Einherjar86
Active Member
It's at least as antagonistic as a smirk, and it was the catalyst of the smirk in the first place.
It's antagonistic because if someone bangs a drum and chants in a language you don't understand, in your face, in that situation, and then later the chanting spastic admits he confronted them in defence of the Black Israelites, what was it but antagonistic?
It could be a number of other things. You're choosing to see it as antagonistic.
They laughed and smirked and danced around in the middle of being told to go back to Europe, how Trump is a homo, how fellow black students were called ni**ers, how it was said that they will steal livers or some weird shit, some fucking retarded activist in his 60's banging a drum and chanting a protest song at them in a different language. I doubt many people would have handled that situation any better than they did.
So do I. But being the best at something doesn't mean you don't deserve criticism.
Neither did they, and nothing they did was antagonistic or disrespectful, unless you're suggesting there be no standard for what does or doesn't get respect?
I don't think they were antagonistic. You're caught all up on this idea of antagonism, and I think it derives from your need to assign blame.
I'm sure that's it, and not because he walked over to them and started doing it randomly, for reasons later revealed to be in opposition to the students.
As you so delicately put it, he was a "toothless military refrigerator repairman" banging a drum. I don't buy that a large group of young, athletic boys felt antagonized.
No, the people reacting to the hats started the conversation.
Yes, absolutely. I only meant that a hat with a political motto is a statement of sorts.
You apply more nefarious intentions to the parents of the kids than anybody actually involved. Hilarious bias.
It was pure speculation. We're all speculating. You think the situation was "antagonistic," but that's an interpretation--not a fact.
Nathan Phillips admitted that he walked to the kids and started drumming and chanting because he felt the kids were being hateful and preying on the Black Israelites, therefore what he did fits perfectly into the definition of being antagonistic.
If you take Phillips at his word, you could argue that what he was doing was the opposite of antagonistic--that he was trying to pacify things.