About an hour ago, I put up a post which contained this:
Stop Feeding the Rage Machine Every time you rage-share a headline without reading it, or dunk on someone for clout, you are feeding the same system you claim to hate. Don’t give your attention to people or platforms that reward outrage over insight.
Five minutes ago, I saw this through the #jumblr tag:
Look, I loathe Ilhan Omar and regard her as a chronically dishonest and hateful antisemite.
But this headline and article, until the second-to-last paragraph, frame her as refusing to condemn political violence and that's not what happened. Here's the second-to-last paragraph:
"I am appalled by the deadly shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum last night. Holding the victims, their families, and loved ones in my thoughts and prayers. Violence should have no place in our country,” she wrote.
It's fine if you think she took to long to come out with a statement. It's fine if you think she's insincere. It's fine to go after her for the shitty things she's actually said and done- but the headline is deliberately deceptive.
Lies, it turns out, are bad.
Even when they're lies about antisemitic assholes.
Let the antisemites use dishonesty. It isn't our weapon.
