What really sucks is the term "racist" or "racism" has been used so freely in bullshit political banter that it has lost it's meaning. It holds the same value as "you're mean" today. We all know whoever brings it up first is a virtue signalling weirdo.
Move over everyone, heavy hitter coming through. Anyone wondered why it was OK for some March Leaders to openly support anti-Semites and say hateful things against Jews?
Racism today is defined as
uni-directional and only possible from white to minorities (namely ONLY blacks, latinos, "browns") , ie, blacks could never be racist to whites
by their definition. Quite convenient isn't it?
This, of course, is utter bullshit. The racism rule must be the same for everyone for the word to actually carry weight again. This is a case of "trojan horse words", activists took words that had one meaning and twisted them to fit their own narratives. Many more of these trojan horse words exist today, for example, inclusion, equity, etc.
Now back to the incident itself:
1. Phillips was a marine, his record was less than stellar, but he did serve for 4 years nonetheless.
2. There has been no discernible audio implicating the kids chanting build the/that wall, weeks after the incident took place. I think we can lay this accusation to rest, if one wishes to prove it actually happened, let them present the evidence, and not just the chant was "Not implausible given their politics, but the videos don't ... rule it out."
3. MAGA hats is a symbol of hate to
some people. This I fully understand, but do not project your own feelings to how everyone thinks. As an individual, I will accept the hat to be a symbol of hate
if and when their supporters carried out their version of "final solution" and murdered millions of minorities for no reason other than their race and gender and sexual orientation.
4. Some kids looked like were doing chops with their hands, I don't support that.
5. The man that shouted for whites to go back to Europe, I will do you one better: EVERYONE GO BACK TO AFRICA WHERE WE ALL CAME FROM.
6. Walking up to someone and beating a drum in their face is not ok. That's textbook behavior of being confrontational and looking for trouble.
7. Sandman did not make way for Phillips. Why should he? He knew nothing about the man that approached him, why did he need to move and make way for this person?
8. The lawsuits (so i have been told) are coming, that ought to be quite entertaining.