According to the version of events widely circulated in the leftist media, a Native American elder was variously “taunted,” “mocked,” and “harassed” by a “mob” of “non-Native teen boys” in MAGA hats. Supposedly, they surrounded him and blocked his passage.
This whole story exposes the left as lying, cry-bullying, vindictive, shrill, ugly hate machine it is. While we knew they were all of these things, what becomes more clear is how willing society was to sign on to their lying; everyone from the Catholic Church to the school that the kids attend wasted no time in piling on. That the version of events in the media did not happen had/has little to do with the virtue signalling idiots.
What is clear from the unedited footage of the event is that the boys did little wrong. Far from surrounding this supposedly innocent “Native American elder veteran,” as he has been sanctimoniously billed by the left, it was he who approached them and began drumming right in their faces.
The “elder” is Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam vet with a long history of political activism, hardly someone who didn’t know exactly what he was doing; nor someone who was likely to be intimidated by a group of high school kids.
All the high school kids did in response was to smile, stand their ground, and sing along with the drumming. This is hardly an aggressive or unreasonable response, especially when they were being provoked not just by the “Native American elder,” but also by a group of left-wing black activists nearby.