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Fast forward to 2:50. The kid stands there for a while but then gets out of the way.
Fast forward to 2:50. The kid stands there for a while but then gets out of the way.
Lol why do people go to such lengths to defend moronic American teenagers?
Lol why do people go to such lengths to defend moronic American teenagers?
Fast forward to 2:50. The kid stands there for a while but then gets out of the way.
The hats.
This cannot be about a bunch of people doing various thing that were wrong in different directions or unwise, even if the brats in the hats were also wrong (tomahawk chops at natives. Bad). This has to be about the light of conservatives fighting the dark of liberals, via the media and the mistakes we invite by demanding as a group 24/7 coverage that's live. And then you can find plenty of other dumb **** in the other direction.
It is a damn shame we can't just say: a bunch of people did things that weren't great; the "black Israelites" were bad, the Natives made a bad choice in detouring to the crowd of people exchanging taunts with said black Israelites, and the teens were wrong to do respond to that by making racist mockery of the Natives while surrounding them. And then the media was wrong, too, for not putting front and center (unless they did) that their breaking news report was only based on what they've got. And then we go watch the channel that gives us the news first. Etc.
the so scary red hat that strikes fear in the left.
This whole thing has just become so sad. The kids have yet to be shown behaving badly in any fashion and the thing has been retracted by CNN. The poor kids have had their lives disrupted, their school canceled, and their welfare and safety threatened.
Somehow, it's a left vs. right thing when it should be a moral vs. immoral thing. Anyone still holding on to their need to accuse these kids of something just because they wore red hats and the left might look bad if they admit it was wrong is just ... well, we're back to it just being sad.
I honestly don't care if it's left or right. The comments suggesting it's the MAGA hats when I own those exact hats (teo) doesn't attach itself to me. What attaches is that a large group of boys would have most likely had an awesome day going on a field trip showing their support for pro life. That would have probably been a life moment for many of them. It should have been. They could have bypassed a group of obnoxious black men, gathered at a distance and chanted their little hearts out until buses arrived.
The people watching over them didn't make that a priority, so here we are.
While they probably would have made different choices if they could have predicted the future, it's not as bad as this paints it. The students had a designated space to wait for their bus. The racists shouting slurs were a short distance away and showing no physical threat. The students suggested they would do school chants to drown out the cries of incest baby and future school shooters. The chaperones thought this seemed a fair way to counter a non-physical event that didn't require moving away from the designated area.
They didn't know that the professional attention whore would walk up on them and try to intimidate their students. They surely didn't know that the media would single them out, twist the story in the worst possible light and set crazies against them.
I only mention the MAGA hats because it seems to be a cause for so many people to attack them. It's the first sentence of half the stories about it.
Let me ask you this. If the designated place they were told to wait at had a group of 4-5 five people (men/women) pawing all over each other, yelling to the kids how sexuality should be experimented with and explored do you think the chaperones would have left them there to offer their opinion? Or would they have moved those boys as far as they could while still waiting on the buses?
In this scenario, they probably could have gotten away with saying something or calling the cops without being labeled racists. I doubt they would have risked missing the bus, but the actions in this different scenario would have been different, yes.
I think you missed my question. Would the chaperones have let those boys stand and listen/watch the sexually promiscuous people for 10-15-60+ minutes or would they have said: boys, we need to head over to this edge of the area and ignore those people?