One of the most chilling aspects of the hatred fanned by the duplicitous reporting on the videotaped incident regarding the Covington students and the 60-something Native American has been the venomous rage directed against the face of one of the students, as well as the conclusions drawn about the expression on the face and what it might signify about the person. . . .
“Bullying” doesn’t even begin to describe what has been done to Sandmann by supposedly responsible and thoughtful adults. Even if the original story of what occurred had been true—and it was most definitely not—the depth of the rage would be way out of line. . . .
What is it they “recognized”? A face that is now permissible to hate, apparently; they’re not shy about writing about their hate and signing their names to it. That face is white, male, and supposedly “privileged” (whether they know a single thing about that person’s actual life circumstances or not). I have come to think of it in a kind of shorthand as hatred towards the “frat boy” in their minds.
And it’s not new, although I’ve never before seen a national eruption of this hatred expressed towards someone who is not yet an adult/
This hatred is bigoted and prejudiced, pure and simple. The hatred’s origins lie not just in the work the media had undertaken to shape its audience towards feeling this hatred—although that is most definitely part of it—but it also is an opportunity for the viewer to draw in all sorts of historical references to other white men and/or boys they have grown to hate, and to make often-absurd parallels.
Our political/journalistic class shows us what kind of people it is made up of every single day.
Meanwhile, I hope the voters of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio remember who hates their kids on sight, and vote accordingly.
UPDATE: From a friend on Facebook: “Is no one else finding it sadly ironic that the country is in an uproar over a kid who practiced literal nonviolent inaction during a highly questionable confrontation – on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Also from Facebook: “Most people, to include conservatives, are now conditioned to unquestioningly assume racism on the part of conservative leaning people. The only behavior which would have placated the mob would have been for the boys to have bowed their heads, averted their gaze, and removed their hats while groveling.” Actually, it’s not clear that even that would have been sufficient.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
Breaking....The school is closed today. Safety issues because of raging Leftists.
ReplyDeleteMedia Activists: Even if Covington Students Did Nothing Wrong, Going After Them Is Right
ReplyDeleteAP Doubling down ...It’s a Rorschach Test. What you see says more about you than it does the imagery. At least, that’s what I’m gathering from most people’s comments.
ReplyDeleteMore videos -- and interpretations -- have emerged of the encounter between high school students, Native American marchers and militant black protesters in Washington.
https://twitter.com/Died_Stoned/status/1087697948253831168
Tweet that projects violence against minors:
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/1087416956083351552/photo/1
Here is what I believe regarding freedom of expression: It allows us to size up others and determine if the individual is wise or a fool.
I oppose Jack Morrissey locking his account after the insane tweet. I believe Twitter should unlock the account and block it from being private. THAT is freedom of expression. The beauty of our Constitutional right is that it allows for the most radical of voices to be marginalized from civil society. Individuals should never be allowed to hide from their words, but should be held accountable.
I appreciate all the people leaving links, but I can not access Twitter, so I can not post Twitter links.
ReplyDeleteWell, lusting after throwing the teens hat-first into a woodchucker is nasty stuff, and showing a graphic with blood flying out of the machine is even worse. Of course now, the man who was one of the Disney producers for Beauty and the Beast and Twilight says it was "satire". Uh huh
ReplyDelete#Magakids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchucker.
So again it is the intense hatred of Trump that is projected onto those who voted for him, and their progeny.
Hopefully Jackie-poo will wet himself every single time he realizes that a few of those young men will be voting age in 2020. That is the fear - an energized, youthful voting block.
This was an organized information warfare attack. Twitter allows for multi-national political actors and we need to all be a bit smarter regarding the pitfalls of a digital age.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html
* Message amplification is the new game. I first recognized it with the story of Clock Boy.
The link you left no longer goes to an article about Twitter suspending the MAGA-hatted teens. It goes to an article about Twitter suspending some other writer.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what is going on.