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Thread: To the privileged white boy who mocked a Native American elder and Vietnam vet today: you likely won’t ever read this, but I'll write it anyway. Congratulations on making yourself internet famous today. Your parents must be proud... /1
Though you and your friends in the video probably feel that what you did today, standing in the face of Nathan Phillips with your smug smirk, was an act of bravery, what you have actually done is take coward’s path. To hate and mock is the easy choice. 2/
To understand and have compassion for the plight of another is hard, especially when you disagree with their values. Today, you chose hate, the coward’s path, the path of one who is deeply afraid. It’s not likely your first time, nor will it likely be your last. /3
I’m sure you got a rush of adrenaline from your moment in the news. I hope it was worth it, because this day will haunt you for the rest of your life. In the years ahead of you, as you mature and gain the capacity for self reflection, you’ll look back on this moment.. /4
...and realize what you did, and you’ll wish you could take it back. Maybe this won’t happen for you until you’re Nathan’s age, well into the twilight of your life, but it will eventually happen. You’ll then feel a level of remorse you never thought imaginable. /5
You’ll want to travel back in time to today and undo what you did, but you won’t be able to. And what did you accomplish today? You and your friends wore what will come to be seen as the equivalent of of the Nazi swastika and the KKK white robes and hood. /6
Your MAGA hats are symbols of racism and will be seen as such once your cult leader of hate, the president, is removed. And today, standing in Nathan’s face while he sang and drummed, you succeeding in taking a public shit on a race of people that are different from you. /6
You and your friends blindly chanted to “build that wall”, perhaps not seeing the irony that YOU are the immigrants. Nathan and his ancestors are the first people in this land. It was theirs long before our ancestors came from Europe to steal it from them. /7
You used your white privilege to travel from an boys Catholic school and did something antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. You chose the path of a weak, fearful child to show a race of people how much you can hate, and you did so in the face of a truly brave man,... /8
a Vietnam veteran who served our country in war, and who stood peacefully protesting today while surrounded by a group of cowardly, fake Christian white children pretending to be brave men. /9
Nathan is the true hero. One day you'll see that. You likely think that you made a big statement today, showing the world how supreme, and how much better you and your white male friends are than everyone else. And you probably feel like a hero to your friends. /10
But in the end, all you have done is shown the world that you are a stupid coward incapable of creating something positive in this world. All you could think to do was to shit on someone in public in an attempt to belittle him and his people. /11
You’re the bully in the playground who stomps on all the other kid’s sand castles because you aren’t capable of creating your own. You seek to destroy because you can’t create, and destroying something is much, much easier than creating something of value. /12
Perhaps you think you owned us libs today, that you’ve shown us snowflakes on the Left that there’s a new sheriff in town. I’m sorry to say that you've done nothing but confirm for us that the brand of uneducated, soul-deadening, privileged hate you displayed today is what... /13
we are fighting against. In the end, you will have accomplished nothing but shaming yourself, showing the world your stupidity in a grand fashion, and hardening our resolve to work hard to rid our corner of the world of the kind of racist hate you displayed... /14
by taking a shit on Nathan, Native Americans, and anyone with skin color different than yours. You must be in a lot of pain to have made the decision to do what you did today. Enough pain to make it seem like doing that was a great idea and that it would help you in some way. /15
I’m sorry for your pain, and I’m sorry that you will experience a pain 10 times worse when you realize, in some number of years, that you deeply regret what you did today, because that pain will not disappear. /16
Enjoy your day in the media spotlight, but know that you will quickly be forgotten, and that you have accomplished nothing but hardening our resolve, thus making us stronger than the hate you gave today. /end
p.s. To anyone reading this, I hope you feel moved to retweet this thread. I have a small audience on twitter and could use some help getting this out there. Who knows, maybe this kid will eventually read this thread.
