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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 11:59:06 AM
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/black-students-taunted-slaves-michigan-school-surrounded-confederate-flags/

A Michigan woman says her grandson has endured racist bullying at a high school thats surrounded this week by pickup trucks waving Confederate flags.

The demonstration in Auburn, which is more than 95 percent white, began Tuesday with six trucks but swelled Wednesday to dozens of pickups bearing Confederate flags and Gadsden flags associated with the tea party movement, reported MLive.

A few counter-protesters showed up with rainbow flags as a show of support for LGBT rights, and Bay County sheriffs deputies stood by in case violence broke out.

That flag does not stand for the Confederacy, it stands for racism and those kids know that and the parents know that, said Lahoma Buckley, whose grandson is one of the schools only black students.

The teenage boy told relatives that classmates used the Confederate flag to taunt him at school, reported WNEM-TV.

He told me that this kid stuck the Confederate flag under (his) nose today and said, Someone gave me five bucks to show you this, and just before that another student says to him, Do slaves have feelings? And then uses his name, (that he) doesnt have feelings, Buckley said.

The boys football teammates have also taunted him with racial slurs, Buckley said.

They were calling him the N-word, Buckley said. Everyday he goes to school with his stomach in knots not knowing if hes going to be confronted with someone trying to push his buttons again today.

She said the teen loved his school despite the abuse and felt supported by teachers, but she asked other parents to consider what the Confederate flag symbolizes to her grandson.

If your child put a flag in his pocket, on his belt buckle, on his truck or whatever today, to show strength or force or whatever, you need to take another look at what youve allowed him to do or her because youve humiliated my grandson, Buckely said.

City and school officials say theyre monitoring the Confederate flag demonstration, but they say they cant do much about it.

Theyre doing their legal constitutional duty, said Mayor Lee Kilbourn.

Im not saying Im supporting it or for or against it, but people in this country have to start realizing we have to tolerate all peoples views, the mayor added. Thats preached a lot out of Washington and a lot of other places, but its not practiced. Democrats dont like Republicans views and Republicans dont like Democrats views. People have to grow up and need to respect other peoples views.

The mayor and school officials said they arent sure whether the flag demonstrations are racially motivated, but the schools few black students say they have proof.

If the motive was to intimidate, that was wrong, Kilbourn said. Trying to intimidate by race, color, creed, political belief, or religious belief is wrong. We have to respond to that in the right way so that the right message gets out.

Kendall Frost, a 17-year-old junior, showed MLive screen shots of social media taunts by white classmates who say she and other black students shouldnt go to Western because of our skin tone.

A Snapchat video taken by another student and shown to MLive shows at least students in a vehicle taking part in the flag demonstration swearing and using racial slurs.

We do believe in freedom of speech, said Frost, who said her car was blocked in by two trucks flying Confederate flags. If that is how you want to react and go with your life, thats on you, but there are racial comments coming with the flags being up. Theyre not putting them up because they believe in anything theyre putting them up because they know we dont want them


Heritage, not hate though, right?
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Paper_Okami
04/19/18 11:59:58 AM
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expel all the students who did this.
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Letron_James
04/19/18 12:01:58 PM
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Bucktooths gonna bucktooth
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MC_BatCommander
04/19/18 12:02:41 PM
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lmao

"we aren't racists, it's our heritage!"
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Hexenherz
04/19/18 12:05:09 PM
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it's really fun harassing people for no reason let's go harass people together this weekend anyone wanna join?
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:05:52 PM
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Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.
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Were_Wyrm
04/19/18 12:06:12 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
That flag does not stand for the Confederacy

TIL the confederate flag does not stand for the Confederacy.
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Dyinglegacy
04/19/18 12:06:38 PM
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Bullying sucks. I've been at the recieving and giving end of it. Dreading going to school because of fear of your peers is a terrible, helpless feeling.
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Letron_James
04/19/18 12:06:45 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


Yeah im sure the 95% white population felt so scared by the 5 black guys and 3 gay guys around the area.
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frozenshock
04/19/18 12:07:15 PM
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The confederate flag stands for open rebellion against the United States.
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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:08:35 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


