Disaster Covington Catholic faces backlash after viral video at DC march - 4/11 WaPo countering lawsuit. Should get interesting.

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EDIT: Rubber is hitting road with the class-action defamation suit:

https://kiwifarms.net/posts/4281341/

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Update: Here is an introduction of all this from the perspective of one of the students who was there.
Hello Local 12 News. At the present time, I have an urgent request that truly is of the utmost importance, a request that supersedes my entire being and applies to the integrity of all Americans. You have probably seen or heard of the video of students wearing MAGA gear supposedly "harassing," "bothering," and "jeering at" a Native American veteran. This is not true and taken entirely out of context. I am a student at Covington Catholic and was present at the occurrence. Here is what truly happened:

Every year, my school attends the March for Life in DC and afterward tours the city. Our chaperones and teachers told us to be at the Lincoln Memorial at 5:30 to be ready for the buses to pick us up. 5:30 came around and we were all gathered at the Memorial. As we are an all-male school that loves to get hyped up (hence our cheer section's name, "Colonel Crazies"), and as we have done for years prior, we decided to do some cheers to pass time. In the midst of our cheers, we were approached by a group of adults led by Nathan Phillips, with Phillips beating his drum. They forced their way into the center of our group.

We initially thought this was a cultural display since he was beating along to our cheers, and so we clapped to the beat. He came to stand in front of one of my classmates who stood where he was, smiling and enjoying the experience. However, after multiple minutes of Mr. Phillips beating his drum directly in the face of my friend (mere centimeters from his nose), we became confused and started wondering what was happening. It was not until later that we discovered they would incriminate us as a publicity stunt. As a result, my friend faces expulsion for simply standing still and our entire school is being disparaged for a crime we did not commit. To reiterate, we did not partake in any physical or verbal abuse, did not chant "build the wall" or mock or anything of the like, and did not seek to incite violence.

After that initial occurrence, we were then verbally assaulted by four or five African-American men who called us "faggots" and berated one of our African-American students for being friends with us. The truth needs to come out. I pray that you read this and can speak for us who are silenced by the media. Here is video evidence of Nathan Phillips approaching the group of Covington Catholic students, showing that we did not approach him but he approached us(https://twitter.com/i/status/1086681831804674048); the later half of the occurrence showing Phillips' group inciting debates as well as harassment of the students by another group; and a second video of the harassment of students (https://twitter.com/i/status/1086796421226029056).

As you can see by these videos, the true story is quite different from that portrayed by the media. A great injustice has been done, and it is our duty to see that the truth prevails. Additionally, Mr. Phillips has a history of claiming racial harassment. I am by no means disparaging his credibility, but this should be taken note of.

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Links to many other videos of the same day, showing the black israelites....doing black israqelite things idk

https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/V...ng-Native-Americans-goes-viral-504596501.html

"WASHINGTON, DC (WKYT) - A video that has been widely shared on social media has sparked outrage against a Northern Kentucky High School.

According to FOX 19, the video shows a student standing and smirking directly in front of a Native American as he drums and sings, while a larger group of students, some wearing clothing that appears to bear the insignia of Covington Catholic High School, surrounds the man, jeering and chanting.

Social media posts from people at the scene say the Native American man was participating in the Indigenous Peoples March.

Posts on Covington Catholic’s Instagram page shows students from the school were in Washington, DC at the time, participating in the March for Life. The school’s social media platforms have since been restricted.

Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes voiced her disapproval of the behavior in a tweet reading, “As we prepare to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his work to ensure equality for all through nonviolent civil disobedience sadly still applies today. Kentucky, we are better than this.”

She has also released a statement calling on Covington Catholic High School to denounce the incident.

Covington Catholic has not issued a statement at this time."
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Facebook page The Other 98% posted a bunch of info
(Lol their address is "1488")
Also they renamed the school to Covington Catholic White Entitlement High hyuk hyuk

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Same page also had this. NOTE: The Other 98% had this image blurred by Facebook within a few hours.
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They have barely lost any steam. Still trying to doxxxxx a bunch of high school kids, Lionizing Mr. Phillips, and another reference to deep-south Dixie days.

Not pictured, but if you guys use social media to bring up any counter-narrative about Phillips’ actions toward the kids, or the overreaction toward the kids in general, I’d be very careful. They are out for blood.

