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This is worth a few minutes. I’ll transcribe some of it also:
Chris Long with the best five minutes you’ll hear today on the Jason Kelce situation.
“The internet culture has ruined real life and there’s too many people who grew up in situations where they never got punched in the face.”
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“I think the biggest problem with today’s generation of kids, I hate to say it like that, I sound like an old man, but I think everything’s about clout now, in the world, period, and it’s hard as a media member not to fall in these traps. Everybody is chasing clout. It’s the quickest way that I can get my five minutes of fame… I think nowadays, a kid that gets smacked in the face, might say ‘hey look I got smacked in the face by Jason Kelce, oh look what I have on my phone, he smacked the phone out of my hand, I win.’ It’s basically like internet trolls in person. And for the most part, those people know there’s a line, but then there’s some people like that… People have no respect anymore for each other, and I think the internet culture has ruined real life and there’s too many people who grew up in situations where they never got punched in the face. I’m not saying that’s a prerequisite to being an adult, but I’m pretty sure that guy never got punched in the face. I’m not saying that’s a rite of passage for every American, but if you’re going to act that way…”
It all stems from the accountability tree. There is no accountability. The branches are dead and the trunk is petrified. Or, if you’re in the Philadelphia region, the tree was destroyed by ash borer beetles several years ago. But yeah, the repercussion used to be that you got punched in the face and taught a lesson, and you learned the hard way. But now if Jason Kelce punches the kid in the face, the kid actually benefits from that. He sues and Jason Kelce is charged with assault, proven on video because 700 people are standing there filming the entire thing.
So at the end of the day, what happens to the kid? Anything? Maybe, maybe not. The onus is more on the recipient of the initial taunting and clown behavior, and while Jason could have kept his cool in that situation, I don’t think anyone blames him for losing it. The accountability should fall more on the douchebags starting things, not the people who respond to the provocation.
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