Posted on 01/20/2019 9:35:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
If you’re in a public place and someone starts heckling you, are you entitled to heckle back? How about if someone does something much worse than heckling you in a public place? What if that person in fact takes a drum up to you and starts banging it in your face? Are you entitled to heckle back? How about smirking? Are you allowed to smirk?
I think you are, even if you’re wearing a MAGA hat. Even if you’re an entitled brat. Even if you’re an entitled Catholic brat.
We’ll stipulate that the Catholic boys from a high school in Kentucky were a little obnoxious when an indigenous man named Nathan Phillips banged a drum at them in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday. But Phillips was being a lot more obnoxious. To put it another way, if you were minding your own business in a public place and someone came right up to you and put a drum up to your face and made a huge racket inches from your nose, would you be happy about it?
The kids from Covington Catholic High School in Covington, Ky., were ambassadors for causes much bigger than themselves: Catholicism and the right to life. As such, they should have comported themselves better than to jeer and do a tomahawk chop in front of Phillips. Ideally, the kids would have ignored him and walked away. Until about ten minutes ago, it was broadly agreed in our culture that kids are allowed to do some dumb things because they’re kids. Should these kids’ lives be ruined because some of them responded to obnoxious provocation by being a bit rude themselves? I’d say their reaction was if anything more restrained than you would expect from teenagers. I’d advise them to do better next time...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Try treating public school kids like that and see what happens.
It fits the narrative.
NRO still has the story wrong. They are an absolute disgrace.
These kids did absolutely nothing wrong and anyone who isn’t at that point still doesn’t get it. Not a single negative word about them was earned.
Why would the author write this? He claims they were obnoxious, but then goes on to describe how nothing occurred even after the various disgusting provocations of the various leftists on site.
NR still can’t admit they screwed the pooch ?
I’m guessing they didn’t watch the long video...
Should these kids’ lives be ruined because some of them responded to obnoxious provocation by being a bit rude themselves?
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NR just cannot give it up...they feel compelled to apportion some “blame” to the clearly INNOCENT kids. And NR put it out there in even far worse ways earlier before they pulled the piece. NR DESERVES to go belly up just as the Weekly Standard has, And the sooner, the better.
Isn’t is something that the only coverage the media gave the March for Life was for this obnoxious drummer.
They're VICTIMS.
100% VICTIMS of the 'protestors' and the media who did absolutely NO follow-up or fact checking to get the complete story.
Leftists wrote the narrative and the MSM ran with it without investigating the facts.
They're calling these young men brats as if they're guilty by virtue of waiting for a bus where they were told to wait.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The entire STUNT was probably the media's idea, cameras at the ready and all.
Including the GOPe dopes at NRO.
He claims they were obnoxious,
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How quick would he have been suspended had he said ‘an entitled Muslim’ in the same context?
NRO took down their first pile-on piece and replaced it with this garbage, still kinda-sorta blaming the boys
The Left hates these boys because they’re Catholic and pro-life
The Tut-Tut Cult of #neverTrumpers hate the boys because they hate anyone who doesn’t hate Trump as much as they do
It’s an absolute disgrace and they fully deserve get sued out of business over this.
Now the narrative is: Pro-lifers are racists.
Some are saying this was cooked up on purpose as a distraction from the latest Buzzfeed News debacle.
NRO, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowry, etc. are RINO globalists who are no different than George Will and Steve Schmdit. They should be shunned and ignored.
“Phillips, who claims to be a former Marine and a Vietnam veteran,”
He also says he’s 64 years old and a Marine. He might have been a Marine but I’d be willing to bet he’s not a Vietnam veteran.
They bought it because they wanted to believe it.
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