Facebook Bans Jussie Wrongthink
Facebook will not allow its users to read my commentary on Jussie Smollett’s apparent hate hoax.
Facebook will apparently not allow its users to say that police believe Smollett, a black gay actor, may have paid his two “assailants” to attack him last month, and blamed it on white Trump supporters — this, even though that is being reported by multiple national media outlets.
lots more: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/facebook-bans-jussie-wrongthink/
Hat(e) crime
The Covington affair and the new dark age of Hate Media
Face crime, body crime, clothing crime; these are the new offences that can raise the ire of the Left, so be warned. It is no longer enough to police your speech and opinions with the pieties of the day, correct attitudes will also be enforced, it seems. I draw these lessons from the Covington affair, which soared to prominence in major news outlets in mid-January, only to collapse suddenly, amid media embarrassment, as yet another Trumpian scandal that had crumbled to dust. For the same reason, it vanished quickly from Australian headlines.
This saga began on January 18 outside the Lincoln Memorial, where an Indian elder, chanting and drumming, was filmed and shown in a Twitter clip being ‘mocked and mobbed’ by a group of rowdy, gleeful teenagers. The boys, some in Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats, were from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School, in town for the March for Life, held the same day as an Indigenous People’s March. The video caught fire online and suddenly the ‘racist punks’ were being demonised by an online lynch mob for mocking and vilifying an Indigenous elder, Nathan Phillips, who was a Vietnam vet to boot. Phillips said sadly he’d heard chants of ‘Build the wall’; the usual suspects piled on, wringing their hands over Trump’s brutish America. By Saturday afternoon mainstream media were reporting the story, and by days’ end the boys’ school and diocese had denounced them. Death threats followed and the school shut down briefly.
Alas for those rushing to judgment, fuller videos of these events soon emerged online and exonerated the boys, who went from villains to victims overnight. The boys had themselves been continually taunted and abused by the (non-Jewish) Black Hebrew Israelites gang, whose insults ranged from ‘incest babies’ to ‘faggots’ and worse. The boys, forced to stay on the spot to catch the school bus, had won chaperones’ permission to try to drown out the barrage of insults with school chants and songs.
Phillips had deliberately walked into this charged maelstrom with some followers, making his way through the crowd and coming to a stop in front of one boy, Nick Sandmann. The two locked gazes in a lingering staredown, the Indian banging his drum and chanting, their faces inches apart. Sandmann, 16, occasionally smiled (‘smirked’, the media said) but otherwise stood still. This was the footage that sparked the storm.
At this point respectable media realised their error and pulled back, citing ‘extra nuance’ and ‘complexity’, when of course they should just have said they got it wrong. Apologies of varying sincerity were given, tweets were deleted. Conservative media piled on, crying fake news.
Those still committed to demonising the teenagers – who after all were white! Christian! Pro-Life! Wore MAGA hats! – sought new angles.
Sandmann’s smirk was disrespectful. One boy had shouted: ‘Rape is OK if you enjoy it’; the school was accused of dressing in blackface; a gay student said he had been turned down from giving a speech at Covington. TV pundits discussed whether wearing a MAGA hat was itself racist provocation.
Galvanised, conservative media proved the rape remark didn’t come from a Covington boy; school students habitually dressed up in various colours as themes for sports games; the gay student didn’t attend Covington.
Nathan Phillips turned out to be a liar of boundless creativity.
He originally said the ‘beastly’ boys were attacking the black protesters, ‘their prey’, and he was defusing the situation.
The video killed that. No one else, media included, could hear a chant of ‘Build the wall’. Nor was Phillips a Vietnam vet; he served at the time but never went to ‘Nam, although he frequently went AWOL. Far from being a ‘recon ranger’, he had been a fridge mechanic. And he had a criminal record.
Moreover, after the Covington incident, Phillips’ group headed to the National Shrine, where they attempted, drums banging, to disrupt evening mass. Guards had had to lock in the congregation.
Unaware of how successful the Covington boys’ stunt would prove as street theatre for his cause, and still craving his media flashpoint, Phillips had moved on to his next opportunity.
A cascade of media blunder stories erupted, and Trump bought in with tweets about fake news. In one memorable truth blurt, actress Whoopi Goldberg asked a daytime TV host why, referring to the Covington affair, the media kept getting it so wrong. ‘Because we’re desperate to get Trump out of office,’ host Joy Behar said. ‘It’s wishful thinking.’
