>For sure. Same with the "build that wall" chant. I don't know
>if that happened or not. One one hand there's a lot of video
>being released for this so you would think it would pop up
>somewhere, on the other there's not much reason to believe
>given these kid's behavior (and hats) that it's such an absurd
>claim.
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Yeah especially given their behavior and hats, its all too believable.


>Yup. if that was his real goal, he would have sat down with
>the man or reacted in some type of humble fashion.
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Bingo



>I'm of two minds on it. Part of me says I don't give a fuck
>what happens to these kids. Knocked out, expelled.. whatever.
>I think the people defending them are the same deplorable
>people who would never afford a minority kid anywhere near
>this kind benefit of the doubt.
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I dont believe that's true for eveyone defending them, but certainly many...including many of the ppl ive spoken with online in the past day. There's a lot of decent fairminded ppl in the world, but there's also a whole lot of folks who apply completely different standards depending on if its their "tribe" (ie white kids) vs an outside group (black kids). Like asking an NRA open-carry activist to imagine 20 young black dudes walking into your local coffee shop brandishing guns.


>But I'm also always
>uncomfortable with mob mentality even if it's coming from a
>place I agree with.
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See this is one of my biggest "triggers" if you will, regardless of whether i agree or disagree. I have very strong instinctive recoil against mob shit. Its partly why seeing those kids mock that man triggered me, and its why hearing ppl talk about doxing and doing violence on them and their families also really bothers me.

And it must be reiterated that some of the targets have been random ppl who were misidentified.


>I caught a really good documentary on Netflix last month
>called White Right, made by a muslim woman who spent months
>interviewing and spending time with white supremacists (she
>even marched with them in charlottesville while filming). She
>even managed to flip a couple of these people, and in other
>cases at least got them to question their views once they
>started seeing her as a person and not just a muslim. None of
>them had ever met a muslim before. She's not on some "we
>should hug a nazi" tip, but she didn't approach it as everyone
>was a lost cause. Her goal wasn't so much to get them to
>change their views as it was trying to understand what in
>their lives led them to this.
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I think i heard a podcast where the msker of this was being interviewed. It did pique my curiosity.


>That said, most of these people were poor, and her least
>productive conversations were with Richard Spencer and his
>"type" which is more in line with who these kids are. Smug
>privileged prep school, etc... I think it's safe enough bet
>that not not every kid in that video is a lost cause. At the
>same time, i have more important things/people to care about.
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That rich/poor divide is a very strong point tho