"Victims" Who Bully

If you watch this it looks more like wincing than smirking.

Some poor kid, as yet unidentified, (but don't worry the left will take care of that oversight soon), is in deep trouble. This unfortunate Catholic schoolboy went to a pro-life rally and stood in place while a "native American" approached from a nearby pro-left rally banged a drum in his face for two or three minutes and now he faces possible suspension, national shaming and who knows what other "punishments". He kept his hands behind him the entire time as the native American elder fronted they young man. The boy did not speak. He didn't behave aggressively. He simply refused to retreat as the "native American elder" swung a mallet and banged a drum just inches from his face. 

His biggest crime?  He wore a "Make America Great Again" hat while doing it. His second "crime" was he didn't frown, didn't back away and wore (gasp) a smirky teenaged kid smile. Better yet, Nathan Phillips, the Native America Vietnam Veteran and former director of the Native Youth Alliance who banged the drum in the Catholic schoolboy's face gave a nice interview in which he lamented the idea of a border wall; said that Native Americans had never needed a wall and shed one of those single tears like that fake Indian in the anti-littering TV commercial back in the 60s.

The poor boy was the perfect target. The only thing the gang of thugs who backed up Mr. Phillips were there to do was to egg things on. The fact that you can hear on the tape several of the boys saying, "I don't understand what's going on."  Obviously the kids didn't realize that they were being set up for a video taped incident.

As someone who worked for years with boys, I probably view this video from a rather different perspective from that of communist, lesbian, feminist, Democrat, journalist, social justice warriors. As such, I will likely draw some ire from that class of folk. Also, I have probably have ruined any chance I might have to serve on the Supreme court simply by writing this weblog.

The most troubling thing about things like this is the inexorable slide the culture is taking toward a kind of mob rule/tribalism it represents. Such a culture, such a government tends to use bullying, lies, intimidation, shaming and punishment to enforce it's collective will on anyone who is not a member of the perceived majority. It is antithetical to the American way of life as it has been preserved for more than a quarter of a millennium. The US Constitution was brilliantly designed to push us to be better than we were then and in the future to be better than we are now.  It forced an end to slavery, the emancipation of women and acceptance of the minority populations who came to join us and the embracing of our differences.

We are going backwards. Political correctness, media control, public shaming and the slide toward collectivism takes us back to a medieval feudal style culture with an elite ruling class and a homogeneous proletariat who all think alike, act the same way and dare not believe differently from the herd.

Almost time to go home.

© 2019 by Tom King