MAGA Madness

I'm a bit late to the party for the latest left wing outrage, the Student and the Native American, but unlike similar outpourings of manufactured hysteria, this one is not going away just yet

First it was a 'racist white boy' being racist and white, towards an oppressed minority, the American Indian Vietnam Veteran, because a short video clip said so

Then it became a Catholic student who turned the other cheek when a race baiting, drum beating chap got in is face beating his drum

Now it's back to a racist white boy being racist and white to a national treasure, although they managed to replace the 'Vietnam Veteran' with 'Vietnam-era veteran' and finally 'Veteran', because the idea that this chap was old enough to serve in that war, is more absurd than even the looniest of lefty can cling to

And as Longrider points out in this post, they certainly can cling to some risible bollocks

As far as risible bollocks goes, this story seems to really be carrying some weight. It's as though the left are having some sort of melt down, as once again, a story about a white racist person being racist, has turned out to be rubbished, once the surface was scratched, only this time, they've had enough of being proved to be beyond ludicrous and are hanging on to the narrative for dear life

Some muppet called Jason Wilson from the Guardian attempts to explain to us racist whiteys, why the original version of the story about the racist white boy being racist and white, is actually the true, despite the evidence to the contrary, which is in his opinion, manufactured by the 'Conservative Media'.

Conservatives have realized they can construct a parallel reality and have it accepted

There's a lot of this in the article; twisting reality on it's arse and then proclaiming reality to be a racist white construct, while the arse is the gospel and undeniable truth
It was the left who constructed a parallel reality, by using a short clip of video to denounce a white boy for getting in the face of a Native American, when in fact the reverse was true

In just four days, teenager Nick Sandmann and his fellow students at Covington Catholic high school have gone from social media pariahs to conservative heroes

Which cannot be allowed, as once again, it make the left, the actual racists in these outrage outbursts, look like a bunch of dummies

Footage show students wearing pro-Trump Maga hats taunting the Omaha tribe elder. The relentlessly repeated talking point – that there was a collective “rush to judgment” on the boys because they were Trump supporters – was used by conservative anchors Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham to attack mainstream media and left leaning social media users.

There is no mention about the tribal elder approaching the protest, walking into the midst of it and getting in the face of one of the students. A student who does and says nothing at all to this man.

On Wednesday morning, Sandmann got almost nine minutes of airtime on a national breakfast program to make his case, after his family hired a Republican-linked PR firm.

Almost nine minutes? How much airtime did the Indian chap get? And notice the reference to the 'Republican linked' PR firm? It does not mention what the link is, but I'm assuming it would be fine if it was a democrat linked firm?

In making this happen, conservative media have normalized the boys’ aggressive form of political expression

Lies mean nothing to these people, do they. Standing your ground while someone gets in your face, all the while doing and saying nothing, is now an aggressive form of expression. You'll see much more actual aggression whenever a lefty goes to bat for their cause

What it tells us is that in 2019, conservatives understand they can construct a parallel reality and have it accepted. They can act in bad faith and prevail, using tried and tested tactics that liberal media continue to fall for. Those are:

Trust me, this is good

1. Reframe the debate as soon as possible

A particular version of events based on early footage can always be called into question, and another version put forward as definitive, as more footage, and alternative edits of footage emerge

That's how it works, or at least that's how it's supposed to work. We wait until the evidence is clear before forming a conclusion. What's being said here, is that as long as the initial perception of the event appears to show a white person being racist, all further evidence must be ignored, unless it strengthens the initial perception

Instead of asking why a group of schoolboys were protesting wearing hats that many in the community view as a symbol of racism...

Why ask that at all? The MAGA hat is not racist, even though the Trump Derangement Squad are framing it as such. If someone in the community does see the hat as racist, then that's their issue and nobody elses. It isn't racist, so nobody should be stopped from wearing it, just because of the wilful misconceptions of some people who are quite frankly, mentally ill

...conservatives quickly turned it into a game of who approached whom, and began discussing the teenagers as if they were literal martyrs.

Literal martyrs they are not, but martyrs to the anti-left cause, they well could be, because the left singled them out and lifted them into the limelight, by choosing the wrong battle
And at the end of the day, it really only was about who approached whom

2. Pick your narratives

So far, conservative media has been unified and resolute in hammering the narrative that Nathan Philips, a Native American veteran, somehow provoked the boys by coming between them and a small group of Black Hebrew Israelites, to whose insults they had responded with chants.

Really? The only provocation was a man walking into a protest he disagreed with and getting in the personal space of one of the protesters. The reaction from the boys is mostly one of overall bemusement at what was happening

3. Focus on the extremes of the other side

Another tactic conservative media uses is to only consider the most appalling versions of opposing arguments, and to focus their audience’s anger on reliable scapegoats.
To avoid confronting reasonable arguments or new evidence, conservatives emphasize the worst of the other side – like tweets calling for violence or doxxing

That's actually a very good place to focus your attention, as the very violent reaction from the left was not the 'extremes of the other side', but more accurately, just another day at the mill for the liberal left
Every time something like this happens, the left expose themselves as the violent, race baiting, bigots they are. And it's not just a few bad apples, it's the majority

As of Wednesday, as a result of these well-worn tactics, liberal media has almost completely backed away from their initial, justified take on the story

'Justified'

The original take on the story, white man being racist to native American and should be hounded and vilified, was justified, even though subsequent evidence showed that to be complete and utter bollocks

The left is really having a problem with this one. Every time they stand up and cry 'racist', reality seems to slap them right back down, just like some international game of SJW Whack-A-Mole. Well this time they don't seem to be giving in

Which is fine. The more they get lost in the crazy woods, trying to justify their own intolerant and downright crazy beliefs, the more people will begin to see them for what they really are. The liberal left really need to pick their battles better

Quite frankly, I'm baffled that this story made it public at all. Literally nothing happened. A guy banged a drum and another guy watched. Nothing was racist, nothing was misogynistic, nobody got punched, nothing happened

But. White guy in a MAGA hat...