Comments on: The Covington chronicles: on hating the face of a teenage boy https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420124 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:32:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420124 That story really isn’t about forgiveness. It’s about “Lashon haRa,” evil speech. Once it’s out there, it’s impossible to call it back. I doubt whether those boys, or that school, will ever get their reputations back. Has anybody ever followed up on the Duke Lacrosse team or Mattress Girl’s ex-boyfriend to see how they are doing?

]]> By: Francesca https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420071 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:34:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420071 I am still VERY angry at the treatment of the young boys at the pro-life rally. They were totally innocent as the various videos showed, and yet the left and the media were and are vicious in their treatment of this event.

This is beginning to remind me of the Cultural Revolution in China. If you need to refresh your memory of that, please do.
Our caving in with regard to political correctness has empowered this.
We have failed to push back on all this. If we don’t begin to push back now, we are going to get terrible results in the future.

]]> By: El Polacko https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420053 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:43:20 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420053 When did it become a crime against humanity to laugh in the face of a burned out old hippie?

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420045 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:35:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420045 Thanks for the link to the post on forgiveness, Neo. Repentance by the transgressor is always part of the commandment to forgive someone. “Repentance” includes not only feeling sorry about the transgression, but a turning of the heart and correction of behavior and consequences to the extent possible. How do I forgive someone who isn’t sorry? I can let it go emotionally, so that my anger doesn’t destroy me, but right relations cannot be restored with someone who has deliberately caused harm unless that person repents.

]]> By: Phillipa Crawford https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420037 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:12:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420037 I saw a report this morning (Tuesday) that the Covington school is closed today due to this mess.

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420034 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:10:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420034 I bet!

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420030 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:55:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420030 It’s lucky for that guy I never met him again in the Fleet.

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420029 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:51:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420029 She was not a weak woman. Had she been a weaker woman I would still be in prison.

]]> By: Steve57 https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420028 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:46:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420028 Julie near Chicago, I was once saved by a Julie. Shortly after Tailhook hunting for scalps was how to get promoted. Now, she was drunk. It was a party.And I did walk her back to her room and pour her a glass of water anWhad give her an aspirin. But I didn’t do what the elements of the command accused me of. Rape.

What happened was some guy who had the hots for her somehow got into her room. And my executive officer caught him. They were threatening her with conduct unbecoming and a court martial. But she refused to fold. I will love her to the end of of time.

]]> By: Julie near Chicago https://thenewneo.com/2019/01/21/the-covington-chronicles-on-hating-the-face-of-a-teenage-boy/#comment-2420004 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 05:47:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=84067#comment-2420004 Richard, that’s an excellent story. I haven’t heard it before. It surely does make the point! Thanks.

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Neo, I’ve read about halfway through your posting on forgiveness; thanks very much for the link. To be honest, I’ve never in 7 1/2 decades on the planet figured out what the word is supposed to mean. Your posting itself, in particular, I found extremely interesting. I believe it will be helpful.

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As to the present issue, I can only say that the whole thing is appalling. And absolutely of a piece with the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh. Not the incident itself, which would surely amount to something like a quarter-day’s wonder, but the vitriol, the self-righteous outpouring of evil from the mouths and the keyboards of these people!

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Frankly, I too thought Phillips came off as a half-loony old guy with an obsession.

It also bothers me somewhat — and this is really O/T — that some people referred to the high-schoolers as “children.” In this context, I think it is to be hoped that they would behave with some self-restraint and maturity.

And I think they did.

Their conduct was anything but childish. Young, yes; childish, far from it.

And I have no problem with the MAGA hats. Telling them not to wear those is not the same as telling a comely young woman not to go into certain areas late at night (or, in fact, at all). And it is certainly not the same as having the common sense to tell your local Party Headquarters not to have posters of effing Che hanging on the wall! Or telling your kid not to go to school (or anywhere else except the loo) wearing a Mao T-shirt. Not that either of these actions would cause the deranged and unhinged leftish sorts the slightest upset.

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