I will not say they are victims (at the protest at least). This whole situation is really stupid and contrived.
It's an example of "outrage culture" that I was posting about earlier, where the only purpose is to drive engagement via out of context pictures and snippets of video that have amateur commentary attached to them.
If it had been presented in full context from the get go, it wouldn't be a viral controversy.
It kind of worked on me even if I think those kids are idiots. Is a weird situation as the actual explanation is weirder than the initial video shows.
It definitely got me riled up initially.
Why aren't we dragging the black isrealites for being giant pieces of shit during all this? How did THAT only come up afterwards lmao
A lot of those "Black Israelite" groups are straight up black supremacists, so they obviously don't actually exist when you do the maths.
Those kids were there for a anti-abortion march, which is obviously consistent with being educated in a catholic school and catholic values against birth control, and are obviously also as a result skewed towards a US right wing perspective, but its their fucking right to peacefully assemble and protest whatever the fuck they want to, no matter what you might think of their beliefs.
"Make America Great Again" is such a fucking vapid political slogan that can mean almost anything to anyone that I find it ludicrous to state that it is the equivalent of a KKK hood, or assume there is no difference between wearing one or the other, or that their idea of "great" isn't more religious control over policy like teaching creationism, teaching abstinence instead of sex education, or whatever other things bible thumpers don't like about secularism.
I also find it fucking hilarious that the experts in human behaviour at era who don't know how to wipe their own ass or find someone willing to let them stick their pee-pees into va-jayjays / bumholes are now such experts in human interaction that they can discern the difference between bemusement - like if you're standing with a group of school peers and a dude comes up and starts banging a drum - and smug contempt.