we'll say one thousand blame points for school, 750 for parents, 500 or so for the kids
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
teenagers nowadays are living in warhol squared best they get used to the concept
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
They were waiting for the bus to go home. They should've removed themselves (+ adults) from the situation completely.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
I mean Covington is getting dragged at this point (with the rape and the blackface) so they are getting their blame points.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
I blame society.
― jmm, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
the parents
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
it takes a village
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
I gotta say, "Won't someone think of the pro-life, MAGA-hatted, teen dickholes" was not a take I expected on ILX.
Let's try to stay positive people: maybe their bus will crash on the way to their next rally.
― Andrew "Hit Dice" Clay (PBKR), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
People really love the good guy exception. People will break their backs trying to hand it out.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
We'll send over Prince Philip to drive it.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
L.O.L
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Damn, crazy that there's so many people worrying about whether Nicholas Sandmann, whose mother Julie Sandmann is the vice president of Relationship Management at Fidelity Investments and father Ted Sandmann is a sales manager for a VT Hackney "deserves to have his life ruined" over this
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Good thing you're here to cut through the crap and set us on the right moral track whenever we begin to exhibit signs of concern trolling.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
wow shocking the mob is taking the "mobs are good" position
― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
my take: medium-sized groups with meetings and discussion, mobs, and individuals can all be horrible but in different, dynamically awful ways
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
worry not he'll be sailing though his senate confirmation for a federal judgeship in 2040.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
I really wanted to join the mob when I read the Lucky Santangelo series in jr high. But soon realized I would never be accepted.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
to raise a chud?
― jmm, Monday, 21 January 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
mob mentality is what those teen boys were displaying while waiting for their bus.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
xp at Yerac : I grew up with a number of post-Godfather movie italian kids (well, the ones who did not go to private catholic school) and the kids who affected the "hey, my family totally has cool mob ties" shtick kind of ruined the whole thing for me
― mh, Monday, 21 January 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
I was young and those books were such great trash reads.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
Only if he's been keeping his calendars!
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 January 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
he probably won't face permanent consequences for being caught on camera in a MAGA hat smirking at a native american maybe in a more enlightened society
― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Feel like in a more enlightened society Nicholas Sandmann, whose mother Julie Sandmann is the vice president of Relationship Management at Fidelity Investments and father Ted Sandmann is a sales manager for a VT Hackney, should probably be ostracized for confronting minorities while wearing what's essentially a klan hood
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
There's some weird takes in this thread. If you think, even for a second, that they were dancing in chanting in solidarity, give your head a shake.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 21 January 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
Wait, are you talking about the group of kids who were nearly all wearing MAGA hats and who included Nicholas Sandmann, whose mother Julie Sandmann is the vice president of Relationship Management at Fidelity Investments and father Ted Sandmann is a sales manager for a VT Hackney?
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
I feel like for the libs handwringing on my feed, most of it was performative, to demonstrate "look, we're not all stodgy partisans".
Also the same people that called Bush "a remnant of a kinder era" and say nice things about Reagan
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 January 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
struggling with how Phillips walking over to the students justifies the students mocking him and Native Am culture... (not saying anyone here did exactly that, but I have seen it elsewhere)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 January 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
Yea it's the whole collateral damage piece. If a woman came up to me and criticized me, does that now gove me carte blanche to start throwing around gendered insults and yell "get back in the kitchen?
Like it really means you feel that way anyway and are just looking for justification to show your ass.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Was this in here yet? Covington Catholic basketball game, 2015
https://mltshp-cdn.com/r/1FDWQ
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
idk about klan hat equivalent but
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
What the fuck kind of high school puts a blackface video on their own Youtube channel?
― jmm, Monday, 21 January 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
wait thats an actual shitbrix koment for me wtf
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
The fig leaf is that this is a "blackout game", which is a real thing, but fuck that, these shits know what they're doing. In fact, it kind of makes me wonder how often a "blackout game" is used as an excuse for predominantly white schools to wear blackface when playing predominantly black schools.
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
they're from fucking kentucky, they know what blackface is
― Dan I., Monday, 21 January 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
"no it wasn't blackface, they painted their WHOLE BODY black and called themselves 'the Crazies' during school games"
Oh ok!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
googling blackout game gets me a list of call of duty hits but im struggling to see a context that could rly even pretend to work here tbh
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
anyone painting their face (or whole body) black is either racist or a clueless moron about the implications**claims of innocent "BLACKOUT" night school spirit shit are obv negated anyway by them painting white around their eyes and mouth
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
Major bummer here is the convenient appearance for FOX et al of Black Israelites, like they're representative of anything. Ppl who don't live in big cities don't get that it's always just three or four deranged assholes doing bible cosplay.
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
Add in a star athlete recent Covington grad is recently sitting in jail on rape and sodomy charges. His second offense. At least his scholarship just got taken away.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
you could really stretch and say kids are not aware of the history of blackface...but last I checked there's parents and faculty policing student's attire and behavior. girl wearing shorts above mid thigh=GO HOME AND CHANGE IMMEDIATELY YOU HARLOT. guys wearing blackface=I see no problem here!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 21 January 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
i think the thing that so many of us forget is that the parents and faculty in schools like these think this kind of stuff is "cool" and "funny"
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 January 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
like my parents are your garden variety racist asshats from mississippi and i don't even think they'd let this shit slide if i'd been so inclined
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 January 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
Is this when he was scared and saying his silent prayer ? 🤷♀️ pic.twitter.com/miz86vgN0B— BobbieLenhoff (@BobbieLenhoff) January 21, 2019
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 21 January 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxbNKipWwAEp5bK.jpg
― piscesx, Monday, 21 January 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
saving babbys
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, 21 January 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
i'm much more comfortable putting the onus of responsibility on the faculty chaperones rather than one kid
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 21 January 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Likewise. Social determinism goes both ways.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
I'm sure the chaperones are also lovely people.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
They really need to start taxing churches.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 January 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link