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[Irreligious Atheist]

What personal attacks? Children were assaulted on camera, and Tomato is asking what they did to deserve it, without any reason to believe they did anything at all based on the information we have. How is that any different from blaming a woman for her own rape?

For one thing, we know women get raped with zero provocation on their part all the fucking time.

However, something like white kids being attacked by black kids out of the blue and just being forced to swear allegiance to BLM is a strange event that demands more context. Especially when given sources like the Washington Examiner (a right-wing rag) and Andy Ngo (a less than credible journalist,) things start to get suspicious. This isn't helped by the fact that many of us have seen implausible stories of black-on-white crime (or cases of white people being persecuted for something that seems benign that actually isn't) that seem specifically designed to either radicalise people Dylann Roof-style or to pander to the prejudices of the already radicalised.

Most mainstream media is not going to report on the story, either because it's a local story and most local stories don't get national coverage, or because it doesn't fit the narrative. You think I like the Washington Examiner? Hell no. You think I like the New York Post? Not even close. But we get what we get in those regards. Of course we should be suspicious of these news sites, but after examining what we know, what happened is pretty clear in this particular case. The simplest explanation is usually true. Did a bunch of kids and witnesses right after the fact conspire to make up some story about being made to kneel for BLM, after they were dragged and assaulted. Or was it the parents? A father saw his son, and asked him who else got beat up, and then he called that other father and they decided together to make up a hoax about the BLM kneeling story, and then they told their children to enact this story, and the witnesses as well. Extremely unlikely. And then they got the principal and even police department to go along with their hoax? Even more unlikely still. This is beyond silly.

Does the Washington Examiner or the New York Post have alternative motives for sharing this story, like making so called CRT in schools look bad (for the record I don't call it CRT and I'm against any type of banning of anything in schools and I'm entirely against Ron Desantis' authoritarian Floridian laws), or maybe the Washington Examiner and NYP even want to sew seeds of distrust with images of black violence against white children, to the point where people will get radicalized and start thinking blacks are inherently violent. For sure those could be alternative motives, and of course we need to be constantly suspicious of these news sites. No disagreement there. There are thousands of news sites doing this, and it sucks. But Helios will see that the NYP is trying to radicalize people into anti-blackness, and from that, he will take away the position that anyone who shares any negative news story about a black person ever is literally the reincarnation of Hitler. He has a one track, all or nothing way of thinking and judging people.

I was not making any point about black children being violent, because I made sure to point out that this was very rare, but Helios just can't help himself. I started a fight and beat someone up on the playground as a kid to impress my older brother and his friends, and later felt bad about it. We all do dumb things as kids. That was never the point of me sharing the news story.

If you get a chance to check out the Destiny video I posted a page or two back of him reading a black professors comments about how bad and insufferable many students are nowadays, I'd like to hear your opinion on that if you get the chance sometime. I hope that video will better explain to you the problematic behaviour of the youth I was talking about before, as I think I was misunderstood. I don't want kids to be raised as child soldiers with no emotion. I don't want boys not to talk about their depression. But what the black professor talks about is bonkers.

And as far as what Tomato said in particular, he came down pretty hard on the white students, who are the only victims we know of, calling them white supremacists out of nowhere (I'm going to need a source for that, please, Tomato, or does refusing to kneel for BLM on the playground automatically equate to white supremacy to you, Tomato?), and Tomato also insinuated that they likely earned retaliation by saying he'd bet the victims might have been the real bullies. If anyone said that about a female victim of you know what, it'd be an automatic ban, but since it's me, IA, people automatically defend Tomato blaming the child victims while they call for my banishment (not saying you are. Respect for that.)