More on the smear campaign against Covington Catholic students.

UPDATE: Covington HS closed on account of death threats

Predictably the media jumped all over the initial story, based on a two minute video excerpt. Here's my original post which has some good links. There's more to the DC incident with the elderly Indian drum-beater & the MAGA hat kid  It was media malpractice but what else is new? the media viewed them as the Holy Trinity of haters. (1) Young Catholic men, (2) pro-life so hated women, and (3) wearing MAGA hats! Holy Trinity of haters - let's get 'em! It sure fits their narrative.

Other people, like Jeanne Mancini, head of the March for Life, Fr. James Martin, and Covington school's own administrators should have waited before saying anything via twitter or any other outlet. Now everyone's deleting their tweets or otherwise covering their asses. 

Below is a good article about the whole sorry event - thanks to my friend Maria for sending it to me. Nice that the author confesses she was also taken in ...

Thanks to hours of video and a torrent of witness testimonies, the greater story unfolded. Phillips, painted as the victim in the narrative, was actually the one who impinged on the Covington student's space, where they had been instructed to wait to be picked up following the anti-abortion march. Prior to Phillips encountering Sandmann, a group of "Black Israelites," a well-known hate group, had been barraging the Covington students with homophobic slurs and racially charged smears. Phillips then intervened — on behalf of the hate group! He got in Sandmann's face, banging his drum.

Phillips, whose been on a media blitz since the narrative went viral, has happily claimed the mantle of victimhood. He told the Detroit Free Press that he entered the situation because the Covington children "were in the process of attacking these four black individuals" and that he merely confronted Sandmann to de-escalate the situation. As video evidence now demonstrates, this was a lie. The Black Israelites had been verbally attacking the students for some significant amount of time, and the students had not attacked them.

Sandmann, whose serenely smirking face has gone viral as a poster child for hate — celebrities from Chris Evans to Alyssa Milano have tried to shame the minor, and the hashtag, #ExposeChristianSchools began trending shortly thereafter — emerged on Sunday with a statement issued by a public relations firm. His family has been doxxed, his school publicly smeared, and his very identity turned into a crime itself.

"I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he has approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers," wrote Sandmann. "I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation."

Sandmann committed the crime of not being ashamed of his own existence. Without facts, a progressive lynch mob pounced on a single image based on its biases about perceived power in America. Now we know that Sandmann was accosted. But to be clear: He was supposed to submit.

The trick of social justice is to eradicate individual justice — real justice. Because white men spent the better part of a century killing Native Americans out of existence with guns and germs, an innocent child being provoked by adults — both in his face and online — must now pay, hundreds of years later. He wasn't supposed to smile. He was supposed to confess to his original sin of whiteness.

The Left has equated Sandmann with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The comparison is largely correct. Both were accused, without any credible evidence, of something terrible, with no room for gray area or misunderstanding.

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I retweeted the initial narrative. I had no evidence, just an image that fit a story I've been told a thousand times before. So I shared it and baselessly smeared a child. I now know that I was wrong. I am sorry. I apologize to Nick Sandmann, and I hope that those so quick to share the initial images will now learn the truth and make their own apologies if need be.

But make no mistake. For a disquieting portion of the American mob, the facts won't matter, even once they are aware of them. For them, Sandmann, standing with that godforsaken smirk, was crime enough.

 

 

Comments

[maria]

Thank you. More people need to read more, react less, and then repeat. Especially before they post, re-tweet, etc. The author of this article is to be commended for coming forward.

[Jessica]

I feel so sorry for this young man, his class mates, school and family. Celebrities calling for them to be destroyed should be brought up on charges. Kathy Griffin is a very sick woman. I'm proud of these boys for going to the March For Life and playing it cool while Two different groups of adults harassed them. You're right Tom! Social Justice has to destroy individual justice. These young men were targeted for this type of harrssment and fake news story. I'm happy the president spoke in their favor.

[Sweat]

This affair puts a whole new twist on the 'Enter Sandmann' theme !

Go here >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

GO NICK GO ! ! !

[Jessica]

To Sweat, I love classic Metallica and Enter Sandman is one of my favorite Metal songs. Good music to toughen up to. I hope those Catholic School boys get to relax and rock out to some classic Metal. That will make them feel better.