Talk:Indigenous Peoples March

Aggressor

This page should be updated to follow the changes on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_(activist) which correctly indicate that Phillips was the aggressor. Hobbe Yonge (talk) 00:03, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Well, first of all, the sentence that was in Nathan Phillips' page and that you tried to add to this one said "debate and scrutiny emerged over whether Nathan Phillips was the aggressor or the peacemaker", not that Phillips was the aggressor. Secondly, I removed that sentence from this article because it was sourced to an article that didn't say that at all. Someone else removed the sentence from the Nathan Phillips article before I had a chance to. GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:10, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3EC1_gcr34&t=1h12m20s&app=desktop

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-lincoln-memorial-hoax/

https://twitter.com/meghanmongillo/status/1086834102983110656?s=21

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1087100286433402881?s=19

http://archive.is/GRjLh

http://archive.is/wccBT

For once, be ahead of the curve and change all this bullshit. The kids are getting death threats. Hobbe Yonge (talk) 00:27, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Please review WP:Reliable sources. The National Review source is the only one that could potentially be usable, and it says nothing about Phillips being "the aggressor". GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:32, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

They cannot let the narrative be broken. They will not let you correct the record. The truth is irrelevant.

Best course of action is to start a new wiki page called on this event calling it the Lincoln Memorial Hoax. Your concern for the kids is admirable, but those that are invested in the narrative do not care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:601:5800:EDB2:E3E9:F81E:59F7 (talk) 01:29, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

I would not recommend that. If you'd like an article that reflects your opinions on what happened without citing reliable sources, I'd recommend finding a different platform or hosting it yourself. GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:38, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-covington.html Irishfrisian (talk) 03:28, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Irishfrisian, this I can work with. GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:50, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-students-full-video-shows-viral-protest-new-light/2635085002/. Irishfrisian (talk) 15:58, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

@Irishfrisian: Is there anything specific in that article that you think is missing from this page? GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:29, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Here are some backups of the full video just in case the YouTube one gets deleted. 1 2 RandomUser3510 (talk) 12:49, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/picture-of-the-conflict-on-the-mall-comes-into-clearer-focus/2019/01/20/c078f092-1ceb-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d57dd463c87e Irishfrisian (talk) 15:09, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Propose splitting the article

PROPOSAL: Propose splitting this article into two articles (1) Indigenous Peoples' March (2) Covington Catholic Incident.

DISCUSSION: Rationale: Seems to me the incident with the Covington High School has notability of its own, to the point of taking over the documentation of the "first ever" Indigenous People's March. According to the article, the Covington incident didn't even happen at the same time as the march and it involved participants of other concurrent marches (Black Hebrew Israelites and March for Life). Why not establish its notability and separate the separate topics into different articles. Other thoughts? Peace, MPS (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

VOTING:

• Support as nominator MPS (talk) 17:01, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

DISCUSSION:

• Certainly Covington Catholic Incident is not suitable as an article name, in many many ways. Just putting this in here quickly so that I can say, hi MPS!, and, what a coincidence! MPS1992 (talk) 17:23, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
  • we can certainly figure out a name... naming an article is sort of a separate discussion from the decision to split... the topic is clear cut, but any name would need to be something that the news media converge on... but there are ghits on both "covington incident" and "covington catholic incident" ... and also: greetings to my MPS twin! Peace, MPS (talk) 17:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
  • Lincoln Memorial Incident? Jürgen Eissink (talk) 20:06, 22 January 2019 (UTC).
  • anyone has google search data in terms of the most relevant search people had for the incident? whether it be covington school incident, near-brawl, or even Sandman-Phillips Incident some sort like that?WeifengYang (talk) 20:22, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
• I'm tryng to see if there's any sourcing for the March pre-1/18, but only some pages on planning, registration, and where-to-meet. (There were other IPM's in local cities apparently last Columbus Day?) I would be hard pressed to say that's enough to make the March itself notable as completely separate from the incident. I recognize trying to avoid disrespecting what the March was to serve with the focus on the incident, but I see little else we can do outside of a name change, and even then, its hard to determine what the consensus is. That said, should the IPM become an annual event (or even repeated at cities on Columbus Day) then there's a good change the event can be made its own page. --Masem (t) 19:21, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
• Agreed with Masem, I think we'd be hard pressed coverage-wise to have a separate article on the march. GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:55, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
• The material about the protest incident filled up the lede and needed to be put in its own section, which I did, although the name of the section is something optional. The incident writing in the lede needed trimming, and most of that is done. -Inowen (nlfte) 21:33, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
  • Interesting suggestion to change the name of the article... If only notability of this particular indigenous march is the protest incident, then why not change the name of the article to the protest incident aka Covington-Indigenous March-Black Hebrew Israelites IncidentAlso, it is worth noting that March for Life (Washington, D.C.) covers a whole bunch of different marches... I wonder if there have ever been other Indigenous marches in DC before. If so, could merge this event's indigenous march content to a catchall article on indiginous people's marches in DC. Peace, MPS (talk) 21:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps Religious minority marches in Washington in 2018, since Catholics are also a religious minority. MPS1992 (talk) 00:05, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

