Large mobs of Antifa people have surrounded and harassed people before, and no, it did not go viral across mainstream news outlets like CNN.Bootstrap wrote:I'm trying to picture this. Say, 70 young black men wearing Antifa clothing, mocking a white guy on the Washington Mall, and it doesn't go viral? That's hard for me to imagine.Robert wrote:Nope. The same as if they were wearing Antifa clothing, it would have been ignored too.Bootstrap wrote:You don't think the same men wearing Amish clothing would have been treated the same way?
That probably would go viral, but in the Sandmann incident, there were not 70 men “mocking” an Indian guy. I suggest you go find one of the many excellent videos showing multiple angles of what actually happened.Or 70 young Amish men mocking an Indian guy on the Washington Mall. I doubt that would ever happen, but if it did, I bet it would go viral. Can't prove it, this is obviously speculation.
It certainly is, and you seem to have no qualms about participating in it. There really isn’t a lot left up to debate about what happened, yet a lot of people remain committed to the narrative that 15 year old boys must have been evil because they had MAGA hats on.Social media is cruel. It likes sensationalism. It doesn't mind victims. It takes advantage of the fault lines in American society.
In a similar vein, some people continue to insist that the incident with Smollets actually can teach us something about how evil people who wear MAGA hats or say the MAGA slogan are, despite the entire thing being a rather elaborate hoax.