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Journalist loses job for tweets wishing Covington students would 'f-ing die'

A Los Angeles production studio manager and journalist is out of a job over a pair of tweets that wished death on the Covington Catholic High School students who were involved in a media firestorm over the weekend.

Erik Abriss, a post-production supervisor at INE Entertainment and a pop culture contributing writer at Vulture magazine, wrote Saturday, “I don’t know what it says about me but I’ve truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage, nausea, and heartache this makes me feel. I just want these people to die. Simple as that. Every single one of them. And their parents,” according to The Wrap.

Mr. Abriss was reacting to a viral edited video that showed several students from the Covington school in Kentucky, many of whom were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, during an encounter with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The video created the media narrative that the students were taunting the man, but hours of footage that later surfaced showed the contrary, leading to dozens of retractions and apologies by media members and celebrities.

In another tweet reacting to the initial video, Mr. Abriss wrote, “Racism is in its Boomer death throes. It will die out with this younger generation!’ Look at the shit-eating grins on all those young white slugs’ faces. Just perverse pleasure at wielding a false dominion they’ve been taught their whole life was their divine right. F–ing die,” The Wrap reported.

INE Entertainment called Mr. Abriss‘ comments “offensive” in a statement announcing his firing Monday.

“We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used on Erik Abriss‘ Twitter account this weekend. He worked with the company in our post-production department and never as a writer,” the company said.

“While we appreciated his work, it is clear that he is no longer aligned with our company’s core values of respect and tolerance. Therefore, as of January 21, 2019, we have severed ties with Abriss,” the company said.

Vulture declined to comment to The Wrap.



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The "Wonders of Social Media"! This brings back the great memories of how well the "Arab Spring" changed the Middle East and brought peace to the region. Nice to see that instant messaging can bring about the same "Hope and Change" here! Roll Eyes


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Journalist loses job for tweets wishing Covington students would 'f-ing die'






Maybe that will teach some of these shitheads on Twitter that this READY-FIRE-AIM mode of responding in social media before you have the whole story is a terrible idea!


 
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RACIST BLACK NATIONALISM AND THE COVINGTON CONTROVERSY

At NRO, Molly Powell calls attention to a largely overlooked aspect of the Covington confrontation — the outright racism, homophobia, and religious bigotry of the black nationalist group that confronted the Covington teenagers. She writes:

If you watch the nearly two-hour YouTube video, filmed by a man who seems to be a member of the Black Israelites, you will see the black men, all adult, hurling insult after insult at the students, for well over an hour . It seems accidental that the students and the black nationalists are at the same spot on the mall — the former waiting for their buses back to Kentucky and the latter staging a small demonstration.

The students are called “hyenas,” “dogs,” “white crackers,” and “faggot.” They are ridiculed for being lice-ridden and told to “go back to Europe where you come from.”

One man says he can tell by looking in the students’ eyes that they will be “school shooters.” They are the “product of sodomy.” We hear that black Jesus is coming back to kick the “white crackers’ ass.” This black Christ is not like the image of Jesus the boys supposedly hold — that Jesus is a “faggot child molester.” “Your president is a homosexual!” one man yells.

Why has the conduct of the black nationalists escaped notice while that of the Covington students has been unfairly denounced?
 
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Why has the conduct of the black nationalists escaped notice while that of the Covington students has been unfairly denounced?


No clue, I've been racking my brain over, and over about this, and the answer just escapes me. You think that the threats, racist remarks, and rudness would be condemned by all.

Let me know if you guys are able to figure out this dichotomy.



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Why has the conduct of the black nationalists escaped notice while that of the Covington students has been unfairly denounced?

You know the answer... it hasn't "escaped notice". But it would be like saying the emperor has no clothes. Or there's an elephant in the room. Everyone pretends not to notice.

No one on the left (and very few on the right) want to acknowledge that black on white racism exists.
In fact, in my observation, black on white racism not only exists... but it is more vocal, more violent, and more prevalent than white on black racism.



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I'm over it. No more turn the other cheek BS. Its time for the Covington kids and their parents to lawyer up and start the lawsuits. These kids were slandered big time, and somebody (or multiple somebodies) need to pay and pay big. Quite frankly, given their behavior thus far, I'd like to see a lawsuit filed against the Covington diocese as well.

A whole lotta people need to pay a big price if this crap is ever going to stop. Mad


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I'm thinking that the "protesters" got off really lucky. The crowd I ran with in high school had a tendency to kick ass and take names. We were a bit reactive. Idaho rednecks. Oh, fuck their school for siding with the "Vietnam Vet". Good on these kids, and they are kids, smart kids. They're much smarter than I was at that age.
 
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/...gton-controversy.php

RACIST BLACK NATIONALISM AND THE COVINGTON CONTROVERSY

At NRO, Molly Powell calls attention to a largely overlooked aspect of the Covington confrontation — the outright racism, homophobia, and religious bigotry of the black nationalist group that confronted the Covington teenagers. She writes:

If you watch the nearly two-hour YouTube video, filmed by a man who seems to be a member of the Black Israelites, you will see the black men, all adult, hurling insult after insult at the students, for well over an hour . It seems accidental that the students and the black nationalists are at the same spot on the mall — the former waiting for their buses back to Kentucky and the latter staging a small demonstration.

The students are called “hyenas,” “dogs,” “white crackers,” and “faggot.” They are ridiculed for being lice-ridden and told to “go back to Europe where you come from.”