An interview with Sandmann capped off the week. Looking terrified, the 16-year-old again stood his ground and told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie he had nothing to apologise for. She posed a ridiculous question: ‘There’s something aggressive about standing there, standing your ground.’ (Wha-a-at? Excuse me???) Sandmann: ‘Mr Phillips had his right to come up to me, I had my right to stand there.’ And what about that smirk? ‘I see it as a smile.’ The hat? Bought that day.
So that is the Covington affair, a rolling tour of media discovery where every fresh turn further established white Catholic teenagers as badly-wronged media victims, exposed an Indian elder as a serial fabulist and the Leftist mainstream media as, at best, judgmental, cruel and gullible, and at worst, as vicious, agenda-driven activists. These are kids, after all.
How many groups of teenage boys, waiting outside in the snow for a couple of hours, could pass forensic media scrutiny this well? Sandmann especially displayed poise to stand his ground politely in the face of Phillips’ provocation; unable to lay a glove on him, some in the media were driven to Orwellian accusations of face crime (smirking, menacing), body crime (standing) and clothing crime (racist hat).
For a hard nub of the Left, these boys’ crimes in the end amounted simply to being happy, confident, well-behaved young white Christian men. Many Leftists hate Judaeo-Christian tradition and culture;
to see it successfully regenerating in a crowd of young men, whose symbolic leader was comfortable and strong in his culture and his values, angers them no end. Those haters who persist are increasingly revealing only their own anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-Trump prejudice.
After this shameful episode #exposechristianschools emerged on Twitter. NY Times reporter Dan Levin is asking students to come forward to him with their stories. This war is far from over.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/hate-crime-2/
Ret. Col.: If Leftists Would Murder a Teen for Smiling, What Would They Do to You if You Weren’t Armed?
By now, virtually everyone has seen or heard about the minor confrontation Friday afternoon on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that quickly became a major, media-fueled frenzy.
The controversy focused unadulterated leftist hate on a group of Catholic school boys wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats, particularly one teen who had the glaring audacity to smile at an activist who got right in his face.
Unfettered rage rained down from the left on that boy — identified as Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann — and his family, friends and fellow students. The mood was exhibited via horribly slanted media accounts and social media commentary that included calls for horrific violence, including threats of death against Sandmann, his family and his schoolmates.
Yes, countless threats of death and violence were aimed at a 16-year-old boy simply because he was a presumably privileged, white, Trump-supporting Christian at a pro-life march who dared to exercise his right to stand his ground with a smile while a group of black supremacists hurled terrible insults at him and a leftist Native American activist beat a drum loudly and chanted mere inches away from his face.
In light of the left’s murderous and violence-seeking reaction to the disgustingly misreported story that inaccurately framed Sandmann and his classmates as unrepentant racists who instigated everything, conservative attorney, author and retired Army Col. Kurt Schlichter asked in a Twitter post how things might have turned out even worse if we as Americans didn’t have the freedom to protect ourselves from tyranny via the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/ret-col-leftists-murder-teen-smiling-werent-armed/
Letter: Sandmann stood his ground in defiance, not in peace
In nature, locking eyes is a sign of aggression--a sign of "I will stand and fight." To ignore that that is what Nick Sandmann (the Covington Catholic school student at the center of a controversy at the Lincoln Memorial last month) did is to ignore nature. To believe Sandmann was trying to diffuse the situation by standing straight and locking eyes with a man who is slowly walking, singing and drumming into a space that divided four black men yelling racial slurs at a group of young white students who have decided to yell back is beyond belief.
Sandmann stood his ground in defiance, not in peace. Nathan Phillips slowly approached him, singing and drumming. There was absolutely no aggression there. Aggression would have been swift and decisive.
Sandmann, on the other hand, was very decisive in his unwavering decision to stand and confront this man peacefully walking among the crowd. In his pride and arrogance, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he believed he was standing for America, he was standing for, at the very least, his pride. He stood and locked eyes with Phillips.
In his statement, Sandmann did not even acknowledge Phillips by name until he addressed Phillips as a veteran--another slight that sticks out like a raised fist.
The question is, what was he proud of? But this is a moment when truth needs to be told. He was standing for injustice. He was standing for white power over black power. He was standing for white power over Native power.
