I'm not sure why this is one of the things on my short list of those that set me off.
Email forwards.
And I’m not talking “It’s National Girlfriend Day” where I’m declared so-and-so’s top girlfriends and send it back to the sender too so we can all feel validated and have a lot of friends-who-forward-us-shit, or the “I’m packing my bags and moving to Utah (or wherever)” which includes a calendar of scantily clad hotties sprawled across the Utah landscape.
No, I’m talking about the ignorant hate-spewing emails about politics and family values that are full of “facts” that hold up like water in a sieve. Emails that are prejudice and ethnocentric that the sender thinks are moral and religiously righteous. My political party is better than your political party because of “this”. Your President/Senator/ whomever is a douche because “this” happened 15 years ago. Hatemongering lightly veiled by “patriotism”. Even the stupid ones that may seem like no big deal, but are so incorrect that I can’t believe somebody would not pay attention to what they are forwarding on to their WHOLE FUCKING ADDRESS BOOK.
The latest one I received asked “Do you remember 1987…Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information…” Since I did not know about the subject is went on about about, I looked it up. Yeah, that’s right- *research*, bitches. With the Internet it literally takes about 5 seconds. Could it be that this “information” may have been forgotten because IT’S NOT FUCKING TRUE?? Yeah, possibly.
So what did I do? I replied “all” and supplied my link to prove the whole thing was misconstrued BS. I was kind in my few words and simply stated “”Forgotten-no, inaccurate-yes.”
I’m a little bit of a bitch. I am aware of this though, and know I should be more tolerant of people I find ignorant. It's not necessarily the ignorance, it's the people who are perpetuating ignorance. Ugh....yeah, yeah, working on it...
You can find a link to the forwarded email in question HERE.
4 comments:
There needs to be a no propaganda list such as the no-call list. Unfortunately, the American media has decided to treat the public like they are stupid and the public has responded in kind. Political propganda that spreads lies and mis-represents facts has been around for thousands of years. Good job on sending the real "facts" behind that email even though I doubt half the people even read them. People need to learn not to believe everything they read, especially on the internet.
J.W.
Funny you posted this article today - this morning I was complaining about the same thing. I don't understand how people can receive an email like that, and not bother to spend FIVE MINUTES researching it. When I saw what the original email was, before even reading Snopes' analysis, my first thoughts were "No one would have called Bin Laden a terrorist in 1987.... he was our ally..." People can be so friggin stupid. Ugh, so disgusted. . . now I think Imma write a blog on the same thing. But longer. Because I type alot. hah.
Oh and also, screw being "tolerant" of ignorant people. I'm a bitch about it too, and there's no reason to be sweet and let dumb people perpetuate their retardedness without anyone calling them out on it. Stupid people need to be sterilized.
Here's a response I got back: "Thanks for forwarding this "Remember" and yes, I do remember quite well."
Um...I didn't forward it to you. Read your emails again.
*head/desk*
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