“I see a frothing mass of MAGA youth—who, since we’re taking in all angles here, go to a school where students fairly recently wore blackface to a basketball game—frenzied and yelling and out of control.”
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“One lesson of the past two days is that you will see what you want to see here, if you are determined to do so...” (Thread quote)https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1087773972261875712 …
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“I see four black men who seem to belong to the Black Israelites—a threat to women in their orbit, but not to random white people they’re heckling—yelling insults at the students.”
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“Then I see Phillips... walk up to the teens, in what seems to be an attempt to diffuse the situation. I see them laughing and dancing, red MAGA hats bobbing up and down in glee. I see them yell in Phillips’ face, and I see that he doesn’t falter.”
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“I see the smugness of a group secure in its relative power over someone more vulnerable than they are.”
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“Nothing about the video showing the offensive language of Black Israelites changes how upsetting it was to see the Covington students, and Sandmann in particular, stare at Phillips with such contempt.”
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“I don’t see how you could watch this and think otherwise unless you’re willing to gaslight yourself, and others, in the service of granting undeserved sympathy to the privileged.”
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I see a clearly disturbed man. Check a mirror; you will see him too.
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Cool. Is this quote about YOU
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Your so right, you are seeing what you want to see. You're not seeing what is there
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I see someone who presents himself to the world as an authority on theology and spirituality projecting his inner rage towards a bunch of high school kids who aren't mature enough to accept responsibility for systemic racism in our country. Grow up.
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I don't see anyone who has come out of this the better for it, including you.
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Admit your Mistake. Take ownership and move on.
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There’s been no mistake in assessing the behavior of those boys, none. All the kid’s statement proves is that he’s also a liar. In addition to bowing up on an elderly man, those boys have also been videoed harassing two young women, and yelling “it isn’t rape if you enjoyed it.”
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I’m talking about the video with the Native American “Vietnam vet”, which is a lie. The media, and wannabes like
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I know exactly what video you’re talking about and I stand by my comment. Those boys are little assholes who deserve to be punished for their behavior.
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Ok fine, you can have that opinion. What should their punishment be and what was their “crime”?
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Their “crime” is believing to their core the lessons they have been taught by their parents and everyone else in their little world that they are to be accommodated and everyone else is meant to bend. That God looks like one of them and they are special over any other.
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....wow.... you have witch like powers to draw that from the 15 second clip.
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If I’m not mistaken, your assumptions have been made from the same 15 second clip, right? You even specified you are ONLY considering that one clip so... don’t know what you expect me to say to that comment. There’s nothing to say.
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