Teens eating at a burger joint got attacked by a man because they had a MAGA hat and supported Donald Trump. The man took the hat, splashed the kid with a soda and said the hat would be going into his fireplace. How common are attacks like these and is civility going out the window? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| A group of teenagers were eating at a Whataburger in San Antonio, Texas. | ||
| One of the teens, 16 years old, was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat. | ||
| For this reason, a man attacked him, stole the hat off his head, and then took a full liter of soda and splashed it on the kid. | ||
| He walked away saying the hat was going into his fireplace. | ||
| This kind of behavior to most people is unacceptable. | ||
| A grown man should not be attacking children And we shouldn't be attacking each other over political beliefs anyway. | ||
| There have been a lot of stories about people who have been harassed because they're Trump supporters or because they're wearing MAGA hats. | ||
| And it's just another example of the divide in this country. | ||
| So today, the question I want to explore is, what is going on in the realm of incivility? | ||
| And why is it that one side has deemed it appropriate to actually be not civil? | ||
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| A story from the independent Texas teenager attacked on video for wearing Make America Great Again hat. | ||
| Unidentified suspect hurls drink in 16-year-old Hunter Richards' face while saying, you ain't supporting S. Mr. Hunter, who is from Texas City, was having a meal with his friends at Whataburger restaurant in Thousand Oaks when the incident took place. | ||
| I support my president, and if you don't, let's have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off, Mr. Hunter told News 4 San Antonio. | ||
| I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me. | ||
| He added, I was looking at the comments by some people, and they are like, this is uncalled for, and other people have mixed opinions. | ||
| I didn't think it would blow up to what it is now. | ||
| And here's the video on Twitter. | ||
| So, went out for a 2 a.m. | ||
| snack, and my friend wearing a MAGA hat had his hat stolen and a drink thrown in his face, and mine. | ||
| You can see my arms on the left of the video. | ||
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Support the president. | |
| You ain't supporting shit, nigga! | ||
| Big ass motherfuckers. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is gonna go great in my fuckin' fireplace, bitch. | ||
| Alright, have fun with it. | ||
| As of right now, this video's got 10,000 retweets and 2.11 million views. | ||
| And an update from just last night, the man was identified. | ||
| His place of work was identified. | ||
| A bar called Rumble announced he was being fired. | ||
| They said, hello friends, it came to our attention earlier this evening that a part-time employee was captured on cell phone video assaulting another person at a local eatery. | ||
| The assault took place, presumably because his employee did not agree with the other individual's political stance. | ||
| We have since terminated this employee, as his actions go against everything that this establishment stands for. | ||
| Rumble has, and always will be, a bar that is as inclusive as any establishment could possibly be. | ||
| This bar is a safe space for everyone, no matter your race, creed, ethnicity, sexual identity, and political stance. | ||
| You are welcomed here. | ||
| We do not condone the actions or behavior that were displayed in the cell phone video, and we never will. | ||
| If you have any questions or concerns, please message us privately. | ||
| We support and appreciate your business. | ||
| This all took place in the early morning of July 4th. | ||
| It is now July 5th, and people have started talking about it, and news articles have started popping up. | ||
| But let's not forget some of these other stories. | ||
| From May 16th, Trump supporter says, Cheesecake Factory employees were clenching their fists. | ||
| It was just sad. | ||
| The 22-year-old Trump supporter who was verbally attacked by staff at a Miami Cheesecake Factory restaurant over his Make America Great Again hat described the moment as just really wrong in an interview on Wednesday's edition of Fox & Friends. | ||
| They all started getting behind us, and one of the workers was saying, I'll knock that hat off his head, I'll hit him so hard that I'll knock his hat off, recalled Eugene Joseph of Sunday's incident. | ||
| They were clenching their fists and standing behind me, trying to scare us and stuff. | ||
| I wasn't really intimidated by anything, but it was just sad. | ||
| Cheesecake Factory actually made a statement about this. | ||
| We are very disappointed to learn that two staff members made disparaging remarks about Mr. Joseph's hat that made him and his family feel unwelcome, said the restaurant in a statement shared with Fox & Friends. | ||
| As a result, those two employees are no longer employed with the company. | ||
| Then there's this story from November 2016. | ||
| MD high schooler attacked for wearing pro-Trump hat. | ||
| A suspect was in custody Wednesday and will be charged with second-degree assault after attacking another student who wore a hat bearing the words, Make America Great Again, the campaign slogan of President-elect Donald Trump, according to WUSA 9 television. | ||
| And when we look back at stories that claim Trump hat-wearing people attacked others, It turns out that some of them aren't true. | ||
| Police say woman made up story of attack by two men, one wearing a Trump hat. | ||
| Update. | ||
| The Lafayette Police Department said Thursday that a woman had fabricated the story about two men, one of them in a Trump hat, attacking her on her way to class at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. | ||
| The incident is no longer under investigation. | ||
| And this from Huffington Post. | ||
| Now, there absolutely are stories about people wearing Trump hats attacking others. | ||
| This from April. | ||
| According to police, the suspect got into a verbal argument with the victim before punching him in the head on a 4 train as it approached the Union Square station in Manhattan. | ||
| The alleged assailant then followed the man, described by police as being 24 years old and Hispanic, off the train and shoved him onto the tracks. | ||
| The stories do go both ways. | ||
| The news said, "...wanted black male wearing a red hat and red shirt both | ||
| with the words, Make America Great Again, blue overalls and a black three-quarter | ||
