If you're not acquainted with it, there's a wonderful website called "Snopes.com" that is solely dedicated to proving of disproving the number of urban legends being shot around the internet. I'd like you to take a look at this:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
There are over 60 urban legends about President Obama being circulated--the overwhelming majority of which are false--some so shockingly stupid it's hard to believe anyone would believe them, much less pass them along. Not that I agree with everything President Obama is doing or has done, but this has gotten completely out of hand.
What I want to know is how can people be so desperate to hate someone that they would believe and SHARE malicious lies without ever bothering to check to see if they are true. I mean, I dislike Sarah Palin, but I have never forwarded any emails about her, and my opinion of her is my own personal business and has generally been formed by the things she has actually said. I don't feel the need to spread malicious lies about her, because she's really no threat to me. However, when I receive one of these emails about Obama, I look them up to see if there is any basis in fact--which there has never been on the ones I have been sent--and then promptly drop the sender from my soup night & Christmas card lists. People who wish to be that hateful and ignorant have NO place in my life. Period.
3 comments:
I love that website, and ejoy looking up some of the silly/malicious/outrageous rummors that people love spreading about our leaders.
I love Snopes. I tell everyone to use it especially with all the crap that is out there in the web. Pictures are the worst. It is so easy to photoshop a picture and have had to explain this to some of the "older" people in my family who didn't under stand how easy it is to change a picture
Love this post, Toni. Being English, that particular variety of 'hate' email doesn't land in my inbox often (or at all) - but other stuff does. Yay to you for taking a stand.
P.S. my word verification today is 'bracted'. that's a real word, isn't it?
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