In the heat of the moment, I can forgive this stance. But to issue a statement in which the conclusion is "I was standing for peace and trying to diffuse the situation" is wrong. Sandmann needs to apologize. I would also like to see Phillips acknowledge and apologize to Sandmann. Why an apology? For what? To acknowledge we are human. We are imperfect. Even though actions are taken with good intentions, with just intentions, they can still hurt another.
That is the human condition. Both were right. Both were wrong. And the Black Hebrew Israelites, well, hopefully they will also begin to see a bigger picture.....
https://www.inforum.com/opinion/let...ann-stood-his-ground-in-defiance-not-in-peace
Nathan Phillips Speaks at Protest Against Trump’s Wall, Emergency Declaration
Disgraced Native American activist Nathan Phillips
participated as a speaker at Monday’s protest against President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall and national emergency declaration.
“I come to you this morning, humbly, request[ing] that you help resist this wall, this national emergency,” Philips began. “[President Trump’s] calling for this wall on the Southern border. Our indigenous people have been here for a memorial and the wall that is planned separates families, separates our nations. We don’t see where it’s necessary. We have so many crises here in our country.”
Philips went on to cite homelessness and “low job reports” as issued the president should tackle instead of illegal immigration. “We need to build up this country instead of building a wall,” he said to applause from attendees.
A list of participants in the protest includes the ACLU, MoveOn.org, Hamas-linked CAIR, and dozens of other far-left activist organizations.
Congress approved a border security compromise last Thursday that would avert a second government shutdown, allotting $1.3 billion, far less than the $5.7 billion requested, to build a border wall. To bridge the gap, Trump announced that he will be spending roughly $8 billion on border barriers — combining the money approved by Congress with funding he plans to repurpose through executive actions, including the national emergency.
Phillips made national headlines after a video of his encounter with Catholic high school students during a pro-life march in Washington, D.C. went viral. Investigators hired by a Kentucky diocese have found last week that the students of Covington Catholic High School did not instigate a confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial that went viral on social media.
Lawyers representing Nick Sandmann, a teenage boy who silently smiled as Phillips chanted and banged a drum in front of him, made a video several weeks ago suggesting that Phillips falsely claimed to have been obstructed by the Covington students, falsely claimed to have heard the students yell “build that wall,” and falsely claimed he served in the Vietnam War — which Phillips routinely danced around with the vague phrases “Vietnam-era veteran” or “Vietnam-times veteran” but occasionally strayed from that line.
Lin Wood, a lawyer for Sandmann, said on February 9: “Nathan Phillips will be sued for his defamatory lies.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/18/nathan-philips-border-wall-resist/
A Rush to Judgment that Looks Worse by the Day
News reporting is the first draft of history. It needs to be revised when details emerge that give an entirely different picture.
By now, most folks know that a viral video that appeared to show Catholic students mocking an older Native American man after the March for Life on January 18 was a fraud. A longer video shows that the man, Nathan Phillips, had barged into the group of kids and was banging a drum in the face of one of the boys, Nick Sandmann.
Unsure of how to react, Nick merely smiled. The media reported it as a “smirk.” The other boys clapped and chanted along to the drum while ignoring slurs from another group, the Black Hebrew Israelites.
Some of the boys, including Nick, wore red MAGA hats they had purchased in D.C. That alone made it open season on them.
The Left has pounded the meme that a Make America Great Again hat is shorthand for hate. And the apostles of tolerance sure know hate. Just let it slip that you don’t think President Trump is such a bad guy or that you think America is a good country and watch the fist of tolerance reflexively clench.
https://townhall.com/columnists/rob...judgment-that-looks-worse-by-the-day-n2541654
Nick Sandmann’s lawyers file $250 million lawsuit against Washington Post
The lawyers for the family of Nicholas Sandmann have filed a lawsuit against The Washington Post, seeking $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages.
Sandmann, 16, is the Covington Catholic High School junior at the center of a controversy after his face was depicted across social media, along with Native American protester Nathan Phillips.
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Attorneys Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry said it's their first lawsuit on behalf of Sandmann's family, and additional lawsuits will likely be filed.
The lawsuit claims that the Post "wrongfully targeted and bullied Nicholas because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red 'Make America Great Again' souvenir cap on a school field trip to the January 18 March for Life in Washington, D.C."
The lawsuit adds that the Post engaged in "a modern-day form of McCarthyism."
