You may be right, but that doesn't mean there should be any less fallout for what they do. You have to learn that that shit ain't cool
You jest but it's absolutely the case.
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Trump supporter gleefully bothers a Native American protestor at the Indigenous Peoples March
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I'm guessing the real issue here is that a bunch of white kids wearing #MAGA gear showed up at an indegenious rally.
They're not right at all. The school has a history of systematic racism. It's been posted right in this thread.
Were they protesting the indigenous rally? What were they even doing there?
If there side of the story is to be believed they were all just meeting there to catch a bus to the March for life rally.
I think I am less infuriated by the typical "kids" angle than I am of the intent by all these sudden convenient newcomers across these two threads reposting the Twitter thread by Arlen Parsa and similar sentiments to protect these racist asshats under the guise that it "doesn't solve the issue" and "makes you out to be a mob as well."
The suggested call to action is instead to fix the root causes of the problem by "lifting up the heroes." Yes, fix the root causes of the problem by ignoring them altogether and instead lying to the vocal bystanders and actual victims that everything is going to be okay in a situation where it's been made expressly clear that nothing will be done because punishing white people for their racism is, in some way, always unjust.
I ranted elsewhere that this always happens, and when you think about it it's a clever scheme. Do everything in one's power to deflect blame and advocate for mercy just long enough that the anger recedes and people forget, and down the line when someone actually does remember all you have to do is go "that was so long ago; why are you still mad about it?" to dismiss the fact that nothing was ever actually done and thus that hurt still remains unaddressed.
Y'all are really good at doing nothing. Never trying to compensate the victims properly, never following through on compensation when actually "forced" to, never actually making good on those calls to action, never holding the perpetrators to task because we simply can't ruin Thanksgiving dinner. Y'all just simply do nothing.
The history of this country is nothing but an ever-mounting moral debt owed towards the minorities of this country that keeps getting put off because the fear of actually being told, under no uncertain terms, the rent is due today or else, causes you to shut down, to deflect, to make up excuses, and to procrastinate; to push off that due date just a little bit longer. No one wants to be the one to actually bite the bullet and take some responsibility because to do so would be to inherently admit to an immorality so heinous that even the devil cannot fathom. It's fear; fear not of the "other," but fear that the other is entirely justified in their rage.
Because if people out here are fist-fighting each other over stupid border fences, the uncomfortable, unanswerable question becomes "What the hell then are the consequences of centuries of collective inaction towards the systemic disenfranchisement and violence on minorities?"
Thus, these students and the faculty, like many others before them, will get off scot free, because if they actually get their lives ruined for this, it would be a figurative open season on pretty much everyone else, including the ever-so-valued loved ones that minorities are always supposed to take into account and coddle. We can't possibly have Uncle Ben losing his livelihood over a few drunken rants. He matters too.
Nothing ever changes.
The black israelites were also mocking the Natives, caling them all sorts of slurs and saying they would all burn in hell. Not to mention the abhorrent shit they were saying about homosexuals. MAGA kids were clearly antagonizing and are little fuckers, but the whole thing started with the little douchebags gathering around the israelites as they ranted and screamed about how we shouldn't be "giving rights to faggots."
The only people here on the right side are the Natives.
The kids were all literally there for the March for Life; an inherently political event.
Let's see if they can be counted:
- They're kids
- But the black people made them do it
- Their parents
- Trolling
- Actually, they're harassed by the native Americans
- They were just innocently doing school chants
- The kid staring at the elder actually did nothing wrong
- Xbox culture
- They were physically assaulted by a drum
- The school
- The president
- WE made them do it.. as a society
My point is that we need to stop shifting the blame off of the MAGA kids. Yes the black Israelites are fucked up and should be ridiculed for their rhetoric. But the kids decided to throw a swastika on their head and shamed and insulted native Americans all on their own, and even told them their land was rightfully stolen.
No one else made them do this, it's on them.
Basically. Children of color are viewed as and tried as adults while white people get to be kids damn near forever. I remember pundits describing Kushner as a "kid" and he was 36 years old.
Even after getting shit on by the Israelites with some of the worst slurs one could utter, Nathan Philips, being the badass that he is, walks his way in between them and the Trump Youth as shit was starting to boil over and diverts the legion's ire onto himself.
Just, infinite respect holy shit.
Just, infinite respect holy shit.
Sadly, I'm not joking. I'm just reminded of that story of some white woman accusing a 9-year old black boy of groping her.
Shit, they basically give Trump the benefit of the doubt like he's a damn kid
It's exactly as MLK stated in that white moderates are more interested in keeping order than seeing any kind of justice.
yes, but what is the story you wish to paint for us today? speak plainly and clearly.
I'm not shifting blame off of anyone. Those MAGA kids are little racist dumb fucks, but I also see misinformed people on social media and whatnot painting the black israelites as victims here too, which is certainly not the case.
I'm guessing the Native American man saying he felt scared for his life when these white teenagers blocked off him from leaving means nothing to you. Oh please..
It is interesting how Nathan Phillips' own recounting of the event has been ignored when he was literally in-between both groups.
Are you suggesting that DarthWalden deserves a ban for his posts?
But you are, because you're arguing that the black Israelites started it, when they did not. Even if their views are horrible and the shit they said was vile, they are still minorities. The kids are still MAGA wearing racist assholes who provoked said minorities. You cannot take that away from them or dismiss that simple fact. Again, nothing excuses some of the vile shit flying out of their mouth about LGBTQ and native American people, but they were still provoked by 100 kids sporting and supporting MAGA. So no, they absolutely did not start that confrontation.
You don't roll 100 deep in MAGA gear by accident, come the fuck on.
I hope the kids, parents, school personnel, etc are all held responsible apart from merely shamed. I hope it's far reaching and swift because these fuckers can't be allowed to fester.
I dislike everything about this timeline we are in that's helmed by the orange clown in charge but I take solace in the fact that it is now easier to weed out his base out and completely hold them accountable.
I dislike everything about this timeline we are in that's helmed by the orange clown in charge but I take solace in the fact that it is now easier to weed out his base out and completely hold them accountable.
As it seems we have two parallel threads, please move this discussion here:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sc...ents-that-harassed-native-american-man.94588/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/sc...ents-that-harassed-native-american-man.94588/
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