Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Legbiter]

Looks like the Twitter account that popularized this video was likely "bad actor" trying to sow discord.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/21/tech/twitter-suspends-account-native-american-maga-teens/index.html

Molly McKew, an information warfare researcher who saw the tweet and shared it herself on Saturday, said she later realized that a network of anonymous accounts were working to amplify the video.

This moron is a self-styled 'information warfare expert' according to her twatter bio. 

[Razgovory]

A grown man walking up and beating a drum inches away from some 16/17 year old's face, then lying multiple times to try to make it sound like the kids were harassing him?

Yeah, I think an apology would be appropriate.

Finally, Derspeiss take a stand against ethno-nationalism.

[derspiess]

Does derspiess support the wall? 

We ought to do a Languish poll to find out

[Habbaku]

We only need one vote in that poll for a conclusion, though. 

[derspiess]

Not really. Languish usually tells my *real* positions are. And whether I'm really joking when I make jokes.

[Habbaku]

You poor martyr, you.

[Admiral Yi]

Your smugness in this case looks a lot like tribalism.

You say outrage at people's reactions who happen to be on your side is unacceptable.  But I haven't seen you apply the same principle to outrage over reactions by people who are on the other side.

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Are we still talking about the douche teenagers with the native drum guy? Tempest in a teapot. The kids acted like assholes and will probably grow up to be useless, otoh native drum guy inserted himself into a situation with a bunch of bored teenagers. Don't go looking for it dude.

Why the hell is this news?
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You left out that the Black Israelite dude started it by calling them children of incest, but otherwise I generally agree.

My criticism is about your selectivity in what people can be outraged about.  Here's a case where your guys were in the wrong and plenty of lefties piled on the outrage about the MAGA punks. Their outrage doesn't draw any comment from you, yet when Speesh is quote unquote outraged by their outrage the problem lies in the arrangement of his underwear.

Outrage is pretty much the only output of the political comedy shows, but I've never seen you criticizing them.  Outrage is the whole point of the excercise for the campus PC crowd.  No comment from you.

So bottom line: you only object to outrage when it's directed at your guys.

[Zoupa]

You need to differentiate outrage from real issues. Political comedy shows like Colbert or John Oliver? Colbert is a late night comedy show. What exactly should I criticize? It's comedy. It's not pretending to be news.

John Oliver talks about a bunch of different subjects. You can tell he's anti-GOP/Trump but which sane person isn't these days?

I'm not sure what your point is. Of course I'm biased. I don't think I'm some kind of sjw or something. I'm an old-school socialist.

[Admiral Yi]

You need to differentiate outrage from real issues. Political comedy shows like Colbert or John Oliver? Colbert is a late night comedy show. What exactly should I criticize? It's comedy. It's not pretending to be news.

John Oliver talks about a bunch of different subjects. You can tell he's anti-GOP/Trump but which sane person isn't these days?

I'm not sure what your point is. Of course I'm biased. I don't think I'm some kind of sjw or something. I'm an old-school socialist.

My point is that in differentiating outrage from real issues, you're biased.

[Zoupa]

That's not much of a point dude. Everybody is.

[Admiral Yi]

That's not much of a point dude. Everybody is.

If you concede that, where does that leave you in terms of telling Speesh what he can't be outraged about?

[Zoupa]

I ain't saying he can't be outraged. I find it funny that he needs a safe space from the mean 80 year old native drummer.

[Admiral Yi]

I ain't saying he can't be outraged. I find it funny that he needs a safe space from the mean 80 year old native drummer.

You're playing semantics.  Finding it funny, mocking, saying he can't, there's really no difference.

[derspiess]

64-year old, not 80.  And apparently he wasn't in Nam FWIW.

[Zoupa]

You're over analyzing. Of course he can do/feel whatever he wants. What am I, the arbiter of good taste? I'm just busting his balls because he usually goes on and on about the pc culture.