• If the Indigenous Peoples March indeed had thousands of participants, I think it's notable on its own despite a relative paucity of news coverage. I would tend to think that the incident should be part of this existing article (or possibly Covington Catholic High School), but in a more condensed narrative that will become clearer and easier to write as time goes on. The incident is similar in its cultural impact to the Build the Wall bullying of students in in late 2016 (even if it's not confirmed the phrase was used here, the culture war aspect over a viral video is similar).-Pharos (talk) 04:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Here you go. I'm too new to start this but someone else can click on it:

Main article: 2019 Lincoln Memorial controversy

Burtbroil (talk) 04:23, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Why the article?

Why the notability? Seems because the incident was recorded and went viral in the public and also topical in the news media. What's it about? The main categories seem to be teenage politics, conservative activism, and activism associated with education (in this case conservative education). Why the outrage? Seems to be due to the usage of young people as activists, and how young people normally behave being amplified by politics. Who's paying for it? The union of MAGA and Right to Life, along with the bus rides from distant high schools indicate funding. The label of Catholic on the high school and the associated activism indicate either the Pope is directing (unlikely) or the teens are being piloted by older conservative activists, who appear to be unnamed. -Inowen (nlfte) 22:12, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

It's certainly surprising (to me) that hundreds of children are being bussed in from hundreds (I think?) of miles away, by their school, in order to attend an anti-abortion rally, supervised by teachers and apparently wearing identikit clothing as well? And this happens every year? To anyone outside the USA, this would just seem really really weird. MPS1992 (talk) 22:17, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Find some answers here: March for Life (Washington, D.C.). Jürgen Eissink (talk) 22:42, 22 January 2019 (UTC).

Wow. The USA is even more strange than I thought. Thank you. MPS1992 (talk) 00:04, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

"Why?" tag

@Inowen: Can you explain why you added the {{why}} tag to At the end of the formal program, an incident (see section below) occurred between a group of high school students who had been attending a concurrent March for Life rally, and and a smaller group of people who had marched in the Indigenous Peoples March, with focus on American Indian activist Nathan Phillips.? I'm not sure what's unclear about it. GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:06, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Owensboro Catholic High School

Not sure how to fit it into the article, but Owensboro Catholic High School#Controversy mentions some additional fallout from the Covington Catholic controversy. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 08:27, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Parallels to Gamergate

This somewhat mirrors the Gamergate Controversy, in that now a very notable part of this event is the reaction to it, namely the harrassment and death threats the kids have received. The Washington Post has a good summary of it all here. Mr Ernie (talk) 10:18, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

MAGAkids incident article created

Ok, based on discussion, I split the article. MAGAkids incident covers the face-off between Covington MAGA-hat kids, black hebrews, and Nathan Phillips... while the Indigenous Peoples March article covers the march itself. Peace, MPS (talk) 18:26, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Why did you choose that name for it? It seems to barely have any usage in reliable sources, only in hashtags - it fails both WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NPOV. For now, I've renamed it to 2019 Indigenous Peoples March Incident. --Aquillion (talk) 19:04, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I am not actually wedded to this name, but noboday came up with a better one in my split proposal discussion I started above. My bid was "Covington Catholic Incident" due to ghits but I was told in editor discusison above that that was clearly beyond the pale. I didn't want to name a specific high school or a specific group, and IMHO the incident was only loosely affiliated with the conduct of the IPM. It seems to me kids wearing MAGA gear is a critical reason the event went viral. Peace, MPS (talk) 21:02, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

covington school controversy

the school is well ranked at number 17 in the state and the kids are well behaved educated. they go on to great universities like ganiesville albany new york wisconsin.. they are kids come on already. they have good hearts and were showing off .the kid in the video was shocked at the attention but hes no racist.. his school friend in the video is a spanish speaking guy who clearly is a descendant of mexicand or south americans they are good kids no need to geralize. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.139.193.163 (talk) 08:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a forum for discussing our opinions on current events. That said, if you have some well-sourced information that you think should be added to articles, I encourage you to participate in the Wikipedia project. No original research though (And it can't violate Wikipedia's non-negotiable policy on biographies of living people). Peace, MPS (talk) 17:15, 24 January 2019 (UTC)