SarahJul 23, 2023

A day or two ago there was a woman on Twitter who apparently wants to sell a biopic about a woman who fought for the victims of the atomic bomb tests in New Mexico. One problem: almost everything she said in the thread is made up. It got over 12 million views.

I understand being upset other stories haven’t been told, especially in regards to harms done to one’s people. But #Oppenheimer doesn’t seem to idealize its subject and one can advocate for other stories without lying. 1/

Show threadSarahJul 23, 2023

She said the woman sued on behalf of the locals who died due to the tests and won. I could find no record of such lawsuit.

Another claim was this woman was appointed to the New Mexico Human Rights Commission by then-governor Richardson. No proof of that either. Not even on the subject’s own self-authored bio https://fuerzasunidasnm.com/northwest-ruralloyda-martinez/

She *was* one of the named plaintiffs in a class-action discrimination lawsuit against Los Alamos National Laboratory. At least that part was true. The rest… 2/

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Show threadGreg StolzeJul 25, 2023
@SarahOestreich "the woman I sued"? From context... is that a typo?
Show threadSarahJul 25, 2023
@GregStolze ah yup. Should have been the woman sued, no I. Will edit now. Was typing fast on my phone, glad there is an edit button. Thanks!
Show threadGreg StolzeJul 25, 2023
@SarahOestreich I'm warming up to the edit button myself.
Show threadSarahJul 25, 2023
@GregStolze yeah I do enjoy having it. But looking back on the thread, I probably would have organized my thoughts a bit better and worded a few things a bit differently if I had written it out beforehand and not just posting while in my yard. I might have been more careful about calling certain things lies and would have instead said I couldn’t substantiate certain claims. Calling things lies or falsehoods might come off as attributing motivation and I shouldn’t have done that.
Show threadGreg StolzeJul 25, 2023
@SarahOestreich Eh. It's social media. There is -- I think -- an implicit understanding that people shoot from the hip. You lose some forms of accuracy and clarity in exchange for speed and, often, a rawer honesty.
Show threadSarah
@GregStolze true, but if I’m making a thread criticizing someone else for their thread, I should probably try to be more cautious when authoring my own! But such is life. Might need to use the old notes app next time I want to do a deep dive on something so I can organize my thoughts a bit better.
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