It's not surprising that supporters on one side of the political spectrum resort to outright lies to defraud voters and the public. It's part of the standard toolbox of facism.
If you don't accept that both sides do it you're deluding yourself. There is no good or bad side of our current political spectrumm. Both sides have an astounding number of warts.
> “red-pilling some normies” — internet slang for a propaganda technique in which distorted, fabricated, or skewed information is used to further a self-determined “truth.”
True to form, Snopes imparts to its readers an inaccurate and misleading understanding of something.
"Red-pilling some normies" means "showing people the nature of reality as it truly is". It comes from the movie "The Matrix" where Neo is given the option to take a blue pill and stay in simulated reality or a red pill which will cause the machines to unplug him from the simulation and allow the members of Zion to come and rescue him in the real world.
Here Snopes is being lampooned for a tactic in which Snopes assigns some claim a "Mostly False" label (which is what everyone processes and then moves on from) but then when you read the content of their article it tends to be some trivial technicality or some subjective opinion upon which they assign the label where the actual substance of the claim is substantially true.
Satire and pointed mockery is among the most effective means of taking down a tyrannical structure. It breaks through people's unconscious responses which, for good reason, is usually to defer to some authority and gets them to engage consciously with some idea which may challenge the legitimacy of that authority. Mockery breaks down the sense of authority itself.
This. Snopes does not need a smear campaign as they already have very little credibility due to it's blatant political bias and subjective takes on what they think is "objectively false".
For example, by rating Trump's claim that Biden used the word "superpredators" to refer to black people in relation to the extremely racist 1994 Crime Bill as "mostly false" because he said "predators", not "superpredators". [1]
The 1994 Crime Bill is racist, and so is everyone who supported it. There's no nuance here. It's just Snopes covering up for one side, again.
If you can't admit racism on your side, who will believe a word you say when you call others racist?
> "mostly false" because he said "predators", not "superpredators"
Also because he wasn't referring to Black people but rather to young people. You have to read your own link better.
From Snopes:
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What's True
While speaking in the Senate in 1993 in favor of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, Biden referred to young people who have become criminals as "predators."
What's False
Biden did not use the term "super-predator," nor did he specifically refer to Black people. It was Hillary Clinton who, while speaking about the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act a few years later, referred to young gang members as "super-predators." "
Sorry, no, he was clearly referring to black people using racist rhetoric.
He said they were born out of wedlock, had no parents and hadn't been socialized -- all racist tropes. [1]
The bill resulted in the incarceration of millions of additional black people, not to mention the deaths while in jail or from the expansion of the death penalty.
He has a long history of racism against black people in particular. [2]
Just look what he said about Obama -- "You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man" [3]
Red pilling is a term allegedly coopted by the alt right, and these days the definition is closer to the snopes definition than a matrix reference, which is unfortunate.
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 36.9 ms ] threadTrue to form, Snopes imparts to its readers an inaccurate and misleading understanding of something.
"Red-pilling some normies" means "showing people the nature of reality as it truly is". It comes from the movie "The Matrix" where Neo is given the option to take a blue pill and stay in simulated reality or a red pill which will cause the machines to unplug him from the simulation and allow the members of Zion to come and rescue him in the real world.
Here Snopes is being lampooned for a tactic in which Snopes assigns some claim a "Mostly False" label (which is what everyone processes and then moves on from) but then when you read the content of their article it tends to be some trivial technicality or some subjective opinion upon which they assign the label where the actual substance of the claim is substantially true.
Satire and pointed mockery is among the most effective means of taking down a tyrannical structure. It breaks through people's unconscious responses which, for good reason, is usually to defer to some authority and gets them to engage consciously with some idea which may challenge the legitimacy of that authority. Mockery breaks down the sense of authority itself.
The 1994 Crime Bill is racist, and so is everyone who supported it. There's no nuance here. It's just Snopes covering up for one side, again.
If you can't admit racism on your side, who will believe a word you say when you call others racist?
[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/black-americans-super-pred...
Also because he wasn't referring to Black people but rather to young people. You have to read your own link better.
From Snopes: " What's True
While speaking in the Senate in 1993 in favor of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, Biden referred to young people who have become criminals as "predators."
What's False
Biden did not use the term "super-predator," nor did he specifically refer to Black people. It was Hillary Clinton who, while speaking about the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act a few years later, referred to young gang members as "super-predators." "
He said they were born out of wedlock, had no parents and hadn't been socialized -- all racist tropes. [1]
The bill resulted in the incarceration of millions of additional black people, not to mention the deaths while in jail or from the expansion of the death penalty.
He has a long history of racism against black people in particular. [2]
Just look what he said about Obama -- "You got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man" [3]
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/biden-1993-speec...
[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/joe-biden-latino-af...
[3] https://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...
Did hillary smash 2 of her cell phones with a hammer?
Snopes: Technically her subordinates smashed them not her.