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Delingpole: Left-Wing (and the Right) Attack Kids to Demonstrate Virtue | Breitbart

posted onJanuary 21, 2019
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Article snippet: Even the foul-mouthed, drug-taking author of Trainspotting just couldn’t resist taking the moral high ground: But the story just isn’t true. It’s a leftist media fabrication which already has had terrible repercussions for the boys involved — who are now being threatened with expulsion by their school. 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. Activists such as Shaun King leapt on the story as further evidence of the evils of white privilege: This BBC Radio DJ eagerly joined in the witch hunt mob pursuit of the high school kids: Here is Twitter blue-check celebrity Reza Aslan inciting violence against an innocent boy for the terrible crime of smiling sweetly while in possession of a MAGA hat. Here is Kathy Griffin trying to dox the poor kid: And quickly — far, far too quickly — the boys’ Catholic school and diocese took the side of the boys’ persecutors: Oh and here, just in case you haven’t had enough stupid yet, is Alyssa Milano’s contribution to the debate: You might hope that conservative commentators, at least, might show more of a sense of perspective. But here is the hot take of conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt, whose line appears to be that even though the kids have since been shown to be innocent, they should get a lecture from a member... Link to the full article to read more

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