How is that exculpatory and who said they were a roving band of hooligans? They were waiting next to the asshole Black Israelites, Phillips got between the two groups, many of the kids were huge douchebags to him. Were you never bullied in high school?
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it's exculpatory in that the first version of the story that got everybody riled up was literally that they were a roving band of hooligans who had approached and surrounded this poor native american man minding his own business, possibly? i know plenty about bullies thanks
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Replying to @chaosprime @FirstClassHack and
it started with abject fucking lies, everybody got a giant hategasm going, the lies came out and the hategasm was like "fuck you i feel good i'm a hategasm" and has been scooping up every shitty justification for why the story *should have* been true ever since
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It started with a video that looked pretty fucking bad and still looks bad even when you watch the full two hours. It resonated, not because these kids seemed like unbelievable monsters, but because of the banality of their douchebaggery.
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right. so we start off with a hategasm from a sleight-of-hand clip misrepresented in every possible way, then because it wouldn't be fun to acknowledge we got played and acted like complete assholes we find increasingly horseshit reasons they were BAD KIDS like extreme banality
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"god, can you fucking BELIEVE what utterly unremarkable highschoolers these little assholes are? dox 'em! expel 'em! get Joey on the phone with some bomb and arson and other miscellaneous death threats!"
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No one is endorsing death threats. Doxing was inevitable as soon as the video went up as their school was clearly identifiable. It’s banal because many of us saw this same shit many times in school, it just wasn’t caught on video. That doesn’t make it any less bad.
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this same shit: kids dancing when somebody is beating a drum nearby! holy shit, inexcusable! (not an exaggeration, i was told barely a couple hours ago that that's what it was.) mimicking back behavior being done at them! stop the presses!
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Replying to @chaosprime @FirstClassHack and
god damn, that really gives me some flashbacks of running as fast as i can from a large group of older, stronger kids who i couldn't actually get away from and who when they caught me kept kicking and punching me for i have no idea how long, they didn't want anything, just that
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I can barely believe we watched the same footage. I got nauseous when they were circling around him, with the ringleader saying “don’t touch him, don’t touch him,” because that’s exactly how the kids I went to school would try to start a fight in public without hitting first.
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holy shit you can't think of *any other reason* that somebody would say not to touch the dude in that situation? in particular given that no fight was started and it was Phillips who rolled up on the kids, not the other way around?
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While still crowding the guy in a circle!? No, I can’t. If they were trying to keep him safe, they would have backed away. Even if the guy saying don’t touch him was trying to defuse the situation, the kids he was trying to... prevent from touching the guy sure weren’t.
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do you understand that you are talking about *high school children*? one of whom was acting responsibly to deescalate a situation that an adult was blatantly working to escalate? and blaming them for you being able to Monday morning quarterback their conflict handling?
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