He didn’t just ‘turn out’ to be a mass murderer: He was a well known mass murderer at the time you were wearing his shirt. And young progressives today still wear Mao caps and Che Guevera hipster wear. My kid’s social studies classroom had a poster of Che Guevera just a couple of years ago.
I’ll put up a MAGA hat any time against a shirt depicting the loving iconography of a mass murderer. How ‘safe’ would you feel if you were a Cuban refugee in college and were forced to look at T-shirts celebrating the man who cheered while your friends and family were shot in the back of the head?
Nothing would change. Neither side is actually listening to what the other side has to say. Yellow dog Democrats actually tell each other not to talk to the other side. Facts no longer matter, actions can/will be spun, haters will continue to hate, etc. Unfortunately, this is now considered SNAFU.
It is all about ratings and clicks, which drives revenue.
You REALLY think that editorial content is presented without ratings consideration.?
Seriously?
Watch the news with a stop watch.
When a story comes on that DIRECTLY affects you health, wealth, safety, warmth then time it.
The murder in the next town? Nope
Trump saying something stupid? Nope
Bezos shows off his d!ck? Nope
Pelosi saying something stupid? Nope
Town expanding library hours? Yup
Apple releasing iWhizbang 25.12 next week? Nope
Carco recalling 3 million 2014-2019 econoboxes? Maybe
Iron man 13 sets box office record? Nope
Sports? Nope
Cute puppy gets adopted? Nope
Stock report? Yup
Weather? Yup
Old couple celebrates 50 anniversary skydiving? Nope
All the rest is grand drama to retain your interest.
And get you to buy the iWhizbang and see Ironman 13…which coincidentally have miraculously supplied commercials during the newscast.
This is why Paley didn’t want the news division to be a revenue center.
Sheep get sheared, pigs get slaughtered.
FFS.
Log off, shutdown and go talk to someone that you disagree with.
Both sides? No side? Because why? What is their motivation? Simple - same as EVERYONE else: Payday! Woo HOO!! What gets me the most $$$$? Validity? Truth? Bollocks, we don’t care, just give us the money.
All the while we’ll continue browbeating you with the tired old “fair and balanced” bullshit and other similar slogans designed to channel your thought process. It’s not the truth that matters - only what you “think.”
Because we didn’t. That’s the conservative narrative about what happened. But the actually true narrative is that all of this additional context did not substantially change anything. Where it has changed things, we have backed down.
But the conservative narrative is that we’re all SJWs who saw something that looked racist and assumed it was racist when in fact it never was. But that story DID NOT HAPPEN. But since we won’t give in and say that’s what happened, the narrative of the stubborn liberals who won’t admit they are wrong is spreading.
Unless we say “the college kids did nothing wrong,” we are called the bad guys. And we won’t lie, so we are called the bad guys.
That’s just the way it is, and hopefully we can have the character to remain steadfast in this, rather than buckle because the media this time decided to give into the conservative narrative.
They were supposed to be provoked into doing something that he could make hay out of. They didn’t, so he had to lie about what they did.
He was trying to start an incident with the white kids in the MAGA hats. That’s why he went up, not to the Black Israelites who were screaming racist and homophobic insults, but to the white kids.
Phillips was trying to create a narrative - racist fascist Trump supporters attack innocent Native American. The facts didn’t fit the narrative. So he changed the facts, and the MSM ran with it. Because that narrative fit their preconceptions better than the facts.
Yep, People should actually read what he said. The ‘peacemaker’ says he was trying to protect the Black Israelites, who he described as ‘prey’, from the children, who he described as ‘beasts’.
This is so twisted, so wrong that it makes me wonder if Nathan Phillips is actually crazy.
Apparently the process for young children to attack four adult black men involves standing peacefully for about an hour while racist insults are thrown at them. And everyone knows that typical ‘prey’ behaviour is to find a predator and heckle it. And the ‘pound of flesh’ that kid extracted from Nathan Phillips appears to largely consist of standing still while having a drum beaten in his face.
Scarily, many people have the attitude of, “Who cares if the kids were harassing Phillips or not - the very fact that they were wearing MAGA hats makes them worthy of punishment.”
Good. Maybe Phillips will think twice next time for being a jerk and thinking just because he’s native american he’s entitled to go around beating his drum in some kids face and lying about it later to get his name in the news.
WHAT didn’t happen? That the kids weren’t harassing the old man? Because there was shown no proof of it. None whatsoever.
And how did it not change anything? You mean to tell me that the video was false, and they actually DID say “build the wall!”? And that the Black Israelites weren’t really there? (BTW, both the ADL AND the SPLC have designated them a hate group).
They wore hats we didn’t like. That’s it. But they were not harassing some old man. Why wouldn’t you be happy that it didn’t happen?
(Oh, and they were high school kids, not college kids)
And they weren’t all wearing MAGA hats, either. From what I could see of that crowd, it was a small minority. And apparently those hats are for sale everywhere on the mall, So the few that had them probably purchased them there as souvenirs. The horror.
FWIW, I think the school should’ve told them to take the hats off. They were there to represent the school, and it would be a bad idea to try and display any kind of partisan symbol. I’d say the same thing about any kind of left-wing politician.
But then, I think if we’re going to blame anyone, it should be the chaperones. They were adults, and supposed to be in charge of the whole thing. I don’t know WHY they’re not getting more heat than these kids. (In fact, I’ve hardly heard any complaints against them)