending on your perspective, and the videos watched, it can seem innocent, or confrontational from either side. But this we do know. A MAGA hat is nothing more than a racist dog whistle. I wonder if the high school kids understand that. I bet they do. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/524 "2019-01-23T21:13:22Z")
Anti-white racism affected me very recently. In fact, just a few minutes ago I was subjected to a racist rant by an anti-white racist. And can we stop calling Nathan Phillips an ‘old man’? He’s about 15 years younger than the average age of the Democratic Leadership. He’s not even at retirement age. If he were running for President he’d be one of the younger people in the field. He’s the Wilford Brimley of ancient native elders. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/525 "2019-01-23T21:15:46Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Well now. Depending on your perspective, and the videos watched, it can seem innocent, or confrontational from either side. > > But this we do know. A MAGA hat is nothing more than a racist dog whistle. I wonder if the high school kids understand that. I bet they do. How many pictures of black people wearing MAGA hats do I have to show you before you accept that the truth is more nuanced than that? Or are they all ‘uncle toms’? ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/526 "2019-01-23T21:24:19Z")
Sometimes people get taken in by a conman. Once that happens it can be almost impossible for them to admit it. Pointing out that any individual person with particular characteristics has been taken in does not say anything to legitimize the con. “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/527 "2019-01-23T21:30:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > How many pictures of black people wearing MAGA hats do I have to show you before you accept that the truth is more nuanced than that? Or are they all ‘uncle toms’? You will have to send me a LOT of pictures. And none of them that are the paid assholes behind trumps rallies. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/528 "2019-01-23T21:34:53Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Well now. Depending on your perspective, and the videos watched, it can seem innocent, or confrontational from either side. > > But this we do know. A MAGA hat is nothing more than a racist dog whistle. I wonder if the high school kids understand that. I bet they do. It must be another one of those dog whistles that only yellow dog Democrats can hear. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/529 "2019-01-23T21:35:15Z")
[Knock Yourself Out](https://www.google.com/search?q=black+people+in+MAGA+hats&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVgLvf7YTgAhUO-J8KHXzvC9wQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=1058). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/530 "2019-01-23T21:35:24Z")
To continue. There is no lack of stupid assholes in the country for sure. 1/3 of them voted for Trump. Even Women. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/531 "2019-01-23T21:36:21Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You will have to send me a LOT of pictures. And none of them that are the paid assholes behind trumps rallies. Hahahaha. That is where they would most likely wear them. This isn’t rocket surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/532 "2019-01-23T21:38:15Z")
So the fact that there are so many white people in the Democratic party mean that the Democrats are not “no country for white men” as your very own Steve King said? [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/steve-king-republicans-white-supremacy-.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/steve-king-republicans-white-supremacy-.html) “Reflecting on the record number of black people and women in the new Congress, he added: “You could look over there and think the Democratic Party is no country for white men.”” ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/533 "2019-01-23T21:40:52Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > To continue. There is no lack of stupid assholes in the country for sure. 1/3 of them voted for Trump. Even Women. It seems that a lot of those stupid assholes chose to attack a teenager, his friends, and their school because they don’t approve of his hat. Or his parents wealth. Or his skin color. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/534 "2019-01-23T21:42:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > [Knock Yourself Out](https://www.google.com/search?q=black+people+in+MAGA+hats&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVgLvf7YTgAhUO-J8KHXzvC9wQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=1058). You can Google images. I’m impressed. What do YOU think MAGA stands for. Please show your work. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/535 "2019-01-23T21:42:44Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > How many pictures of black people wearing MAGA hats do I have to show you before you accept that the truth is more nuanced than that? Or are they all ‘uncle toms’? > [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Anti-white racism affected me very recently. In fact, just a few minutes ago I was subjected to a racist rant by an anti-white racist. I’m confused, do you think Black people can be racist? You seem to be taking both sides on that question. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/536 "2019-01-23T21:42:49Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > actually, nm, the poster has acknowledge his error. > > Thank you, doorhinge. You’re welcome, **k9bfriender** ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/537 "2019-01-23T21:43:52Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > It seems that a lot of those stupid assholes chose to attack a teenager, his friends, and their school because they don’t approve of his hat. Or his parents wealth. Or his skin color. You will see what ever you want. ---
**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 23, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/538 "2019-01-23T21:45:21Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > [Knock Yourself Out](https://www.google.com/search?q=black+people+in+MAGA+hats&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVgLvf7YTgAhUO-J8KHXzvC9wQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=1058). A lot of those pics are white people, or black people wearing hats that say America was never great or black lives matter. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/539 "2019-01-23T21:46:46Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You will see what ever you want. As will you. Isn’t America a great place. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090/540 "2019-01-23T21:48:11Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > You can Google images. I’m impressed. That’s kind of like saying, “if you have evidence. Write it down,” then when someone does exactly that, saying “Oh, so you can write. Are we supposed to be impressed?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covington-catholic-high-in-case-it-hasnt-been-mentioned-already/828090.md?page=28)