The principal, the teachers, the main few spotlighted boys smirking, they have all been named and targeted. The situation is approaching nuclear.

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1/23 this is why we need the salt mine again

4/11 hoo boy this is still going? I thought it would have died by now
 
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The War on Drugs is a pretty strongly right-wing policy though.

The War on Drugs wouldn't continue 48 years as a partisan issue, through Republican and Democratic controlled chambers of Congress, through Republican and Democrat Presidents, if only one side wanted it.

The point isn't even about one side being eviler than the other: you should always be suspicious of anyone in government. Verify their claims, call out their blatant lies. It's just one side is more comfortable questioning the government in some circumstances. Go ask about voter ID, you'll have Democrats saying it's a government plot to stop blacks and Hispanics from voting because they're too stupid and poor to get a state-issued ID. Both sides are quick to call out abuse of government power of the other side but no one really cares when it benefits them.

There are no morals in government and I'm starting to think it's why the USA was created with such strict controls on its power.
 
To be fair these brown clowns are "Muslim" in the same way that the Westborough Baptist Church is supposedly "Christian". Because they self identify as such. While everyone else says "Fuck no! we're not with these idiots, and they sure as hell aren't with us!"
They don't identify as "Muslim" though. They take the Torah, aka the unabridged edition of the Old Testament, and say, "those Jews, they're nothing but frauds and shysters, this is OUR history. "
 
The party line sure, just like small government is the party line for Republicans. But when they're controlling the Senate and House they don't do shit except expand federal power.
Well if you want to play it that way, you can basically lay the blame for whatever current policy you want at the feet of the party of your choice. Which is useful for scoring political points, not so much for having a productive dialogue.
 
Well if you want to play it that way, you can basically lay the blame for whatever current policy you want at the feet of the party of your choice. Which is useful for scoring political points, not so much for having a productive dialogue.
The two parties are barely distinguishable as it is. What did Republicans do when they owned the White House, the Senate, and the House? Not repeal Obamacare! Even though that's what they ran on and "tried" to do during the Obama years. What have Democrats tried to do when they had the White House, the Senate, and the House? They passed a garbage healthcare bill that many believe to be intentionally shit. Not criminal justice reform, not legal weed, not anything major.

The two parties are in it for power, and any altruistic naive people that get manage to get elected are far and few between.
 
The two parties are barely distinguishable as it is. What did Republicans do when they owned the White House, the Senate, and the House? Not repeal Obamacare! Even though that's what they ran on and "tried" to do during the Obama years. What have Democrats tried to do when they had the White House, the Senate, and the House? They passed a garbage healthcare bill that many believe to be intentionally shit. Not criminal justice reform, not legal weed, not anything major.

The two parties are in it for power, and any altruistic naive people that get manage to get elected are far and few between.
No. You see the Democrats can't get anything good done and the Republican elite passes things their base doesn't want (like criminal justice reform) and throws their base under the bus in other ways like immediately jumping on the anti-CovCath bandwagon.
 
There are no morals in government and I'm starting to think it's why the USA was created with such strict controls on its power.
That's exactly the reason for it. You never let someone have unrestrained power because they will always turn on you. It's human nature. Just look at the mob culture we have online today.
 
I mean, what the left is saying without coming out and saying it is "Supporting trump is violence against people who hate him, so anything that happens is justified".

That's the default position they fall back on after all the bullshit is swept out of the way. Those kids were asking for it with those maga hats, since they condone racism and bad stuff.
 
I mean, what the left is saying without coming out and saying it is "Supporting trump is violence against people who hate him, so anything that happens is justified".

That's the default position they fall back on after all the bullshit is swept out of the way. Those kids were asking for it with those maga hats, since they condone racism and bad stuff.

Megan McArdle had a twitter thread pretty much about this. The left will come right to the precipice of admitting that physical violence is warranted against the emotional violence they're feeling, but will end up with the more acceptable 'they're racist, which means they're alt-right, which means they're fascists, which means they're Nazis, and we've all agreed you can punch Nazis.'

And this specific instance, when you get to the leftists who might accept that the facts are no longer completely in their favour but still want to double down on the 'white = bad, PoC = good' narrative, comes down to two things essentially irrelevant to the confrontation - the kids' hats, and the pro-life rally they were at. They don't care it made them look like massive hypocrites, because they believe there are no bad actions, just bad targets. So wearing the hat is an act of violence, and that allows the kids to be hated as much as they want to hate them.

