Context: from an article explaining that this woman — who objected to a poem read at Biden’s inauguration being available in the school library - also “accidentally” posted stuff about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
@Popehat
The Florida mom with ties to the #ProudBoys who got books banned stated that she has not read the entirety of the books and poems she has asked to remove from the school library.
“I want to apologize to the Jewish community,” Salinas told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday. She apologized for a Facebook post she shared offering a summary of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious antisemitic forgery written more than a century ago in Russia.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-744175
@jbrewer_jera @GreenFire @Popehat I was just thinking, what's an acceptable ironic reposting of that rot?
It's pretty much limited to critical and corrective only... "You did this??? This is bad! You should feel bad for doing this. Boo on you!"
I am not familiar with the law of goats, no.
"I want to apologize to the Jewish community. I didn't mean to post the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I just wanted to tell people that I wish you all hurry up and die so Christians can have their apocalypse... oh wait, is that offensive, too? I'm sorry, I'm not a thinker. I'm not a brain person. I'm just a mom involved in my children's education."
@Popehat This kind of thing could happen to anyone*.
*sufficiently obsessed with a century-old antiemetic conspiracy theory
@Popehat Her saying that she didn’t read the Elders of Zion and only reacted to the word communism is an honest admission of how rightwingers work these days.
They can’t understand context but look for key trigger words to make assumptions about what they’re reading. That’s why you can routinely debunk them using their own sources because they project their beliefs onto the source material. And if they’re told a source says something they won’t even check the original but imagine they read it.
@staidwinnow I think that depends on how good someone is at debunking. Most people just aren’t very good at it especially if they make the mistake of including insults that people use to deflect from their mistakes, but I’ve found it to be fairly effective.
People will rarely admit they’re wrong in the heat of a debate. The main objective is to get them to doubt their sources and to really think about what they’re saying instead of repeating talking points.
How good has the debunking been on Trump's 30,000+ lies and misleading falsehoods while he was in office?
Forget that, how good has been the debunking of "The 2020 election was stolen"?
I'd say excellent.
Yet, here we are still addressing the "controversy."
When one side refuses to acknowledge the facts, debunking is not going to convince them.
There are no referees most of the time anyway.
@staidwinnow
First off, you’re describing a minority of Americans who gets outsized importance because they’re loud.
And yeah, most people aren’t good at debunking, especially not anyone in the corporate media. They consider fact checking to only be done in specific segments, not all the time.
And more importantly, the people who believe these things don’t listen to them anyway. But I’ve seen it work personally because I’m good at engaging with people. You can’t win if you don’t try.
@biobrain @Popehat A child's bare bottom is shown in an illustration in a story about getting ready for bedtime.
The picture is part of a series of illustrations: He's drinking a cup of hot chocolate, brushing his teeth, and being read a bedtime story as he's tucked under covers.
"Pornography!" the pearl-clutchers yell.
The child's bare bottom is only shown as his mom is drying him off after giving him a bath.
Context matters.
"Please look away from my anti-semitism posts, I am only talking about my raging racism today"
@Popehat Seeking to have Amanda Gorman's brilliant poem banned from school libraries or any other library perfectly describes petty-minded racist antisocial anti-Americanism.
America deserves better than that.
#Poetry #Humanity #Equality #Community #Freedom #AmandaGorman #AmericaMoves #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether
I’m confused how censoring the actual books is even on these people’s radar. You’d think they’d begin with the world they know: trying to censor SparkNotes.
Only if it comes with funding for hundreds of thousands of marginalized people to evacuate, resettle, and support themselves + their families while they find work, maintaining continuity of medical care along the way.
People can't just not be where they are.
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