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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 3916983" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><a href="https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran - Reason.com</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p><em>Partial video footage of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday quickly went viral, <a href="https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1087010619549773825" target="_blank">provoking</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDebHaaland/status/1086662398071566337" target="_blank">widespread</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/686988268/video-of-kentucky-students-mocking-native-american-man-draws-outcry" target="_blank">condemnation</a> of the kids on social media. Various media figures and Twitter users called for them to be doxed, shamed, or otherwise punished, and school administrators said they would consider expulsion. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>But the rest of the video—nearly two hours of additional footage showing what happened before and after the encounter—adds important context that strongly contradicts the media's narrative.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby.</em></p><p></p><p>Fake, manipulated news that some will run with because they want to believe it no matter the cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 3916983, member: 1940"] [URL='https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video'][SIZE=5][B]The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran - Reason.com[/B][/SIZE][/URL] [I]Partial video footage of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday quickly went viral, [URL='https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1087010619549773825']provoking[/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/RepDebHaaland/status/1086662398071566337']widespread[/URL] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/686988268/video-of-kentucky-students-mocking-native-american-man-draws-outcry']condemnation[/URL] of the kids on social media. Various media figures and Twitter users called for them to be doxed, shamed, or otherwise punished, and school administrators said they would consider expulsion. But the rest of the video—nearly two hours of additional footage showing what happened before and after the encounter—adds important context that strongly contradicts the media's narrative. Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites, who were lurking nearby.[/I] Fake, manipulated news that some will run with because they want to believe it no matter the cost. [/QUOTE]
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