Teenage Mitch supporter apologizes for "choking" AOC--and looks more adult than the adults

[Soph0571]

Well, that didn’t take long. Sometime on Monday night, Davis McIntire must have realized—though most likely with some prodding—that he’d really stepped in it when he took a picture of himself and his friends mock-choking a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. How do we know? He scrubbed his old Instagram account and created a new one with this image apologizing to AOC.

[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/6/1877279/-Teenage-Mitch-supporter-apologizes-for-choking-AOC-and-looks-more-adult-than-the-adults?utm_campaign=trending|

I am going to go with the lads had a change of heart - when the error of their ways was pointed out to them - and this apology is not just because they were doxed. When I posted about the first incident - I said I was disappointed that 21st Century boys felt that this was OK. I have got a little bit of that hope 21st Century hope back....

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. They're only sorry that they're getting heat for it. That's all.

[Hortensis]

13. On, come on. These are adolescents. What their

friends are doing and thinking is overwhelmingly influential at that age.

Personally, I'm going with this kid's parents sat him down and had a very serious talk with him that ranged from what was wrong with this, they behaviors they expect of their son, his friends, and potentially severe consequences of actions. They wouldn't exactly have to be great moralists to feel a need to correct this behavior.

[tblue37]

14. + 1. nt

[demmiblue]

2. Good on them. n/t

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, the teen is being enabled by dumb asses leasing them

[JI7]

4. apologize to mcconnell for what ? looks more like an attempt to save their reputations and future

fuck them . fuck mcconnell. and fuck that school.

[marble falls]

7. I was onboard until Moscow Mitch's name was put into the mix. I don't ...

think McConnell had an iota of problem with that photo.

[tblue37]

15. This. nt

[MaryMagdaline]

5. This is a good apology.

I, too, have done evil shit in my life and have had remorse. Sometimes I’ve been blinded to how much evil is really within. These types of events can change a young life. Maybe he’s got a chance to be a decent person. Of course it’s AOC who has the right to accept or reject the apology. At least it’s a real apology.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Disagree that it's a good apology. What is he sorry for? Do we even know he wrote/posted it?

What will he do to make amends? What has he learned? Simply saying "I'm sorry, I was wrong" without context is the bare-ass minimum of what an apology should be.

[MaryMagdaline]

11. It's an apology without the "but, but" excuses

Direct and to the point. That’s what apologies are supposed to be. Now he can reflect and try to get better.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. That's a generous perspective.

[dem4decades]

6. Has Moscow Mitch apologized for his posting of the headstones?

Apologize to him? Fuck him.

[elias7]

8. Now we just need a few Republicans to say they were wrong

About climate change
about health care
about social justice
about social safety net
about the military
about economic and tax policy
about gun control
about Trump

[KPN]

9. I'm not convinced. Let me put it this way.

This is what Kavanaugh would have done had he been caught and outed at the same age — to save his future ambitions.

I’ll buy it in another 20 or 30 years. The jury’s out till then.

[Tom Rinaldo]

16. Since I haven't talked to him personally, or seen him interviewed at length, I don't know for sure

But it is in my nature and my values to accept this as a real apology until I have reason to know otherwise. As was pointed out above, it has no 'but" qualifiers, no excuses made, no false equivalency comparison deflections to any misdeeds that someone "on the other side" has done. The fact that this apology does not delve into an examination of his error can be taken as evidence that he wrote it himself, rather than being told what to write. Based on his initial actions, this probably isn't a person who had given a great deal of thought to misogyny and racism before.

I don't find the fact that he apologized to McConnell off putting. He feels that his actions brought shame to the campaign of a candidate who he supports, however misguided we may think that support is. We have no way of knowing what his politics will look like when he is ten years older than he is today. The fact that he apologized however leaves some room for hope.