Sigh. It's seemingly ever fcking day where a distorted, context-less RW clip goes super-viral, getting shared by both LWers & RWers alike. It's depressing as hell to see it happen over & over again. This site is just a magnet for dishonesty & it feels quite helpless to stop it.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1483151874224177157
The context of this clip, which is from 2020 (that's resurfaced as if it was said today) was basically a(n inartful) point about the reach of media today- 'people have cellphones to film things and those images get spread worldwide on social media'. 
He was very obviously not saying that George Floyd had more of a worldwide impact than MLK, as the bad faith RW bullshit wants you to believe. But like a few 100 people will see this context & the original has already been RTed like 10,000 times, so *chuckles* everything is cool!
The RW thrives off lying. If you see a sub-10 second clip of a comment put out by a partisan source, it's almost 100% certain that it's either hard edited or clipped of context. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. But people just want to be lied to.
They want to spread the outrage bate. They dont give a fuck whether it's accurate or not. The amount of ppl who stop & think, 'hmm this seemingly outrageous clip sounds a little too good to be true' is infinitesimal. They do not care- it confirms their biases. Thats good enough.
And here's more of the context in video form. But it doesn't matter. The damage is done.
https://twitter.com/HOWDEBODI/status/1483190691626893312
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