The lawsuit goes on to say that the Post "ignored basic journalist standards."
https://www.wlwt.com/article/nick-s...lion-lawsuit-against-washington-post/26417358
Covington Catholic MAGA Hat Teen Who Helped Terrorize Native American Activist Is Suing the Washington Post
Nothing says white privilege like being a smug ******* wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and impeding the path of a Native American activist and then, when called out on said ******ishness, you sue the billionaire owner of the Washington Post (when every damn paper in America wrote about that story) for $250 million.
But, as the imaginary assailants told Jussie Smollett, “MAGA country, b****!”
The family of the Kentucky teen whose smug mug went viral as he encountered a Native America protestor on the Lincoln Memorial in January has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post looking for some $250 million in damages.
According to the lawsuit, which has been viewed by the Post, 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann, believes that he was “targeted and bullied” by the newspaper in order to embarrass President Trump.
“In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child,” reads the complaint.
It added, “The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”
The lawsuit, which was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on their son’s behalf, believes that the teen is owed $250 million for ruining his lily white name, which is the price quadruple gazillionaire Jeff Bezos paid for the newspaper in 2013.
Of course the president, who has always been jealous of Bezos for actually working to become a legitimate quintuple trizillionaire, voiced his support for the lawsuit because that’s extremely presidential and unbiased.
“Go get them Nick. Fake News!” Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning presumably after eating a live fawn with his bare hands and then soaking in sherbet extract and laying for six hours in his tanning bed.
The complaint—which includes five attorneys because everybody is trying to eat off this case— claims that the Post published seven articles that were “false and defamatory.”
From the Post:
According to the allegations made in the complaint, Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln Memorial after attending the March for Life rally on the Mall when a group of African American men who call themselves Hebrew Israelites began yelling racial epithets at them. The high school group began a series of school sports chants in response, the complaint said.
Phillips, a self-described Native American activist who was on the Mall that day for the Indigenous Peoples March, has said he was walking toward the Lincoln Memorial when he encountered the Covington group. He was chanting and beating a small drum when he came face to face with Sandmann.
The Sandmanns’ suit asserts that the newspaper “bullied” Sandmann in its reporting “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap.”
It calls Phillips “a phony war hero [who] was too intimidated by the unruly Hebrew Israelites to approach them, the true troublemakers, and instead chose to focus on a group of innocent children.”
A Post spokeswoman, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in response to the suit, “We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.”
Also, when in doubt, if every in doubt blame the Hebrew Israelites. Also, am I the only one that thinks $250 million is a little low for allegedly besmirching the good white name of a Kentucky teen?
https://www.theroot.com/covington-catholic-maga-hat-teen-who-helped-terrorize-n-1832756704
Jussie Smollett arrested
SOON: Jussie Smollett appears at a bail hearing.
The charges: The "Empire" actor
faces a felony charge
of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report claiming two men attacked him last month.
What police are saying: Smollett paid two men $3,500 to stage an attack on himself last month because he was "dissatisfied with his salary," police superintendent Eddie Johnson said this morning.
https://www.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/jussie-smollett-arrested-chicago/index.html
‘Why Would Jussie Smollett Do This?’ They Cried
Clueless reporters in endless coverage
Brian Stelter, chief media correspondent for CNN, was baffled. “You know, we saw a lot of politicians and Hollywood celebrities and activists rally around Jussie Smollett’s side as soon as he made these accusations several weeks ago,” he said on Saturday night after his own network, among others, had begun reporting that Chicago police believed Jussie Smollett had staged a fake hate-crime attack against himself. Stelter continued,“And there are good reasons why they believed him. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would think of orchestrating something like this.”
Ana Cabrera, CNN anchor, was equally flummoxed Saturday night: “The big question, then, is why?” she asked. “Why he would make something like this up?”
CNN’s senior entertainment reporter Lisa France was comparably engulfed by confusion. “If he actually did this, why in the world would he do this?” she asked. “Why? That’s what everyone wants to know.”
A bit later, Stelter chimed in again: “This is about why he might — and, so far, we don’t know. But why he might have made this up. It just boggles the mind.”
It boggles the mind! One struggles in vain to think of another profession in which someone could evince or affect as much incompetence as Stelter and Co. and expect to remain employed.
Dr. Brian Stelter, in a Mexico City ER in 1940: “Mr. Trotsky, I’ve run all of the tests and I just don’t understand why you say your head hurts.” Leon Trotsky: “I have an ice axe sticking out of my skull.” Stelter in 1974 Washington: “I don’t see how there could be a Watergate cover-up since all of the president’s men have assured me they’ve done nothing wrong.” Stelter is the guy who can’t figure out why robbers keep turning up at banks.
