Only a matter of time before the social media mob comes for youThe Hill, Jan 21, 2019, Buck Sexton
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But that’s not what really happened. You can watch the full video of the incident here. The truth is that these high school students were harassed, mocked, and threatened leading up to the confrontation with Philips, who chose to get in their faces and pound his drum.
Present before and after the entire exchange was a radical activist group called the “Black Israelites,†who yelled the following at the Covington students: “White people go back to Europe, this is not your land, “the biggest terrorist on the face of this earth is the pale faced man, woman and child,†“come closer and you gonna catch it,†“I hope you crackers are ready,†“you have a school shooter haircut.â€
Once again, the media has disgraced itself with its coverage of this incident. They could not resist the opportunity to slam a group of young men who fit preconceived notions of “white privilege.†Their clear support for Trump, of course, made them de facto guilty in many journalists’ eyes before anything was said or done. That these young men were defamed, with their lives possibly forever damaged, for the transient self-satisfaction of reckless journalists is appalling. There is much soul searching that needs to be done in newsrooms across the country.
There is also a bigger lesson to be drawn from this. Social media mobs are a cancer on this country, and those in the news business have an obligation not to carelessly magnify malignant efforts at personal destruction. This affects all of us. It does not matter who you are, whether you are active online, care about politics, or keep to yourself. The social justice mob may come for you, your spouse or your child, and engage in a ritualistic destruction of their online reputation. Even a trip to the Lincoln Memorial for high school kids can be turned into something catastrophic.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/426288-only-a-matter-of-time-before-the-social-media-mob-comes-for-you