>95 percent white town where even the mayor wont condone racist intimidation

"It was the SJWs fault"

Lmao
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Bishop9800
04/19/18 12:10:09 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


Then post it
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:11:07 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


>95 percent white town where even the mayor wont condone racist intimidation

"It was the SJWs fault"

Lmao


Yes it is. Im sorry you dont realize Rawstory is clickbait and are so easily duped by them. Read the MLive story in the link. The BLM counter-protesters showed up, called them racists, and tore a flag off one of the trucks. They were the antagonizers.

Im sorry if reality hurts your oppression narrative.
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:11:47 PM
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Bishop9800 posted...
The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


Then post it


Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.
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lilORANG
04/19/18 12:12:52 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
"we aren't racists, it's our heritage!"

in michigan

dweebs
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myzz7
04/19/18 12:14:03 PM
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lilORANG posted...
MC_BatCommander posted...
"we aren't racists, it's our heritage!"

in michigan

dweebs

yeah this. its fucking bizarre and kids just hijacking the conf flag for bs.
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_MorningStar
04/19/18 12:14:34 PM
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FrisbeeDude posted...
The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


>95 percent white town where even the mayor wont condone racist intimidation

"It was the SJWs fault"

Lmao

He said he didn't agree or disagree with it, just that it was there right to have the protest. Which it is.

Is it a bullshit Cause? Yes, that doesn't mean legally they can't do it. That's all he commented on.
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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:14:35 PM
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Addy thinks black students in an all white town being upset at people racially intimidating them is an "oppression narrative"

A "dismantle whiteness" sign at a PWI though? Textbook racism that needs to be snuffed out

Lmao
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Bishop9800
04/19/18 12:15:25 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.


So you can't, though so.
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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:15:31 PM
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_MorningStar posted...
FrisbeeDude posted...
The Admiral posted...
Rawstory clickbait.

The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


>95 percent white town where even the mayor wont condone racist intimidation

"It was the SJWs fault"

Lmao

He said he didn't agree or disagree with it, just that it was there right to have the protest. Which it is.

Is it a bullshit Cause? Yes, that doesn't mean legally they can't do it. That's all he commented on.


If your response to racists is "you gotta respect their views" then you're a POS
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:16:56 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Yes it is. Im sorry you dont realize Rawstory is clickbait and are so easily duped by them. Read the MLive story in the link. The BLM counter-protesters showed up, called them racists, and tore a flag off one of the trucks. They were the antagonizers.

Im sorry if reality hurts your oppression narrative.


1) The MLive story doesn't say a BLM counter-protester tore a flag off of one of the trucks. The person mentioning the flag being torn off said it happened in the week prior, not at the event itself.
- Myers also said a Confederate flag of his was torn from his vehicle on school property last week.
2) The MLive story and the RawStory article are talking about two different things.
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:18:21 PM
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Bishop9800 posted...
The Admiral posted...
Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.


So you can't, though so.


You're too lazy to click a link. Thought so.
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Bishop9800
04/19/18 12:18:51 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Bishop9800 posted...
The Admiral posted...
Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.


So you can't, though so.


You're too lazy to click a link. Thought so.

CableZL posted...
1) The MLive story doesn't say a BLM counter-protester tore a flag off of one of the trucks. The person mentioning the flag being torn off said it happened in the week prior, not at the event itself.
- Myers also said a Confederate flag of his was torn from his vehicle on school property last week.
2) The MLive story and the RawStory article are talking about two different things.

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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:19:10 PM
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CableZL posted...
The Admiral posted...
Yes it is. Im sorry you dont realize Rawstory is clickbait and are so easily duped by them. Read the MLive story in the link. The BLM counter-protesters showed up, called them racists, and tore a flag off one of the trucks. They were the antagonizers.

Im sorry if reality hurts your oppression narrative.


