Hahahaha. The old man, and his entourage, weren’t in the middle of a mob. The old man chose to walk past the Black Hebrew Israelites, and chose instead to walk up to the teenager and start a confrontation. His choice.
The usual suspects immediately jumped on the let’s-hate-white-people bandwagon, and condemned the teenager for wearing clothes that the haters do not approve of.
Does “sadface” mean your feelings were hurt, or is that one of those infamous dog whistles that only Democrats can hear? You’re a hoot. “Your argument is sadface.” That there is comedy gold.
I saw one clip with a 360 pan. It showed that the veteran was entirely surrounded by the crowd. But it also missed the part where Smirky and veteran moved towards one another. So while I can say that Smirky wasn’t giving way, I don’t know about first contact.
Not clear. Not clear because…
This. The whole point was to create a distraction. I haven’t studied crowd control at all, but this seems to me from my limited experience to be a viable strategy, albeit a dangerous one. In my dojo, we are told that it’s best not to be surrounded by potential assailants, but rather to escape to the periphery.
The teens were hacking around, which is what teens do. There was some mockery directed against the Native American, of the sort that the chaperones should have attempted to curb in some way. They didn’t. Smirky wasn’t just standing around: he was getting in the drummer’s personal space. If a performer is making his way through a crowd, you step aside.
Some virulence is appropriate towards the school I think: they permitted a kid in blackface at a school basketball game a few years back, among other irresponsible acts. I think the teens need a talking to, with perhaps a community service assignment. I wouldn’t expel them. I do think it’s reasonable for the wider community to doubt whether the Diocese will do the right thing, but I would be happy to be pleasantly surprised. More generally, for years high schools have sent teens over to the March for Life demonstrations, without providing adequate guidance on how to conduct yourself in a public and urban space. That should stop.
According to the Wiki, Phillips did not serve in combat. Phillips was a Marine and did serve during the Vietnam era. He is also a blame sight better human being than “poor little rich boy” with the smirk. Another also: according to note 14 of that same wiki page, this is not his first time being harassed by students.
I’ve linked to it before, but this clip shows that the veteran was surrounded by the mob, the one he marched into. https://twitter.com/lisasharper/status/1087197895999262721
There was a better depiction of it in post 12, but it was taken down.
The most recent reports seem to indicate that he did not in fact serve in Vietnam. He was in the Marine Corps from 1972 to 1976, but was not deployed to Vietnam. I don’t know if he represented himself as a combat veteran of Vietnam or simply as a Vietnam-era veteran.
So Monty provided the fact check concerning the so-called Vietnam combat hero so no need to comment on that. And here you are misgendering and using gendered insults on a child who had the audacity to wear a non-hive approved hat.
And you are too dishonest to comment on the homophobic BI contingent. Of course.
Sad!!
With two exclamation points. That should be Despondent.
So fucking what? He didn’t serve in Vietnam (I was going off of earlier reports I saw in the news, which were inaccurate). He was in the service and has still has given more service to this country than MAGA hat teen - and most conservatives.
FTR, Stonewall, I never defended Black Israelites or whatever they’re called.
No worse than you shit-ass armchair warriors cheering for wars based on manipulated intelligence (i.e. lies). You are a piece of skunk shit - and that’s an insult to skunks and their shit.
Asahshi, don’t you have nutty minorities to white knight, children to threaten and misgender, fetuses to abort, and military folk to spit on somewhere? You and your ‘condition’ have almost, *almost *, made me reconsider my opposition to socialized medicine. That’s a damn miracle!
That miracle is now making me question my lack of religious faith. Two miracles in one thread?1? That almost qualifies you to be saint ahahassi, patron saint of deranged message board loons.
Man it’s funny how all it takes to get bookings on national talk shows and invited to the white house is to be loud, shitty bigots and go viral with it. I’m sure there will be no consequences for encouraging this kind of behavior.
Personally I don’t give a shit who approached who and what each and every person there’s true motive was because I know without a shadow of a doubt that if all those white kids with MAGA hats were replaced with black kids with Obama shirts, police would have been called and shots would have been fired. So I care not one fucking whit how much these racist, privileged, smirking white dickheads feelings have been hurt.
“the tweeter was able to sway the opinions of many people with just one tweet. It’s the latest example of social media’s glaring problem: snap judgments, without full context, spread by people who themselves could be trying to deceive or sway opinions.”