Stelter was a toddler when a black teen named Tawana Brawley made up a story about six white men raping her, smearing her with feces, scrawling “KKK” and “n****r” on her torso with charcoal, and leaving her in a trash bag. He has lived nearly his entire life in the era of hate-crime hoaxes. He surely remembers the Duke-lacrosse gang-rape hoax of 2006, the University of Virginia gang-rape hoax of 2014, the incident just after Trump’s election when a woman on the New York City subway claimed drunken white men had ripped off her hijab. There are lots of other examples.
Hey, do you remember as far back as January, when an Indian man tried to portray himself as the victim of a hateful mob of Trump-backing teenage goons?
George Will once wrote of campuses, “When they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.” When the media can be relied upon to credit hysterics and axe-grinders the way campus administrators do, America effectively becomes a vast campus.
The reasons for Smollett’s hoax didn’t boggle anyone’s mind, assuming that the mind in question was functioning above the level of someone who eats a bowl of lead-paint chips for breakfast.
In America, victimhood is currency.
It is easily converted into actual currency, and if Smollett had gotten away with his hoax, he had every reason to expect that his vastly increased celebrity would have led to the salary bump Chicago police said he wanted from his show Empire.
If Stelter was awake in this country in the days following January 29, he noticed what Smollett gained after the phony attack: Nationwide attention. Outpourings of sympathy. Messages of support from the president and leading presidential candidates. Heartfelt encouragement from activist groups and high-ranking celebrities and also Ellen Page. Wall-to-wall coverage on TMZ. A coveted long segment on Good Morning America.
For two and a half weeks, the previously obscure performer was the most talked-about actor in America
, and this during Oscar season. (Sorry, Christian Bale and Rami Malek.)
As John McWhorter wrote in The Atlantic, Smollett was in search of “victimhood chic,” having “come of age in an era when nothing he could have done or said would have made him look more interesting than being attacked on the basis of his color and sexual orientation.” Smollett could “play a prophet out of a sense that playing a singer on television is not as glamorous as getting beaten up by white guys.”
Smollett purchased with his story things of immeasurable value: Attention, sympathy, love. The world’s eyes were upon him when, the weekend after the attack, he gave a tearful, impassioned performance on stage in L.A. “I had to be here tonight, y’all. I couldn’t let those motherf***ers win. I will always stand for love. I will only stand for love.” Sure.
Hey, CNN, you know how when the president of the United States says something you don’t think is true, you say, “Trump says” or “Trump claims” or “Trump alleges”? Do you know you’re allowed to do that with others who say stuff that looks like it’s probably not true? It would be good for you, and good for the country, if you maintained in good working order the B.S. detector of any small-market newspaper’s metro editor and expressed interest in seeing evidence before you started believing wildly implausible tales. Plus
CNN would be more amusing, and seem less like a deranged presidential stalker, if it started snark-chyroning people other than Trump.
“Small-time actor claims big bias crime (it smells fishy)” would have been fun.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/why-would-jussie-smollett-do-this-they-cried/
"If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell ... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise."
"He's walking out with big high-fives, smiling, laughing. I’d like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.”
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don’t be too nice.’ When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]. Like, 'Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.' You can take the hand away, OK?’”
Trump praised Rep. Greg Gianforte, who allegedly body slammed a reporter back when he was initially running for his congressional seat in 2017.
"Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!"
“The audience will hit back. That’s what we need a little bit more of."
"I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting or if other people will.”
“Knock the crap out of him, would you? I promise you, I will pay your legal fees,”
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
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The president in no way, form, or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary, and he was simply pushing back and defending himself.
--SARAH HUCKLEBEE SANDERS
New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski suffers from arthrogryposis, a condition which limits the movement of joints and is particularly noticeable in Kovaleski’s right arm and hand.
After referring to Kovaleski as “a nice reporter,” Trump launched into an impression of him, pointedly flopping his right arm around with his hand held at an odd angle while saying (in imitation of Kovaleski): “Now, the poor guy, you’ve got to see this guy: ‘Uhh, I don’t know what I said. Uhh, I don’t remember,’ he’s going like ‘I don’t remember. Maybe that’s what I said.’”
https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/28/donald-trump-criticized-for-mocking-disabled-reporter/
https://youtube/MZcuWba_HgU