| jacket, and jewelry around his neck, | ||
| wanted for assaulting a man on the 4 train platform in Union Square." | ||
| The stories do go both ways. | ||
| However, in that story, it seems like it might not have anything to do with politics. | ||
| Now I haven't gone through every single story about political attacks. | ||
| I haven't gone through every single story about people wearing Trump hats attacking others, or people wearing Trump hats getting attacked by others. | ||
| But I did a general search on Google, and most of the stories are about people wearing Trump hats getting attacked, not attacking others. | ||
| This story from April 13th. | ||
| NYC tourist robbed at knife point of Make America Great Again hat. | ||
| Two men, one brandishing a knife, robbed a New York City tourist of his red Make America Great Again hat, police said. | ||
| The 18-year-old Danish victim, whose name was not disclosed, was about to enter the subway in Union Square Thursday at 5.40 p.m. | ||
| when a man grabbed him from behind and swiped the red baseball-style cap from his head. | ||
| There was a struggle over the hat when a second man flashed a knife and pointed it at the victim before the two men made off with the hat. | ||
| This story from Eater.com. | ||
| A Chicago bar bans Make America Great Again hats. | ||
| And just last month, judge rules New York City bar can refuse service to Trump supporter wearing MAGA hat. | ||
| Restaurants are refusing service to people for wearing the hats. | ||
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders is kicked out of a restaurant. | ||
| Those things are kind of minor annoyances. | ||
| But then we do have many stories of people being attacked, berated, or even robbed at knife point for wearing Trump hats. | ||
| This is all unacceptable. | ||
| And I'm surprised there's anybody who agrees that this is okay. | ||
| The political rhetoric is getting so insane that people are justifying attacks on 16-year-old kids eating cheeseburgers simply because of something the government is doing. | ||
| If you have a problem with what the government is doing, you need to take it up with the government. | ||
| If you're mad that someone supports the government, the government is still the one doing the thing wrong. | ||
| I can't say this definitively, but in my opinion, having covered these Trump rallies throughout his campaign, and covering many of these protests since before Donald Trump's campaign until now, It seems like, for the most part, the people committing acts of violence against peaceful, law-abiding citizens are the left attacking the right. | ||
| There absolutely are instances of far-right terrorism. | ||
| I'm not denying that or apologizing for that, excusing it in any way. | ||
| I'm simply pointing out that when it comes to stories or incidents where regular people are minding their own business, it tends to be the left attacking the right. | ||
| We don't really see Trump supporters going around that often and just randomly attacking people on the far left. | ||
| Sure, it does happen. | ||
| Fights do break out. | ||
| But many of these stories are people being identified for wearing a hat and then being attacked for it. | ||
| Even when we look at stories about what happened in Portland with Patriot Prayer, This is Alexander Reed Ross, who is far left, and even he acknowledges the far left started the fight, although he tries to weasel around it. | ||
| He says, quote, the Antifa attacked us. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| The videos show the two sides facing off on Main Street after a firework went off in the far right's crowd, which was not any kind of coordinated action by the Antifa. | ||
| The far right charged as a horde indiscriminately beating people. | ||
| Translation. | ||
| Someone from the Antifa side threw a mortar at Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys, initiating the conflict. | ||
| And that is not justification for the street battles at all. | ||
| It does not absolve anyone on the left or right of responsibility. | ||
| The left threw a mortar, a fight broke out. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| But the point I'm trying to make is that even when the far left took And getting back to the point about civility, we have this terrifyingly racist statement from Muna Meyer. | ||
| the right. And getting back to the point about civility, we have this terrifyingly racist statement | ||
| from Muna Meyer. She says, civility is also white Anglo culture. She adds that she's never met a | ||
| polite African or Jew that insisted on manners over urgency. | ||
| Stop forcing WASP culture on us, LMAO. I can't say I was shocked to see a tweet like that. | ||
| Accusing minorities of not being polite is ridiculous and something I would normally believe a | ||
| white supremacist would say. | ||
| But no, here we have a social justice activist claiming that civility is white culture and that certain minorities are not polite. | ||
| When even they embrace the fact that they are not civil. | ||
| When even people on the left acknowledge that the conflict is started by someone throwing a mortar into a crowd. | ||
| And when you do a Google search about attacks with MAGA hats, you typically only hear stories about people who are wearing the hat being attacked. | ||
| But let me know what you think in the comments below. | ||
| No doubt the left will see this video and say, oh look, Tim's right-wing and he's supporting conservatives. | ||
| And I want to point out something that I tweeted earlier. | ||
| Many people talk about the left and the right, not in terms of politics, but in terms of their tribe. | ||
| I have no tribe. | ||
| I don't want to make sure that's perfectly clear. | ||
| I have no problem pointing out that a man in a MAGA hat pushed another man onto subway tracks. | ||
| But when I do the research, when I do the search, when I look at the archives of news stories, this is what I find. | ||
| And if the left is not willing to recognize that they have these problems, they are going to lose in November. | ||
| This should be more of a warning to people on the left. | ||
| Many of my friends, pretty much the only people I hang out with, are leftists, and some of them are actually SJWs. | ||
| They're coming around and recognizing that the rhetoric is getting crazy and so is the violence, and I hope that trend continues if the left is going to have any semblance of real A chance at actual competition come November. | ||
| So let me know what you think. | ||
| Again, comment below. | ||
| We'll keep the conversation going. | ||
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