Catholic high school bigots?

There was much in the news a while ago about a video showing about 100 Catholic high school boys wearing MAGA hats, shipped into DC to attend an anti-abortion march, mocking a Native American elder. The video went viral and there was condemnation of the boys' actions. But then there was an equal and opposite backlash to the condemnation, with Trump coming out in support of them.

Some conservatives have said that the boys should be excused from their behavior because there were near some members of the tiny anti-Semitic sect, Black Hebrew Israelites, the extreme fringe of which is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-Jewish and Black supremacist, who were being obnoxious.

But how does being near a group of vocal religious extremists somehow force Catholic teens into becoming anti-Native American bigots? What I think is more probable is that those high school kids already were bigots .... they were proudly wearing MAGA hats, evidencing their support for Trump, a man who has many times shown his contempt for Native Americans in particular and non-whites in general.

It's hard to come to any other conclusion when seeing footage of the event - here's an interview of Tara Houska, a tribal attorney who works in DC, often with Bernie Sanders, who was actually there when the confrontation took place ...



PS - maybe shipping out-of-state Catholic high school kids to anti-abortion marches isn't a really great idea, for anyone.

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