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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by ysv2 on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:31PM (#19060843)
> No-one (left or right) would have found a word-fight between evenly-wrong grey characters very interesting if that was the story in the first place.

That you would rank the Covington kids as "evenly-wrong" with their racist (not to mention adult) abusers is incredible.

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by SECProto on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:56PM (#19060931)
Does the behaviour of one group somehow excuse the unacceptable behaviour of another? "Two wrongs don't make a right"?

(Not debating the "even-ness of wrongs", as that is a six-year-old's excuse for punching their sibling - "They started it!!")

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Re:Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing by smsm42 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:54AM (#19062363)
Except there was no unacceptable behavior from the part of the kids (unless you consider "standing and smiling while being abused by racists and nutcases" unacceptable behavior). That was a complete fabrication to make the story fit the narrative. There weren't two wrongs - there was just one wrong, and it was from the other side than the press claimed it to be.
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