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For Phillips to play off of that to lie about that is uber repugnant. Even if Sandmann masturbates at night to dreams of killing blacks Phillips deserved to dragged through the mud, deserved to be dragged through a lot more mud.

Nathan Phillip's background was unfairly dragged through the mud by those seeking to either bolster the case for Sandmann and his group of teenage racists schoolmates, and the newsmedia who also saw an opportunity to continue the drama of the Covington incident (not unlike the Meghan Vs Royal family saga) so happily published this.

What any reasonable person would surmise from the situation is that the Covington boys and specifically Nicholas Sandmann acted based on what they saw which was an old native american man trying to intervene to stop the boys from responding to group of black hebrews. Phillip's prior conduct had nothing to do with the racist taunts thrown at him so that argument is a red herring.

Due to Trump's interference (which should really have been sufficient justification to throw out the case in the first place) the real issues were never addressed by the media and not properly articulated by native Americans themselves.

1. The Covington catholic school is in a predominantly white republican area
2, the enrolment is 100% white
3. the school allowed the boys to wear MAGA paraphanelia as they walked in public which meabns their funding should be cut
4. the school allowed the boys to protest abortion (a political issue) which means their funding should be cut
5. the most important point is the group of boys were caught on camera being racist which is a reflection of the community they are from which allows such values to continue being passed on to the next generation perpetuating the apartheid in US society.

Really? don't you think it was a story constructed as an antidote to the behaviour of the Covington school boys? Was Phillips a criminal? did he commit a crime? does it absolve the behavior of the boys?

Lets unpack what the Covington students actually did and not do that day. When they were approached and called all sorts of vile things by Black Hebrews did they immediately start brawling as most people healthy enough and especially teens would do racist or not?. If Sandman is a racist by this point there usually would be all sorts of offensive social media posts unearthed, a bunch of classmates or classmates claiming he said offensive stuff. Where are they?

Lets unpack Phillips's actions that day. He approached Catholic students for the purpose of what he claims was peacemaking. That evening a group led by Phillips apparently attempted civil disobedience at a Catholic church. Was that for peacemaking?

umm watch the original video, the boys were making derogatory indian noises (like out of cowboy movies) and doing the tomohawk chop which despite claims was a school chant was actually timed to ridicule Phillips. There is also the ongoing mystery why the boy's minders were nowhere to be seen while this was happening nor when groups of them were harassing girls while wearing their Trump Nazi starter kit uniforms. Everyone knew Sandmann's smirk was supressing the urge to laugh at Phillips while all the racist chanting was going on behind him. In my view Trump's interference in the case likely swayed the newspaper who saw the likelihood of a big payout so opted to reduce the risk and settle out of court.



How could this have been interpreted as inflammatory to the boys though? you are conflating seperate incidents

Yeah I get it AS.

Phillips isn't an angel. But think of the all the native Americans who watched him get racially abused on youtube.

And that is on Sandmann how?

In her career, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is Black, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant.” But despite support from the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor and faculty, she won’t be getting a tenure-track teaching position at her alma mater.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (Bell Tower photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
Journalism school will instead offer Nikole Hannah-Jones a fixed five-year contract

In her career in journalism, Nikole Hannah-Jones has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant.” But despite support from the UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor and faculty, she won’t be getting a tenured teaching position at her alma mater. At least not yet.

As Policy Watch reported last week, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media pursued Hannah-Jones for its Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, a tenured professorship. But following political pressure from conservatives who object to her work on “The 1619 Project” for The New York Times Magazine, the school changed its plan to offer her tenure — which amounts to a career-long appointment. Instead, she will start July 1 for a fixed five-year term as Professor of the Practice, with the option of being review

Getting tenure at university is challenging to start of with.

One of the main challenges is the lack of philosophical diversity in academia. I could probably keep my mouth shut just enough to stay out of trouble. But there's also the problem that with so many tenure positions already filled, you're just waiting around for people to retire, die, or get canned over moral failings. I'm not getting any younger at 43 years, and most of these kids are jumping straight into their fellowships as soon as they go ABD from terminating degree programs. I.

Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.

Two weeks later, she was unceremoniously fired by the news outlet after conservatives resurfaced old social media posts that drew attention from Republicans as prominent as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. In Wilder's eyes, her firing is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture.

Wilder, who worked with the Arizona Republic upon graduation until this May, became a national news story after the Stanford College Republicans wrote a Twitter thread Monday highlighting Wilder's pro-Palestine activism in college as well as some of her old Facebook posts. In one post, Wilder referred to the late Sheldon Adelson — who was a Jewish billionaire, Republican mega-donor and staunch defender of Israel — as a "naked mole rat."

Wilder, who is Jewish, said she would not have used such language today.

Wilder, who worked with the Arizona Republic upon graduation until this May, became a national news story after the Stanford College Republicans wrote a Twitter thread Monday highlighting Wilder's pro-Palestine activism in college as well as some of her old Facebook posts. In one post, Wilder referred to the late Sheldon Adelson — who was a Jewish billionaire, Republican mega-donor and staunch defender of Israel — as a "naked mole rat."

Wilder, who is Jewish, said she would not have used such language today.

On Wednesday, two more conservative outlets — The Federalist and Fox News — published their own stories on Wilder, and Cotton tweeted of Wilder's employment, "Not a surprise from a media organization that shared office space with Hamas."

Wilder said she received an "onslaught of absolutely vile messages" as the story picked up steam. On Thursday, her employer delivered the final gut punch.

"They told me that I violated their social media policy and would be terminated immediately, but they never said which tweet or post violated the policy," she said. "I asked them, 'Please tell me what violated the policy,' and they said, 'No.'"

Wilder has since received support on Twitter, with several prominent journalists coming to her defense.

"Amazing how quickly a talented young reporter's career can be snuffed out by a Twitter mob that decided to feign outrage over some college tweets," tweeted the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler. "And if [Wilder] somehow violated @AP's social-media rules, the solution is to offer guidance, not termination, to a new reporter."

"'Hire [Emily Wilder]' is something more and more people are saying," wrote Kessler's Washington Post colleague Dave Weigel.