mekka okereke Apr 13, 2023

🤔 Y'all pretend to be worried about "disinformation" in journalism and social media...

But you just accept a Washington Post report describing a violent, racist, traitor leaking government secrets (about an ongoing war!) to a chatroom full of racist kids and young men he's radicalizing, as a "charismatic gun enthusiast?" Y'all are deeply unserious people.

You don't care about disinformation at all, as long as the disinfo is in the usual US direction: downplaying racism that hurts Black folk.

Show threadQueen of AnxietyApr 13, 2023
@mekkaokereke I was like “These gun enthusiasts are definitely racists, right?” And the article didn’t talk about that. It painted it in such a harmless light I stopped reading.
Show threadSophie SchmiegApr 13, 2023
@queenofnewyork @mekkaokereke it's worse, later in the article they talk about how the "gun enthusiast" yells racist and anti-semitic words before shooting his gun. Clearly not worth mentioning in the beginning, that the group is racist.
Show threadMathaetaesApr 13, 2023

@sophieschmieg @queenofnewyork @mekkaokereke At this point, any time you have 'gun enthusiast' and 'gamer' in the same place, you can pretty much count on 'racist', 'sexist', and 'fascist' being there as well.

The irony is that if you don't pay for the article, you never get to the paragraphs about racism... you just get the charismatic introduction.

Show threadHalJor 
@mathaetaes @sophieschmieg @queenofnewyork @mekkaokereke That isn't "irony". It's intentional.
Apr 13, 2023 at 8:22pmWeb