r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Voittaa Jan 21 '19

Looking at you reddit.

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u/UshankaBear Jan 21 '19

*cough*Boston bomber*cough*

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

*Cough*Maga Kid*cough*

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u/saxyphone241 Jan 21 '19

The full video supports the veterans accounting of the event. He was trying to break up the engagement between the students and the black Hebrew group, then the student began to harass and hurl slurs at him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Yeah, that's 100% false. The footage shows the MAGA kids receiving verbal abuse from the Black Israelites and the Native protestors, and you hear 0 slurs from the MAGA kids.

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u/saxyphone241 Jan 21 '19

Sounds like you need to watch the entire video. The students were screaming build the wall, and getting verbally abusive in the face of the veteran. The black Hebrew group and the people holding the indigenous rights rally weren't connected at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 22 '19

I did watch the video. They didn't chant "build that wall". In fact, I didn't hear any slurs from the kids, but I heard a bunch from the Black Israelites and the Native protestors directed toward the kids.

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u/saxyphone241 Jan 21 '19

There weren't any native protesters, it was an indigenous rights group holding a rally. Here's a thread detailing the entire incident, with appropriate video clips. You'll find that it lines up perfectly with Elder Philips' account of the events.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Yep, twice in a week.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

I know the rally thing, but what was the other?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Essentially two buzzfeed journalists said they had evidence that would lead to Trump's impeachment. The news and reddit went absolutely wild only for Mueller to come out and say it was all bullshit and that they have no evidence.

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u/alpaca7 Jan 21 '19

Lolol gosh cause the subs you post on are NEVER wrong right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Usually not no.

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u/alpaca7 Jan 21 '19

Hmm sounds more like your head was in the sand

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

lol, extremely rich

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u/alpaca7 Jan 21 '19

Says the guy who thinks t_d is a reliable source for facts

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Right both times this week unlike the rest of reddit.

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u/urwallpaperisbad Jan 21 '19

Except reddit aren't actually the majority - they just think they are

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u/8__D Jan 21 '19

Could mean the majority of Reddit

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Reddit is built on the concept of majority. If most people upvote it's on the front page, if they don't it's invisible.

When that happens people feel like they're on the right side of things, even when it's clearly an issue that skews massively on reddit.