Message from @Braydon
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Every fucking thread is full of people blaming only the kids
*sigh*
I haven't been paying attention. What is it precisely that this kid is accused of doing?
harassing a Native American war veteran
Open carry of an Assault smile
Harassing how?
also shouting homophobic slurs
well, not him specifically, but the people with him (for the slurs)
harassing by standing there smirking
By standing his ground with a smile when the man with the drum invaded his personal space.
Weren't those the people they were arguing with before the old guy came along @yearspastmatter
A smile becomes a smirk or a jeer when it's convenient for those who report it.
The black hebrew guys
Yes
They weren't even related to the kids wtf
Why is it that whenever something that's promoted as "progressive" fails, leftists automatically blame Trump and right wingers?
Because media reaction
The news media, reddit, etc. are basing their views on a clip that's 2:20 long, and even with that, I don't know how they're getting their stance
full video is about 9:30 in length
and clearly shows the narrative is not only 100% wrong, but that the reverse is true
Because they believe they are morally right, therefore they cannot be the reason for their failure.
No one will print " Leslie Jones doesn't like Ghostbusters 3"
Everybody prints "Leslie Jones compares Ghostbusters 3 to Trump"
It comes down to keywords and search engine optimization. the former article will get a quarter of a quarter of the views the latter article will get
So if you compare something to drumpf or MAGA or whatever, more people will propogate it because it's profitable
And *of course* when something "progressive" fails and another part of that franchise services the fans like it should've done, leftists blame toxic fandom.
I think I should write an article about why I think "Go Woke, Get Broke" is wrong
Because it misses what actually is happening. None or very few people in an industry care about politics or the culture war or diversity and all that
They care about selling stuff, and to sell the product you need advertisements, positive ones
Now, say you know the product is bad, and you cannot promote it by it's objective merits
So you promote it in the name of diversity and progressive politics (Battlefield 5, ghostbusters)
That makes fans angry, and what makes fans angry is picked up by mainstream outlets like polygon
so the game gets famous and people buy a lot
However, the audience soon finds that the product itself is just terrible
and boom, sales drop
This is why comics like Border Town and Iceman have great sales on issue 1, and then completely fail
Maybe someone commenting recently on the topic in here can drop some knowledge and confirm this for me...it seems that, in summary, this incident with the group of high schoolers is a case where intentional misrepresentations are being made to construct a narrative favorable to one party, and even though video and disccussions from some the folks present can be found contending otherwise, partisan ranker against the youngsters is leading to more false representations?
Wow. Of all people to make a video supporting reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvpVRJ-NH4
@caykoh Think of it this way.
There was a snippet of a video which could be used to make an otherwise peace full right wing rally into a controversial event. Leftist media used it to the best of their ability.
Gullible right wingers and other compassionate people fell for the narrative and did their best to make themselves look good.
This all happened because on twitter, no one cares about looking for context or have the attention span to look through a 2 hour video.
None of this would have happened if the Baby Hitler smear against Ben Shapiro had worked succesfully