Am I missing something here?
The headline says "Armed Agents in Texas School District Arrest Concerned Parents in Their Own Homes"
So I click and read the story. There is no claim or indication in the story itself that the people were "arrested in their homes" at all.
"In August, while “produc[ing] evidence that the board had covered up an alleged assault by the superintendent, Hafedh Azaiez, against a mistress,” Story, a minister, was cut off midsentence as Azaiez ordered armed officers to remove him from the premises, according to Chronicles Magazine."
"At issue in the next meeting was the district’s mask mandate. For this, Clark, a retired Army captain, and other parents sought to speak, but instead, the school board “locked the majority of parents out of the room, preventing them from speaking.” According to Rufo, while the parents were asking the school board to open the room for public comment on a major policy item, “school board president Amy Weir directed officers to remove Clark from school property."
For one thing, they were not "arrested." They were removed from the meeting by armed officers. That is not the same as being arrested. I know because I've been both removed and arrested, and they are two different things. "Arrested" means you go to jail and are charged with a crime. "Removed" means that you are removed. To be clear, I AM NOT OK WITH THOSE GUYS BEING REMOVED FOR SPEAKING THEIR MINDS.
But being wrongfully removed for simply speaking out is not the same thing as "being arrested in their homes", which is what the headline claims.
My problem with this is that there was no need to embellish the truth. All it does it hurt the cause when the truth is embellished. For the fact that they were removed from the meetings for speaking truth is enough to rightfully criticize..so why the need to make a false headline to discredit our side of the argument?
To anyone in here who wants to call me a "shill" for pointing this out, fuck you. Eat a bag of dicks.
The fact is that this type of shit is not helpful. I would go so far as to say that the assholes making the fake headlines are the shills, if anyone is.
If I send this link to a normie, do you know what kind of response I will get from them, and rightfully so?
Is our goal to coalesce here and change no one else's mind? Just all "get mad together" in a group, bitch and complain amongst ourselves, and that's it?
This sort of shit is NOT how you convert someone.
I'll be honest. I couldn't pass this on to any normie and them expect for them to take me seriously... because they will immediately point out the very thing I have just pointed out, and then summarily dismiss me because I have then lost all credibility with them.
That's not helpful.
We HAVE to be better than this. That is, if we want to actually convince anyone.
If you send this sort of shit to a normie and they actually read it, the first thing they will do is call you out because of the false headline. They will summarily discredit the story and you. They will be so focused on the fact that the headline was embellished that they will ignore the crux of the issue, which is the fact that armed officers are removing people for saying things that the school board doesn't like...which in itself, it bad enough and worthy of criticism.
This is self-defeating shit and I'm calling it out.
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