1) The MLive story doesn't say a BLM counter-protester tore a flag off of one of the trucks. The person mentioning the flag being torn off said it happened in the week prior, not at the event itself.
- Myers also said a Confederate flag of his was torn from his vehicle on school property last week.
2) The MLive story and the RawStory article are talking about two different things.


Addy has become the thing his used to complain about when he was a mod
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Letron_James
04/19/18 12:20:10 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Bishop9800 posted...
The Admiral posted...
Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.


So you can't, though so.


You're too lazy to click a link. Thought so.


And apparently you're too lazy to learn the difference between calender dates.
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:22:10 PM
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Letron_James posted...
The Admiral posted...
Bishop9800 posted...
The Admiral posted...
Read the article yourself, its in the TCs link.


So you can't, though so.


You're too lazy to click a link. Thought so.


And apparently you're too lazy to learn the difference between calender dates.


Doubling down on your laziness, I see.
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Antifar
04/19/18 12:22:38 PM
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The Admiral posted...
The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.

This is harassment?

What began with six trucks bearing the flags on Tuesday, April 17, parked along Bryant Boulevard, adjacent to the school at 500 W. Midland Road, has grown to feature dozens of vehicles parked in the same spot on Wednesday. A few counter-protesters displayed rainbow flags in support of LGBTQ rights and one sign that says "Hate Not Heritage," and another that says "Black Lives Matter."


Also from that story

Cameron Myers, a student waving the Confederate flag, said he's not motivated by racism.

"It's not about racism; it's a country boy thing," he said, adding he thinks the symbol has been present since the founding of the United States.


ah
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:23:08 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Doubling down on your laziness, I see.


It would really help your case if you would actually read articles you're talking about instead of making wildly inaccurate assumptions.
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:24:17 PM
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Antifar posted...
The Admiral posted...
The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.

This is harassment?

What began with six trucks bearing the flags on Tuesday, April 17, parked along Bryant Boulevard, adjacent to the school at 500 W. Midland Road, has grown to feature dozens of vehicles parked in the same spot on Wednesday. A few counter-protesters displayed rainbow flags in support of LGBTQ rights and one sign that says "Hate Not Heritage," and another that says "Black Lives Matter."


Also from that story

Cameron Myers, a student waving the Confederate flag, said he's not motivated by racism.

"It's not about racism; it's a country boy thing," he said, adding he thinks the symbol has been present since the founding of the United States.


ah


Didn't say they were being harassed, I said the counter-protesters were the antagonists and that the TC's clickbait article was bullshit. And it is.
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YourDrunkFather
04/19/18 12:24:25 PM
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Gotta love the crowd who routinely crys about Fox being used as a source treating Rawstory as if it's anything other than a garbage click bait site
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:25:05 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Didn't say they were being harassed, I said the counter-protesters were the antagonists and that the TC's clickbait article was bulls***. And it is.


You said a BLM counter-protester tore a flag off of a truck. That's not what the article said.
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Antifar
04/19/18 12:25:23 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Didn't say they were being harassed,

You know people can read your posts, right?

The Admiral posted...
The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.

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CableZL
04/19/18 12:25:43 PM
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Antifar posted...
The Admiral posted...
Didn't say they were being harassed,

You know people can read your posts, right?

The Admiral posted...
The actually non-bullshit source says the confederate flags carriers organized a protest and were the ones being harassed by BLM on the second day.


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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:25:46 PM
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CableZL posted...
The Admiral posted...
Doubling down on your laziness, I see.


It would really help your case if you would actually read articles you're talking about instead of making wildly inaccurate assumptions.


It would help if you were consistent with criticizing the TC for posting inaccurate clickbait like you would anyone on the right who did the same.

You'll harp on any detail you can when the post goes against your views but ignore wholesale exaggerations and misrepresentation in other cases when they align.
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:26:41 PM
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The Admiral posted...
It would help if you were consistent with criticizing the TC for posting inaccurate clickbait like you would anyone on the right who did the same.


You're claiming it's inaccurate based on your lack of ability to properly read a second slightly-related article.
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The Admiral
04/19/18 12:28:27 PM
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CableZL posted...
The Admiral posted...
It would help if you were consistent with criticizing the TC for posting inaccurate clickbait like you would anyone on the right who did the same.


