Unironically realizing that people that watched New Jack City and the Wire, are less susceptible to the disinfo of "An apartment complex in Aurora Colorado has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and the police are powerless to stop them, so we ne...
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Unironically realizing that people that watched New Jack City and the Wire, are less susceptible to the disinfo of "An apartment complex in Aurora Colorado has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and the police are powerless to stop them, so we need the Hells Angels to ride in and save America!"
Completely different abilities to discern reality.
It's like believing that BLM burned entire US cities with populations of millions, to the ground. Like, Portland is gone? Really? The whole thing?
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Mathaetaesreplied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
@mekkaokereke wait, what?? Is this a real thing people believe, or is this just absurd hyperbole set to illustrate the ridiculousness of the white right’s propaganda in general?
I don’t know if I should be proud that my timeline curation doesn’t even let these rumors reach me, or ashamed that my social media bubble is too small to even pick up people talking about this.
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@mathaetaes
Just this morning I saw someone on another platform who was going to Manhattan to see a Broadway show, but understood that it was "too dangerous" to walk from Penn Station (in the west 30s) to the Theater District (in the west 50s) and asking for advice ("Should I drive and park closer to the theater?"). The thread was full of New Yorkers politely disagreeing with the "too dangerous" idea, but not asking if they'd received it via Faux News, which was my suspicion.
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@mathaetaes @mekkaokereke white Connecticut suburbia is convinced that Escape From New York was a documentary. I had *many* very frustrating conversations about that with family and acquaintances when I was working in Manhattan.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Dan Sugalski last edited by
@wordshaper @mathaetaes @mekkaokereke
Same is true of the Silicon Valley's impressions of San Francisco.
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@flashesofpanic @mathaetaes @mekkaokereke The “r/asknyc" reddit gets, on average, 2-3 posts a day from terrified tourists asking if some neighborhood in NYC is safe to walk though. The regulars there try to be patient and explain that the answer is literally always yes but my god it gets tiring to have your city be on the end of a fearmongering campaign.
It's not just Fox News either — there's a whole fucking ecosystem of youtube/tiktok grifters who make their living scaring people about NYC.
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@memory @flashesofpanic @mathaetaes @mekkaokereke
My personal formative experience was when I went travelling alone after high school, having never left my country before.
My first stop was Cairo Egypt and I was told by everyone to not go around alone or at night (pretty sure none of them had been BTW).
Fortunately, there were money issues at the hotel, forcing to go find a bank, alone, straight away. By the end of the week I was hanging out anytime and waving to locals I knew.
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@memory @flashesofpanic @mathaetaes @mekkaokereke
On top of that I encountered one the most touching examples of charity I'd personally every seen. A KFC (I was hungry and fearful) run so that all the staff could be disabled or mentally impaired. The menus were designed for clarity and pointing, sign language was encouraged and some supervisors around made sure everything worked well.
They were taking better care of each other than peeps back home, and sure as hell made me feel safe/welcome