Exactly what he's doing: beating a drum and chanting.
Disingenuous. He walked away from his group, over to another group, and banged his drum and chanted directly at the kids, specifically in the face of one of them, in an antagonistic fashion. It was a protest chant of some kind and he said he did so because he thought the kids were preying on and being hateful to the Black Israelites.
Why does that antagonistic chant and drumming deserve respect? It's akin to saying you should respect an older man who is standing in the middle of a group you're with chanting "build the wall" or "no Trump no KKK no fascist U.S.A."
Are you appealing to a generic "respect your elders" sentiment that implies elders should be respected even when they're being cunts to you?
I just find the whole thing fascinating--how the backlash tries to paint the kids as innocent and Nathan Phillips as a "lying cunt" (I think these were your words). If you really want to stick to the language used, he didn't lie about anything (as far as anyone knows). He appears to have called himself a "Vietnam times vet" or something to that effect, meaning he served around the time of the Vietnam War. Calling oneself a vet doesn't necessarily mean that one saw combat or was deployed. People just make the assumption that service = combat. He still served in the military.
Stolen valor: Native American activist Nathan Phillips lied that he was a 'Vietnam vet' in Facebook video.
Absolutely using the buzzphrase "Vietnam veteran" to manipulate people, except usually this is done to manipulate the right.
They were there at a pro-life rally and wandered over to an area where the Indigenous Peoples' march was being held (of course, this was where they were supposed to get picked up).
You trashed your own point in the same sentence you made it. They wondered over to the designated pick-up point where they likely had no clue a Native American March was going to happen, and I'm basing this on when you said the March was moving from place to place.
It was obvious from the get-go that these kids were privileged little pricks who weren't afraid to flaunt their privilege like the little assholes they've been raised to become.
The privilege to wear a hat while out on a school sanctioned political excursion. Let's not talk about the privilege of walking up to a group of kids doing nothing to you and antagonistically banging a drum and chanting at them, and then telling the media they harassed you.
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that is privilege. He knew the situation was a win/win for him. If they attack him, he wins, MAGA kids bad. If they smirk at him, he wins, MAGA kids bad. If they try to chant or dance along with him which will be interpreted as mockery, he wins, MAGA kids bad. If they walk away, he wins, he made the bad MAGA kids run away with his warrior chant.
If they were from my poor-ass region of birth, they'd be wearing MAGA hats, but they wouldn't have the privilege to chant "Build the Wall" at a bunch of bigot black nationalists without fear of reprisal in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and they certainly wouldn't have the money to become players in the spin game of today's culture wars.
When did they chant "build the wall"?
I emphasized their clothing, not the color of their skin. The hats were what people reacted to, not that they were white. I never said or insinuated that the problem was their skin color.
They got told to "go back to Europe" because of their hats, not their race. Got it.
All I'm saying is the kids couldn't not have known the impact their paraphernalia would have had.
Why do you assume
high school kids could or should have ever known the true impact of anything they did?
And no, they probably didn't wear them anticipating that Native Americans would see them. But they could have taken them off at any time, and they didn't. That's a choice, and it's one they're entitled to. But then they should expect a dialogue.
I love the slipperiness of your wording, "a dialogue" haha. Is that what you call majority of or at least the loudest reactions to that event? A dialogue? The only dialogue I see is the people who reacted terribly looking in on themselves.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though, because I generally avoid this thread. Due to it being a cesspool of opinions I find offensive and archaic. So I haven’t read too many of his debates.
Oh please, it's not that bad here, or you're just sensitive as fuck.
I guarantee they're learning outrage... from their outraged parents.
Yeah those parents have no justification to be outraged that their kids received death threats, people are trying to have them expelled, talking about how they're the face of white supremacy and an oppressive patriarchy, talking about how they'd punish them with graphic detail, basically shitting all over them, potentially destroying their future by running their names and faces through the mud and just generally treating them like they're subhuman and evil.
Pure faux-outrage, only the people defending some toothless military refrigerator repairman deserve to be outraged.
embarrassing
