volinbham
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Could it be that people are still talking about it because there's no shortage of people suggesting violence is justified against some kids? Nah.
Could it be that people are still talking about it because there's no shortage of people suggesting violence is justified against some kids? Nah.
Twitter, some are real people being sincerely ignorant, bust mostly people hiding behind a persona, who will say anything to push an agenda, or just be a dick. That's where you go if your button needs a push.
This is more in the category of a "false narrative" than anything else... A picture of a smug looking kid standing in the face of a Native American lent itself to speculation that the kid was being a p***k. He looked the part. Is that fair? No, but both party's are guilty of running with a false narrative that suits their agenda. Remember the suspicious packages that were being sent to Democrats last fall? Conservatives on Fox News (Lou Dobbs, Geraldo Rivera) and elsewhere (Rush Limbaugh) speculated that they must have been "false flags", sent by liberals to generate sympathy for themselves and to make conservatives look bad just before the mid-term elections. This theory proved to be false and ridiculous. We are in a politically polarized era, where at times, people aren't waiting to get all the information needed before passing their own judgment and condemning people they are already opposed to anyway.This is why no one trust the news and Trump keeps stating fake news every chance he gets.
The waters are so muddy now you can’t tell what’s real anymore or who to trust.
Society is on a verge of collapse if things don’t change.
Two of them back to back that reinforces a particular false agenda, along with all the daily 24/7 SOS from the majority of the media?This is more in the category of a "false narrative" than anything else... A picture of a smug looking kid standing in the face of a Native American lent itself to speculation that the kid was being a p***k. He looked the part. Is that fair? No, but both party's are guilty of running with a false narrative that suits their agenda. Remember the suspicious packages that were being sent to Democrats last fall? Conservatives on Fox News (Lou Dobbs, Geraldo Rivera) and elsewhere (Rush Limbaugh) speculated that they must have been "false flags", sent by liberals to generate sympathy for themselves and to make conservatives look bad just before the mid-term elections. This theory proved to be false and ridiculous. We are in a politically polarized era, where at times, people aren't waiting to get all the information needed before passing their own judgment and condemning people they are already opposed to anyway.
One was admittedly bad journalism (BuzzFeed, a fringe outlet - not MSM) and the other was simply a rush to judgment, which is not good... but an honest mistake, nevertheless.Two of them back to back that reinforces a particular false agenda, along with all the daily 24/7 SOS from the majority of the media?
Yeah, it's the same thing.
"Honest mistake", OK. a rush to judgment because it lines up with your prejudice is not an honest mistake.
Fair enough... but if you want to be consistent, then you really do have to say the same thing about the conservatives who were crying "False flag!" in October when those packages were being sent to Democrats."Honest mistake", OK. a rush to judgment because it lines up with your prejudice is not an honest mistake.