I do wish there was more investigation into how, exactly, this became a huge news story, though - where specifically it originated from, who first posted it, who they are. Because really the story here isn't the confrontation but what the outrage around it said about the media, partisanship and the different realities people want to live in, and part of that story is about who got the ball rolling. Someone posted it. Someone shared it. Someone got it - and Nathan Phillips - the attention that made it explode. And I think it would be very interesting to find out who those someones were.
 
>I do wish there was more investigation into how, exactly, this became a huge news story, though

Yeah, this part of the story is never talked about. It was reported once and forgotten.

Twitter suspended an account on Monday afternoon that helped spread a controversial encounter between a Native American elder and a group of high school students wearing Make America Great Again hats.

The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.

On Tuesday, a source familiar with Twitter's investigation into the account said the company's initial findings suggest that the account was run from the United States. The source cautioned, however, that determining which country a Twitter account is actually run from can be very difficult.

A legal advisor to Nah Cardoso, the Brazilian social media star whose picture was being used by the account, told CNN that "Cardoso has never authorized any other account to use any type of image or content of her."

The account, with the username @2020fight, was set up in December 2016 and appeared to be the tweets of a woman named Talia living in California. "Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020," its Twitter bio read. Since the beginning of this year, the account had tweeted on average 130 times a day and had more than 40,000 followers.

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McDonagh said he found the account suspicious due to its "high follower count, highly polarized and yet inconsistent political messaging, the unusually high rate of tweets, and the use of someone else's image in the profile photo."

Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.

Speaking about the nature of fake accounts on social media, McKew told CNN Business, "This is the new landscape: where bad actors monitor us and appropriate content that fits their needs. They know how to get it where they need to go so it amplifies naturally. And at this point, we are all conditioned to react and engage or deny in specific ways. And we all did."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html
 
>I do wish there was more investigation into how, exactly, this became a huge news story, though

Yeah, this part of the story is never talked about. It was reported once and forgotten.



https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html
Yeah, they were really, really hoping it was gonna lead back to a russian somehow.

But to me, this part of the story isn't terribly relevant. Anyone can put edited videos on the web, and this video still didn't show anything that didn't happen. The reaction even to the original edited video was completely wrong. The more important aspect is that the dems have created a landscape where a person can be destroyed with just the slight suggestion they are bigots. Even if the evidence shows everyone else being huge fucking bigots.
 
Yeah, they were really, really hoping it was gonna lead back to a russian somehow.

But to me, this part of the story isn't terribly relevant. Anyone can put edited videos on the web, and this video still didn't show anything that didn't happen. The reaction even to the original edited video was completely wrong. The more important aspect is that the dems have created a landscape where a person can be destroyed with just the slight suggestion they are bigots. Even if the evidence shows everyone else being huge fucking bigots.

It likely does. I’m willing to bet if you were to follow the funding trail for the Black Hebrew Israeli group it would eventually lead to Russian Inteligence. Just as it did with BLM. They’ve thrown small amounts of money at the West’s wackiest nutcases and social outrage pimps since the early 60’s. At this point I suspect the goal is more entertainment than any actual hope of formenting unrest. These seem to be groups that even Len8n would have categorized as “useless idiots”.
 
It likely does. I’m willing to bet if you were to follow the funding trail for the Black Hebrew Israeli group it would eventually lead to Russian Inteligence. Just as it did with BLM. They’ve thrown small amounts of money at the West’s wackiest nutcases and social outrage pimps since the early 60’s. At this point I suspect the goal is more entertainment than any actual hope of formenting unrest. These seem to be groups that even Len8n would have categorized as “useless idiots”.
That's true. That's is what russia is actually doing, spending fairly small amounts of money to just poke existing issues. So it's likely they're encouraging the anti-trump stuff. And the media will not report that, even if they do find a smoking gun, because they'd have to admit they were the ones being played by a couple russian trolls.
 
On an AP News article about a chef banning MAGA hats (which he reversed course on earlier today):

The red hats, which are sold on President Donald Trump’s campaign website, have become polarizing. The hats were worn by some Kentucky high school students involved in a Jan. 18 confrontation with a Native American elder near the Lincoln Memorial.
https://www.apnews.com/20c71e35fa424e2dab4ee5c60884169f

Reading the article, most people would probably infer the students were in the wrong. They just won't let it go.
 
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