Juno News - January 23, 2019


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2 minutes

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Word count

633

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27

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6

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1

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A few weeks ago, I was on the subway with a bunch of high schoolers and they were just doing what teenagers do. They were goofing around, talking, goofing off, making jokes, saying swear words, and just being teenagers. And then, out of nowhere, a MAGA hat-wearing white man wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat comes up and confronts them with a Native American man.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, I got a whole lot of thoughts on this whole Covington High School, non-story,
00:00:09.520 social contagion, mass hysteria, fake news, whatever you want to call the thing.
00:00:13.800 And I'm sure you do too, because there are so many different angles, so many different
00:00:17.400 things to talk about what is really just a random exchange between two people in a public
00:00:22.920 space where really not all that much happened.
00:00:26.080 But the main thing, the main scene, the main image that keeps coming back to me is the
00:00:29.980 is nothing from this.
00:00:31.560 It's something that happened to me the other week when I was heading home and I got on
00:00:34.960 the subway and I'm sitting there and I'm reading my book and a bunch of high schoolers, a bunch
00:00:38.980 of teenagers all got on en masse at one stop where their high school was, they were heading
00:00:43.220 home.
00:00:43.740 And they were totally oblivious to the rest of us and they just come on and they got their
00:00:47.080 backpacks that are kind of jostling around and they're just telling their jokes, they're 0.99
00:00:50.940 goofing around with each other, they're saying stupid stuff and there's some swear words here 0.99
00:00:54.960 and there and so forth. 1.00
00:00:55.880 It was a mixed bag of girls and guys and it was an ethnically diverse crowd and so forth
00:01:00.720 and they're just, they're just being teenagers.
00:01:04.080 And at one point I guess someone jostled into me and they kind of knocked the book I was 0.99
00:01:07.620 reading and I had a brief moment of grumpy old man writing all those darn kids. 0.98
00:01:11.520 And I said to myself, Fury, come on, don't kid yourself. 0.99
00:01:14.160 I'm sure you were just like that, heading home from school all excited.
00:01:17.520 Maybe they just, you know, had some candy, some sugar or what have you and they're all just
00:01:21.460 just doing their thing, doing what teenagers do.
00:01:25.020 And if at any moment during that I had brought out a camera and done snap, snap, snap, snap,
00:01:28.700 snap and caught a whole bunch of images, I'm sure you could see a frame where one of them
00:01:32.200 had a nasty look on their face where it looked like they were looking at a person of a different
00:01:36.760 demographic in an incorrect way.
00:01:38.980 And we could have gone and we could have put that up there and we could have made a whole
00:01:42.000 national conversation about it and named them and shamed them and said horrible things
00:01:45.860 about that.
00:01:46.380 Why would we do that though?
00:01:49.100 Who does that?
00:01:50.820 What kind of person even cares about a scene like that?
00:01:54.460 And that is the thing that is most troubling about all of this.
00:01:57.160 We're learning more about these young people.
00:01:59.220 We're learning more about the Native American man that casts all this nuance onto the story.
00:02:03.720 But the whole bottom line, the thing that frustrates me so much and puts it why we're in such
00:02:09.160 dangerous territory right now and why it is so shameful that so many media people and politicians
00:02:14.200 even said anything about it, period, is that something like that could happen to anyone.
00:02:21.620 Now I know this one had the perfect ingredients, a young white man and a MAGA hat and a Native 1.00
00:02:27.060 American man.
00:02:27.860 I get it was the perfect cocktail.
00:02:29.840 But in a different situation, the role is a little different here and there, something
00:02:33.180 else could sprout up at any time.
00:02:35.580 And it could happen to you.
00:02:37.140 It could happen to your younger brother or sister.
00:02:39.140 It could happen to your son and daughter.
00:02:41.260 And that's why this whole thing is such a shame.
00:02:45.320 It's such a mess.
00:02:46.720 And it's a scandal for all of the people out there who perpetrated it, who played a role
00:02:51.460 in furthering this whole scene.
00:02:52.940 Thank you.
00:02:53.620 You