How the Covington Catholic firestorm reinforced America's divisions [View all]
When liberals looked at the videos shot near the Lincoln Memorial last Friday, they saw a smirking, entitled son of likely Donald Trump voters. Here was a Catholic school boy who seemed to enjoy a silent but disrespectful faceoff with an older Native American man and his drum, while the boy’s white classmates tomahawk chopped and jeered.
When conservatives looked at the same videos they saw a collection of kids waiting for a bus near the memorial after participating in the March for Life. The boys faced verbal goading by Black Israelites and were confronted by an unusual Native American man with a drum but stayed positive by doing spirit cheers. The Covington Catholic High School kids were the lambs, and the others were wolves circling them.
In the week since, it’s become clear that at least some of each of those perspectives is true, but virtually no one’s mind has been changed about what actually happened and what all of it means.
“It seems everyone wants a simple story,” said Matt Motyl, a political psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Motyl, who is also a research fellow at New York University, studies why people have a hard time talking about hot-button issues without conflict or are reticent to engage with those who contradict the views they already hold.
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I think we all have done stupid shit as teenagers. It would be easy to forgive those kids if there was some remorse shown.
Several thoughts here mostly where were their chaperones? Speaking as one who was raised Catholic there's no way we would have gotten away with that kind of shit.
Instead I'm seeing entitled rich kids whose folks will bail them out whenever they screw up.
Just what this country needs a few more Donald Trump/ Brett Kavanaugh types.
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