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So Phillips walks straight towards the kids and then centers a boy out and starts banging a drum 3 inches from his face and the crime —- “Look at that Smirk”. If you watch the longer video if he would have went to the right insteaf of straight in the middle of the kids he could have went up the stairs. When did the right away be granted to the person beating a drum in your face.

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Obviously your not familiar with chivalric code, as it is written “Thou shall yield position to native Americans beating upon drums in thy face, lest ye be branded racist white wearer of the MAGA hat”

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He didn’t get in anyone’s face. Someone got in his face.
Lets remember there was a long video, after all.

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Yep and you can expect this story to be trotted around for the next six months as the latest evidence of fake news and the persecution of straight white christian males…

Poor victims…

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It was ginned up, but not by Trump, by the fake media. A white male wearing a MAGA cap grinning in front of a Vietnam War Veteran Native American who only wanted to bring peace and pray at the Lincoln Memorial but was surrounded by a white crowd.
Of course that was ginned up. It was the perfect left media theme.
Only…no Vietnam War Vet, he was not surrounded, they didn’t start anything, racist obscenities were yelled by a black group that was NOT being threatened…
Yes…I bet now they wish it would just go away.

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The whole story stinks. After reading the book “Likewar” I have started to refrain from offering kneejerk opinions on social media topics.

But the picture is perfect for outrage. A MAGA hat wearing white kid with a smug look on his face. That picture is powerful… no matter what the facts are.

This episode reminded me of the time when a group of black teenagers laughed during a showing of “Schindler’s List”

I could only imagine the ■■■■■■■■■ if social media was a thing back then.

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Only fair. If there had been no long video but only the word of those (mostly) white kids against a Native America Vietnam War Veteran then their statements would have been ignored, they would have been expelled, and this would be repeated as yet another Charlottesville and for more than six months.

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Not poor victims, wrong victims…so now it no longer matters.

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You’re right and I agree with you what this story is really about is how deeply divided this country and how Trump has only furthered that division through his lies.

There is no search for decency only “winning” through any means necessary.

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Agreed 100%

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The kids weren’t victims dude they were willing participants as was everyone involved.

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By that standard then it’s only fair then we don’t take anything that Donald Trump says to be true

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They are the victims of the fallacious outrage that resulted.

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They are deserving of as much criticism in regards to this incident as everyone else involved.

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■■■■■■■■■ They were targeted , demonized and used as objects of propaganda. They were vilified in the public eye for NO valid reason and subjected to ridicule and harassment for the soles purpose of forwarding someone’s delusional agenda. There is no fathomable way in which they were deserving of that. The TRUE villains here are those who put preconception above reason and critical thought to jump on the self righteous bandwagon. And these kids most certainly are the victims of that idiocy…

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Do you take anything he says as proof thereof?

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So they were participants as everybody else. So by standing & singing school songs, it is bad as black people who call them idol worshippers, I’m going to harvest your organs, you are children of incest, you need to go back to Europe. So if a bunch of white adults said this kind of stuff about black teenagers, said you need to go back to Africa, and the blacks just stood silent at first & sang school songs, and one guy refused to let somebody walk on through him, they are willing participants?.

I somehow would think it would be the black teens would be a victim of racial ephitets. And it would be right. But since it was only whites who are insulted, it is ok.

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I would think victims are people threatened with their lives, and their parents are threatened with their lives. Put there by left wingers.

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Ah poor white kids and their families having to go through death threats and the school having to close for safety concerns. Poor babies, but that smirk.

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I am also finding it funny the moral outrage over the Black Israelites.

Those guys are clowns and racist ■■■■■■■■■

They have been for all time.

Talk about low hanging outrage fruit.

At least they don’t dress like Sho-nuff from the Last Dragon anymore.

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