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Hello and welcome to This Week In Social Justice
I'm Daisy Cousens and I'll be discussing all the biggest and baddest social
justice fails of the past seven days. This week we have the Covington Catholic
school boys and the major media blunder, the Australian fish-and-chip shop which
is being forced to close down because activists don't like the name and
depending on how long I feel like talking about the first two topics we
may even have time for a bonus topic so let's get started. but while I have your
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Subscribe Star account is in the video description. ok here we go. The biggest news in social
justice this week is of course the Covington Catholic school boys.
On January 18th a group of boys from Covington Catholic school attended the
March for Life in Washington DC. After the event footage emerged of what
appeared to be the large group of boys, many of whom were wearing red MAGA hats
harassing and mocking a Native American elder who was there attending the March
For Indigenous Peoples the initial reports looked something like this.
- We are hearing from a Native American elder in Vietnam War veteran speaking to CNN
after a disturbing viral video shows a group of teens harassing and mocking him
in the nation's capitol. Here's the video sparking 'outrage' on social media right
now, Nathan Phillips was beating his drum and singing an American Indian protest
song and this was on Friday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when he saw a
clash erupting between a group of teenage students and four African
American young men preaching about the Bible and oppression, well Phillips says
he immediately sensed danger. - This young feller put himself in front of me and
wouldn't move and so I could if I took another step I would be putting my -- my
person into his presence into his space and I would have touched him and that
would have been the thing that the group of people would have needed to spring on me.
- However it emerged very soon afterwards that this wasn't in fact the
whole story. Raw footage revealed that the boys
hadn't antagonized the Native American at all in fact he had approached them
while they were waiting on the steps of the Lincoln Center for their bus with
what appeared to be the intent of protesting and antagonizing them.
The elder whose name is Nathan Phillips and is a known activist and agitator got
right up in the face of one of the boys beating his drum inches from the boys
nose. Rather than approach or surround Phillips, or hustle him, or threaten him
with violence as was implied in the original reports the boy simply stood
there smiling and chanting along with his song. Their intent was not to
ridicule Philips on grounds of race. According to an email sent to the media
by one of the boys - "We were approached by a group of adults led by Nathan Phillips,
with Phillips beating his drum they forced their way into the center of our
group we initially thought this was a cultural display since he was beating
along to our cheers and so we clap to the beat. He came to stand in front of one of
my classmates who stood where he was smiling and enjoying the experience.
However, after multiple minutes of Mr. Phillips beating his drum directly in
the face of my friend (mere centimeters from his nose) we became confused and
started wondering what was happening. - In addition it turns out that prior to
being low-key harassed by Phillips the boys had been harangued by a group of
Black Israelites, who were there *ironically* to protest the March for
Indigenous Peoples. - Before you started worshiping totems *some other hate* about you
worshiped the Living God and this is the reason why this land was
taken away from you because except *even more hate* the most huh you're not supposed
to worship Eagles buffaloes - Rams right all types of venom that's right."
- A statement from student Nick Sandmann the boy who was confronted by Nathan
Phillips described the behavior of the Black Israelites towards the boys.
- "The protesters said hateful things, they called us racists, bigots, white crackers,
the f-word and incest kids. They also taunted an African-american student from
my school by telling him that we would harvest his organs. I have no idea what
that insult means, but it was startling to hear. Because we were being loudly
attacked and taunted in public a student in our group asked one of our teacher
chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the
hateful things that were being shouted at our group. the chants are commonly
used at sporting events. They are all positive in nature and sound like what
you would hear at any high school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our
school chants. We would not have done that without obtaining permission from
the adults in charge of our group. at no time did I hear any student chant
anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any
students chant "build that wall" or anything hateful or racist at any time.
Assertions to the contrary are simply false." - Nevertheless between the initial
report and the release of the contextual footage the regressive-leftist universe
and indeed some conservatives went berserk. They were calling for these
schoolboys to be hung from the highest tree. Normally I would have more of a
selection of tweets for you but in this case there were so many of them I
actually didn't know where to begin. The amount of social media hate that these
school boys copped is worth a whole video in itself. So if you want a really
good account specifically of the social media firestorm Sargon of Akkad made a
really good video of it I have linked it in the video description. Now you'd think
when this contextual footage came out that those media organizations who had
been reporting this fake news would issue retractions and that those who had been
baying for the boys blood *literally* on social media would take a step back and
take time to review their conclusions, right?
