• "It Was Getting Ugly"- Native American Drummer on MAGA teens surrounding him
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Both are probably slightly in the wrong, but these kids are racist and trump has shown them that it's ok to say whatever the hell you want. "its not rape if you enjoy it" screaming, build the wall and other crap at a girl, previous school classes wearing blackface and throwing a white power sign at a black kid playing basketball at a school sponsored event. This not even considering what happened the other day where a kid who wasn't in the picture just magically showed up face to face.
regardless of the specifics these kids are clearly just awful people
Yes, it does matter when the media lies about events and prompts thousands of people to send someone death threats
You can actually hear someone seconds later in that clip say "he doesn't go to Covington" lol
I'm so tired of click bait and inflammatory articles solely designed to have no real substance and provide outrage. This story boils down to "crowd taunts other crowd, guy defuses it with music". Yet the entire fucking ecosystem of news is reporting on it. People are getting outraged and threatening others. People are doxxing over it. People are just shitting out verbal diarrhea that amounts to "orange man and team bad fuck em" or "orange team good fuck you" with some semirational people trying to fact check something that's not even newsworthy just because people are idiots and believe whatever they read. Not trying to be "centrist" but this whole debacle is zero sum. It's frustrating that inane shit like this is getting heavy coverage, outrage and retweets while we've got a non-functional democracy right now that somehow isn't worth a hate mob when that's probably the only way these shitty politicians will actually represent the common man and not corporate interests.
Victimization is solid gold when it comes to political currency, and both sides are trying to mine this story for everything it's worth.
Kinda too late for that. That unfortunately stopped being an option the moment significant portions of our populace chose to ignore any part of reality that was inconvenient to their beliefs.
What I take away from this thread right now is that everyone is shit for not telling the full story, everyone is shit for falling for it, and america will be officially annexed by Hell in the coming years.
I'm just glad I'm not living there but it's starting to spill over.
honestly at this point that might be an improvement, I hear they're equal opportunity employers
this whole thing is fucked
What really turns it into a surreal cartoon is the presence of Black Hebrew Israelites. You have people who are still analyzing the kids chants and gestures and facial expressions for hidden racism when the same footage features a group of bona fide black supremacists calling them crackers and niggers and faggots (one of them even drops an old-fashioned "coon") just out of frame. I'm imagining them in the editing room trying to mute the black guys so they can better focus on what these catholic teenagers were saying. 
they were doing the OK sign which wasn't even considered a white power symbol until last year. that picture you're referring to is from like 2013.
Ah, yes, the traditional blackout game with black facepaint and white lips. Al Jolson once did a blackout musical. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Al_Jolson_Jazz_Singer.JPG
could be one kid being edgy, could be just an attempt to use contrasting colors to emphasize a face and not thinking it through. i guess we just have to wait for the media to dox that kid before we hear why they did it.
nobody went blackface for any of our blackout games. and searching online the only time I find people painted entirely in black for blackout games, they were called out to the point where it made media news attentio painting yourself for sports is common, full on blackface I don't really think so.
there's no such thing as common sense, many people act before they think, many people are ignorant. i could see how students from a white-majority school might see painting themselves all in black as just that and not in the racial, historical context. if they were all up in blackface outside of a blackout game then yeah they'd highly likely be harkening back to the blackface of old. that it was at a blackout game indicates to me they're probably not doing it with racist intent. whether intent means anything to you is up to you.
I see half a face painted black ( the other side is painted red, by the way) and someone riding the lightning with red underscores under the eyes.
I'd say to not make the judgement call of "hmm painting whole face only black in year 20XX when historically this is perceived as a bad thing" is pretty stupid. I can't assign malice to it though, but at the same time like... how do you live in the US and not know this is probably a bad call. We've railed on people for doing this stuff since forever. But to circle all this back to the article, all I can think is privileged kids on a churchschool organized trip to protest a march ( ?????????? ) is fucking garbage as it is, the instigation by Black Israelites ( free palestine, by the way) is garbage, and the native american guy not getting nearly as much media attention compared to the shit-eating-grin maga hat kid is garbage. Media is fucked.
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fine with destroying the lives of federal demonrat workers but the minute it's some maga hat kid you have the queen of liars coming out to talk shit.
nevermind the thousands of kids separated from their parents at the mexican/american border or any of the kids in puerto rico
be careful that you don't pull a muscle reaching like that
Did the one edgy kid sneak up and paint the other two that are clearly in the same blackface in that picture?
if you believe that someone painting themselves in black, regardless of the context, is blackface, then i just disagree. it's reeks of superstition to me, a taboo purely for the sake of being aesthetically adjacent to the historical minstrel shows, which were 100% more damaging and offensive in the actual behavioral portrayal of black people than painting themselves in black paint was. who are you protecting by rendering taboo the mere act of painting oneself black when devoid of any racial intent? who does it help? what is the point of it? if there is intent on emulating black people, making a mockery of them, then yeah that is blackface, but if a dude paints himself black within the context of a sporting event where all the fans of a team are wearing black as a form of fan solidarity i don't see how that could be considered blackface. except, of course, if you're purely focusing on how it looks, which frankly is childish. the edginess and potential racial insensitivity of the kid who painted white lips onto himself certainly brings it closer in aesthetic line to minstrel shows, but i reiterate that minstrel shows were so bad because they portrayed black people as dumb and lazy, something to be laughed at. without the intent and act to go along with it, painting yourself black and putting a white smile on your face is distasteful at worst due to the visual similarity it has to minstrel shows.
Man fuck you. You know what they're doing but it doesn't matter unless you have a signed affidavit from them stating that they're racists. Then you'd just not post anything at that point.
perhaps assuming the worst possible intent of people, when context can give a more favorable interpretation of it that is also made more likely by said context (unless you have assumptions about them already), is not the wisest thing? it is entirely possible this was in fact an attempt to mock black people, but how is this possibility more likely given the context we have here?
i'm going to make an assumption when it's entirely reasonable. Anyone their age knows what blackface is. Why is it so popular to assume the best in people when they're doing something that ANY casual observer could see as racism, when several people putting on blackface in america is not at all a common thing?
except it is entirely your interpretation to view any black face painting as blackface, and not only painting one's face black in a specific context for a specific purpose. the context given here supplies a much more benign motive for the act, even if that is no guarantee that they couldn't possibly have had racist intentions in doing so. read: its possible they did this out of racist intentions, but given the context, racist intentions aren't inherently more likely than other ones.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-maga-boys-are-racist-brats/
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