You're claiming it's inaccurate based on your lack of ability to properly read a second slightly-related article.


The second article refutes the Rawstory claims, so no it isn't.
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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:28:51 PM
#38:


The Admiral posted...
CableZL posted...
The Admiral posted...
It would help if you were consistent with criticizing the TC for posting inaccurate clickbait like you would anyone on the right who did the same.


You're claiming it's inaccurate based on your lack of ability to properly read a second slightly-related article.


The second article refutes the Rawstory claims, so no it isn't.


How does it refute it?
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:28:55 PM
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The Admiral posted...
It would help if you were consistent with criticizing the TC for posting inaccurate clickbait like you would anyone on the right who did the same.

You'll harp on any detail you can when the post goes against your views but ignore wholesale exaggerations and misrepresentation in other cases when they align.


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MKScorpion
04/19/18 12:29:19 PM
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Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.[1]


- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

The Confederacy was racist which also makes their silly flag a symbol for racism too.
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:29:31 PM
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The Admiral posted...
The second article refutes the Rawstory claims, so no it isn't.


No, it doesn't refute the Rawstory claims. You're misrespresenting the MLive article with your own claims.
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Antifar
04/19/18 12:32:45 PM
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What's more, the MLive article does not, in fact, make the case that the flag wavers are the ones being harrassed

After the flags appeared Tuesday, 17-year-old junior Kendall Frost told The Bay City Times-MLive some of her fellow classmates organized the display on social media in what she believes was intended to intimidate and bully certain black students.

Kendall, who is black, provided screen caps of text messages with racial slurs. She also said some students told her and other black classmates they "shouldn't go to Western because of our skin tone."

In a Snapchat video taken by a Western student acquired by MLive, footage depicts at least three males in a vehicle recording the flags' demonstration. At one point, one of the males ca be heard swearing and using a racial slur as text appears on screen stating "Fly em high boys."

Frost said Wednesday her car is blocked in by two trucks bearing the Confederate flag.

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CableZL
04/19/18 12:33:45 PM
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This reminds me of one of the topics about the people who drove around terrorizing a black kid's birthday party waving guns, shouting racial slurs, and making death threats. Admiral said "it was just one person driving around" because he didn't read the article or watch the video in the article.
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FrisbeeDude
04/19/18 12:33:57 PM
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Articles on ABC and a newspaper in Detroit mirror the rawstory article. Addy is just a clown
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Bishop9800
04/19/18 12:36:56 PM
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Now it's time for the part where Addy tucks tail and run from this topic. What excuse will he use this time?
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Hexenherz
04/19/18 12:38:13 PM
#47:


FrisbeeDude posted...
CableZL posted...
The Admiral posted...
Yes it is. Im sorry you dont realize Rawstory is clickbait and are so easily duped by them. Read the MLive story in the link. The BLM counter-protesters showed up, called them racists, and tore a flag off one of the trucks. They were the antagonizers.

Im sorry if reality hurts your oppression narrative.


1) The MLive story doesn't say a BLM counter-protester tore a flag off of one of the trucks. The person mentioning the flag being torn off said it happened in the week prior, not at the event itself.
- Myers also said a Confederate flag of his was torn from his vehicle on school property last week.
2) The MLive story and the RawStory article are talking about two different things.


Addy has become the thing his used to complain about when he was a mod

Admiral was a mod?? *shudders*
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Antifar
04/19/18 12:40:16 PM
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Just as an aside, "heritage" defenses of the Confederate flag ring hollow when cited by Michiganders.
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CableZL
04/19/18 12:41:11 PM
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Antifar posted...
Just as an aside, "heritage" defenses of the Confederate flag ring hollow when cited by Michiganders.


Also when they state easily verifiable falsehoods in their arguments in support of the "heritage" defense.
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Bishop9800
04/19/18 12:43:07 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
Admiral was a mod?? *shudders*


That was when FAQ was desperate.
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