Yeah, we seem to have a lot

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 06:56:29 +0000

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Yeah, we seem to have a lot of time on our hands as a country/world.

Twitter suspends account that

artappraiser — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:14:31 +0000

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Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter @CNN https://t.co/Gb8VQRDBzm
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 22, 2019

New York Times published a

artappraiser — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:41:54 +0000

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New York Times published a similar piece yesterday here

Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students

By Sarah Mervoish & Emily S. Rueb Jan. 20

A fuller and more complicated picture emerged on Sunday of the videotaped encounter between a Native American man and a throng of high school boys wearing “Make America Great Again” gear outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Interviews and additional video footage suggest that an explosive convergence of race, religion and ideological beliefs — against a national backdrop of political tension — set the stage for the viral moment. Early video excerpts from the encounter obscured the larger context, inflaming outrage [....]

And I note from doing a search for that on the Times' site that AP. and Reuters have also published "it's complicated" pieces, which I haven't bothered to read, because 2 are enough for me on this damn story:

3 Groups; Many Videos; Many Interpretations of DC Encounter

By The Associated Press, Jan. 21, 2019

Student in Trump Hat Denies Mocking Native American Activist in Videotaped Encounter

By Reuters, Jan. 21, 2019

More and more, we are prone to see what we want to believe and the ability to edit video and spin it helps that along....

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Yeah, we seem to have a lot

Twitter suspends account that

New York Times published a