Quote (Goomshill @ Jan 23 2019 09:56am)
its disturbing how when the deranged narrative fell apart, some activists somewhere turned a professional campaign-grade muckraking microscope into the history of covington in hopes of finding any pictures, video, news clips, etc that could impugn a group of children. There were actually people digging through years of school history to find anything at all so they could justify attacking children. I mean, I can understand when that kind of effort goes into dirty partisan politics. That's the lamentable status quo of our end-game two party system, we saw it cranked up to unprecedented levels with Hillary's 70%+ negative campaign vs Trump and digging up the pussytape and bimbo eruption. But now those same methods are being used on literal innocent children. Suddenly we're looking at clips of Covington Catholic's basketball team from a decade ago, or every meme uttered by a 12 year old on camera. There are still news articles being published this hour that are finding new excuses to attack the children instead of issuing a mea culpa
we're at peak ends justify the means culture.
there's a concerning trend in which people view these type of situations as entertaining events. Driven by comment sections, live tweet threads, etc. People are getting enjoyment out of "being in on it", and when it gets debunked they feel their time was wasted and act childishly. I mean imagine talking shit about a kid's face for 4 hours in a tweet chain, spending 2 hours making memes, etc and then the next day you find out you're the villain all along. it takes a good person in that moment to take a step back and almost no one is that good.