One man says he can tell by looking in the students’ eyes that they will be “school shooters.” They are the “product of sodomy.” We hear that black Jesus is coming back to kick the “white crackers’ ass.” This black Christ is not like the image of Jesus the boys supposedly hold — that Jesus is a “faggot child molester.” “Your president is a homosexual!” one man yells.

Why has the conduct of the black nationalists escaped notice while that of the Covington students has been unfairly denounced?


Is there a reason Law Enforcement did not get involved. These were minors being intimidated and verbally threatened by adults. Is the video evidence enough for the parents to go after the Black Israelites?


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About Chief Shitting Bull going around telling everyone he’s a USMC Vietnam Vet:

There are some Internet sleuths doing some fact checking as we speak and the numbers don’t add up to be frank. Based on his age, he would have served in the Marines in the mid-1970s, he claims to be a Vietnam combat vet from Vietnam, but the last USMC units pulled out of VN in 1971.

He’s also alluded to being a “Recon Ranger” in the Marines which doesn’t add up either; Marines have Force Recon and the Army has Rangers. We may be looking at embellishment or outright a Stolen Valor type situation with this guy.


Now the WaPo is even 'clarifying' that he's not actually a Vietnam vet. He served, but never deployed.



The Washington Post, one of the first mainstream news publications to seize on the narrative of racist teenagers harassing an elderly veteran, published a correction to its story today, noting that Phillips is not a Vietnam veteran.

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Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam.


This follows the usual pattern. They run out the narrative they want the public to remember and then later, when the vast majority have quit paying attention, they quietly 'make a correction', which most will not see. This event will be memorialized as 'Racist teenagers attacked an innocent Native American veteran'.



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^^^ Yeah... and they didn't correct the 'Racist teenagers attacked' part which is far more important than his embellishment of his military service.



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Nathan Phillips was the instigator. There are reports he is fund raising heavily off this fabricated incident.

Wash Post does its' normal total distortion

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.ddb5fc6e4265

Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.

BS. Phillips walked right into the group of teenagers

Phillips, who was singing the American Indian Movement song that serves as a ceremony to send the spirits home, said he noticed tensions beginning to escalate when the teens and other apparent participants from the nearby March for Life rally began taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd.

video shows the group of black activists verbally attacking members of the Indian group

Phillips said a few people in the March for Life crowd began to chant, “Build that wall, build that wall,” though such chants are not audible on video.

and so what if they did chant "Build that wall" ??

“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’ ” Phillips recalled. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way, and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.”

watch the video

Phillips kept drumming and singing, thinking about his wife, Shoshana, who died of bone marrow cancer nearly four years ago, and the various threats that face indigenous communities around the world, he said.

“I felt like the spirit was talking through me,” Phillips said.

someone should explain that beating a drum in their faces and chanting some incoherent sounds might not be the best way to communicate w teenage boys. Or most any other people
 
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NPR and Fox News' Mara Liasson made a great comment Sunday: "Get the facts before forming an opinion. Don't form an opinion and go then go fact shopping to support it" IIRC.
 
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Nick Sandmann is the Covington High School student who stood face to face with Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday.

NBC’s Savannah Guthrie announced that Sandmann was being interviewed and his story would be broadcast on the Today Show Wednesday morning.


Nathan Phillips:

“It looked like these young men were going to attack these guys. They were going to hurt them. They were going to hurt them because they didn’t like the color of their skin.”

“…here are American youth who are ready to, look like, lynch these guys. To be honest, they looked like they were going to lynch them.”

“I felt like I denied them their prey. I felt like I denied them their prey and so they were going to take it out on me.”

“I’m the one whose all that anger and all that wanting to have the freedom to just rip me apart, that was scary.”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21...interview/index.html

Phillips:

Here's a group of people who were angry at somebody else and I put myself in front of that, and all of a sudden, I'm the one whose all that anger and all that wanting to have the freedom to just rip me apart, that was scary. And I'm a Vietnam veteran and I know that mentality of "There's enough of us. We can do this."

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Can this get any more bizarre ?

Phillips is a nut case.
 
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I'm over it. No more turn the other cheek BS. Its time for the Covington kids and their parents to lawyer up and start the lawsuits. These kids were slandered big time, and somebody (or multiple somebodies) need to pay and pay big. Quite frankly, given their behavior thus far, I'd like to see a lawsuit filed against the Covington diocese as well.

A whole lotta people need to pay a big price if this crap is ever going to stop. Mad


I agree hit them hard where it hurts pull money out of their pockets for slandering them. Then tell the Bishop to go fuck himself and worry about his child abusing priests.


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Here's a group of people who were angry at somebody else and I put myself in front of that, and all of a sudden, I'm the one whose all that anger and all that wanting to have the freedom to just rip me apart, that was scary. And I'm a Vietnam veteran and I know that mentality of "There's enough of us. We can do this."




Sounds like he's channeling Hillary!
 
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And again, there is more to the story. Evidently the black Israelites were taunting the Native American creep before the kids were ever involved. Clearly the so called religious folk weren’t just calling the white people “crackers” and “incest babies”, they were calling the injun “gad”- a term to describe a false god.

But the only racists there were the white kids, right?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...shc&feature=youtu.be




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It's Don Shipley, bro... how ya doin'?

Nathaniel isn't a Vietnam vet:

 
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