Nathan Phillips, Native American drummer, antagonized a bunch of children and set them up for a propaganda piece

In this situation I think it's reasonable and decent for the kids to let the ceremony to go through, definitely not swarm arround them.

  1. There is a big difference between being unreasonable and/or not decent and being literal racist Nazis who need to be killed, IE: what people are calling for with these kids. And they arguably weren't unreasonable or not decent in the first place, they had no idea what the guy was doing (more on that later), he randomly walked up to them beating a drum. He never asked them to move, nor did his party... In fact there is video of one Native American trying to goad them (the students) into attacking them (shouting things like "Go back to Europe! Go on, hit him!", so once again, they approached to be confrontational.

  2. They didn't swarm around them? Why do people keep saying this? You can literally watch the video. He walks up to their group which was already massed. They didn't approach him, they didn't crowd around him, he walked into the middle of them?

Also in context, these are not just kids, but political activist, who came to protest march on one of the controversial issues in USA.

Indeed, they are still MAGA retards and were there to protest abortion, so yes they are still pieces of shit... That doesn't change the fact that this entire controversy regarding the Native American gentleman is false, however.

And I would love to hear how you came to your belief about his motivation based on the video

  1. The fact that he b-lined across the entire monument grounds right into the middle of their group?

  2. The fact that he was accompanied by agitators trying to goad the students into hitting him?

  3. The fact that after the fact he lied about the entire ordeal... We have the whole video, we have the full audio... No one ever chants 'Build that Wall' as he claims (they were chanting CCH and another fight song from their high school, and were doing so long before he ever even showed up), no uses any racially charged language, no one approaches/swarms him, no one behaves threateningly in anyway. Quite the opposite, he is banging a club on a drum mere inches from a child's face, that seems pretty confrontational on his part. ALL of this, without him ever saying a word, never saying "excuse me" or "can you step aside" or "pardon me" or "please move" or "stop standing there" or quite literally anything (no one in his party asks them to move either), he walks the entire grounds up into the middle of their group and never says a single word.

And on that last point and the earlier point I said I would elaborate on later... The students had no clue what was going on, you can literally hear some of them saying out loud things along the lines of "I have no idea what is going on right now..."

Let me give you some context here... You have these MAGAtards grouped up waiting to get on buses... They aren't there presently to protest anything, they are literally just congregated to leave DC. All of the sudden 'Black Hebrew Israelites' approach them and start screaming about their MAGA hats, calling them 'crackas', in addition to some extremely bigoted words towards homosexuals for some reason. The kids largely dismiss them, as in don't argue with them or anything. They start doing their school chant/fight songs/cheers, whatever they are called. Then minutes later, a Native American guy randomly walks up to them banging a drum and doing some chant. No one says they are in the way, no one asks them to move, etc., least of all that Native American guy. He stops in front of them and keeps banging his drum for several minutes and walks away. During his drumming, some of them continune their school chant, some of them stand around dumbfounded as to what is going on, some of them clap along to his chant, etc... NONE of them say "build that wall", none of them mock him unless you consider clapping along to some random guy who you have no idea what he is doing is mockery.

What the fuck were they supposed to think in that situation? Why would they assume it was some elaborate religious ceremony and they should move?

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