• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    So pull the thread. She heads if from a friend, let’s go ask the friend… and so forth. Someone unwilling to name their source is the origin. Let’s find patient 0.

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      2 months ago

      A different outlet did. The racist Lee who posted the cat thread said it was from “my neighbors daughters friend.”

      A fact check org interviewed the neighbor, and she said Lee was mistaken, and it was actually “a friends acquaintance.” So yeah, right off it became way more ambiguous.

      The other issue though is that in her racist tirade, Lee didn’t just mention a cat. She also said geese/ducks had gone missing from the parks, and said she confirmed that with park rangers and police. She of course had not.

      Most likely these two idiots got together, her and her neighbor, and each one ginned up part of the story, maybe literally. Then Lee posted it and “inadvertently” created a dangerously racist shitshow for her city and nation.