*wrong*
While there were a couple of lukewarm apologies from journalists and the odd covert correction from various
publications, there was no mass media retraction, no mea culpa, nothing.
Instead the media simply brushed it under the rug and the Twitter squadrons
actually doubled-down in their attacks on the boys. Since their narrative about
the boys harassing Nathan Phillips fell through they did what they always do.
They shifted the goalposts and started attacking all of Covington Catholic
school and everyone in it. For example this photo and video which
some obsessive social justice enthusiasts from the New York Daily News
dug up from 2012 of Covington Catholic students apparently in blackface at a
basketball game, abusing the black players on the opposing team. Even though
the New York Daily News admitted the photo was unverified they still
published it and they still pushed narrative. As it turns out and according
to a tweet from former Covington student Ryan Tola - "I was at this game seven years
ago. Seven. I'm shown in the background of this image it's called a blackout theme
we had school spirit we do this to every school no matter the race or ethnicity
stop trying to force a fake story to drive your false narrative." - In other
words this photo does not even depict the Covington boys at the heart of the
story, in fact they would have been about nine years old when it was taken.
This whole kerfuffle is representative of what journalism and the media has turned
into it's no longer about being the best it's about being the first. In the age of
the internet when the transfer of information is instant and anyone can
take and upload photos and videos the focus is now on being the first news
outlet to do it. This comes not only at the sacrifice of principal but of facts
as we can see in the case of the Covington Catholic school boys. Of course
it's actually not surprising that the media did this the narrative was just
too juicy. Young white teenage boys from a Catholic all-boys school, some wearing
MAGA hats, attending the March for Life, with a
Native American elder thrown in as the cherry on top. However this is now the
accepted modus operandi of the regressive-left so long as you're
pushing the narrative that you believe is morally correct then facts can be
damned. It's very very Machiavellian and very dangerous so ginormous, huge social
justice fail on this issue. For a bit of Australian social justice madness a fish
and chip shop in Far North Queensland is being forced to close its doors after an
abusive online lynch mob harassed it into oblivion. The shop is called
"The Battered Wife" which is obviously a play on words between the batter used to coat
fish and of course DV. When the shop first drew eye of three months ago owner
Carolyn Kerr explained that as a former police woman who had witnessed DV
firsthand and also as a victim of DV herself, she wanted to use the name to
raise awareness of DV and help to combat it. In fact the motto of the shop which
is displayed on the front window is "the only battering anyone need know".
Nevertheless the squawking social justice hordes kicked up a stink
including a number of politicians. They claimed the name trivialized DV despite
Carolyn making her stance on the issue and her personal context very clear.
After three months of abuse which was ironically led by anti-domestic violence
organization the Red Heart Campaign and its leader Sherele Moody, Carolyn released
this statement on Facebook - Hi everyone my name is Carolyn Kerr and I'm the
owner of The Battered Wife fish-and-chip shop
At the moment, however with deep, deep sadness that I inform you that we will
cease trading mext week. - This to me is heartbreaking
here you have a small business run by an honest woman who is a victim of trauma
and who has created a number of jobs which are so vital in small country
towns, beaten into submission by people who have nothing better to do than tear
other people down to prove their virtue. They are the worst kind of people, those
who pretend to be moral and righteous but are actually trolls and online
assassins waiting for any opportunity to strike.
Fortunately a GoFundMe campaign has been set up for Carolyn, I have linked it in
the video description if you would like to take a look. Enormous and very sad
social justice fail on this one bonus topic I have been informed by my
producer *subscribe to Pewdiepie* that we have a bonus topic this week. Animal rights
organization PETA is known for its controversial ad campaigns
however this latest installment is really quite something
take a look.
Okay I don't actually really know what to say on this one I think it really
sort of speaks for itself. How about you let me know what you think about it in
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