“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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1/2 I see a 60+ y.o. guy attempt to goad a group of adolescents. I see the same guy staring into the eyes of a teenager with a menacing look in his eyes while literally beating a drum.
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I see a boy standing with his peers being approached by an adult who then drums in his face and he does not falter. The teens also tried to diffuse the situation with their school pep rally chant. The adults there are the ones who failed.
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2/2 I see the teenager respond non-violently. That was after he and his friends were called incest babies and faggots. It was also after the drummer’s buddy told them to go back to Europe.
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If you can call beating a drum in your face diffusing... Everyone should have just backed down. Adults acting more immature than the kids. Ridiculous.
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Are you still calling for people to punch that child's face?
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Did you hear the comment we got it moment when Phillips leaves as in completely staged and recorded to get that "gotcha" movement ,Did you read Phillips history .....set up....
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Hmmm.. how interesting. In WHAT WORLD Is it an attempt to diffuse a situation when you GET INCHES away from someone's face and bang a drum? FURTHERMORE. How is walking up to teenage MINORS who are under verbal assault from left wing extremists, going to diffuse anything? Fuck you
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Then did you see where Phillips is lying about being a veteran? And the fact that he is at many protests. Including Dakota pipelin, with a upside down flag. These kids were set up. Plain and simple.
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In other words, you see what you want to see and nothing more.
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Boy, can you ever twist a story.
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Diffuse the situation??? You can't be serious
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You sure your name isn’t Richard??
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He was being completely disrespectful. He had no right whatsoever to get within inches of that boy and beat a drum in his face.
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and prior to all of that I see Phillips -- not his real name by the way -- invade their space while beating his drum -- kinda tit for tat
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What you ‘see’ doesn’t make it so. You come from a place looking for offense. Did you ever once think they were scared. I’d say they were out of their environment. In your eyes, they’re held to a different standard. You don’t have it in you to give them an inch, why?
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It wasn't an attempt to defuze any situation. The ones hurling insults were the BHIs. Why not go up to them?
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