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The MAGA kids’ school seems to have rooted culture problem

📸: KJRH.com

More is being learned about the school at the center of last Friday’s controversy when a bunch of MAGA teens were caught on tape appearing to mock a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

Covington Catholic High School, in Park Hills, Kentucky is the school that’s facing huge backlash after the ‘mob mentality’ demonstrated by their students last week. According to reports, it’s an all boys school with a high tuition cost which doesn’t say much of anything other than it seems typical of every other private Catholic school around the country that is either all boys or all girls.

However what else is being learned about the school is their alleged rooted problems with cultural diversity within the walls of the institution.

Arien Parsa, a documentary film maker posted a series of tweets on Twitter over the weekend claiming to have not only identified the smug teen in the video but unearthed some of those cultural issues that may further give some detailed context as to why the those MAGA teens were acting like total fucking douchebags.

Parsa said the school was as close as you could get to a ‘whites only’ institution as you could get in the 21st century.

There was one former student who Parsa said he talked to who is of middle eastern decent. According to the student he had to transfer schools due to bullying and being called a ‘terrorist’ by the other kids. In addition to that though, the school also had a problem with homophobic slurs and sexism (which I presume is still a problem) as well as a diversity problem among the faculty.

In any sense though, go ahead and read though Parsa’s tweets for more details.

Parsa also came across another twitter thread in which a former student discussed his experienced being harassed for being gay.

And if you think the all-white majority of Covington may just be a result of the demographics of the area, well there’s this…

People who are trying to justify the behavior of these asshole kids too are pointing to some arbitrary ‘fact’ that bigotry happens in every high school across the country. Which they’re correct, I’m sure some kind of derogatory term has been muttered in just about every high school in the United States. But is it now the norm for high school kids to go out and show a blatant disrespect for another culture to the point that they become a national embarrassment?

Covington Catholic High School was apparently on a field trip to the “March of Live” in DC last week, something that I’m sure many religious schools take part in. And as far as I could tell there wasn’t any other school thrust into the spotlight due to outright bigotry.

Covington also isn’t the first high school to take part in an out of state, long field trip. Schools visit landmarks across the country on a yearly basis and yet I can’t recall something to this degree happening at not in the past 25 years.

Unfortunately a lot has changed in the past two-plus years. And given the pushback by some who are trying to make what happened Friday normal it’s probably not going to be the last time we something like this happen again.

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