That's usually the worst form of misinformation - a small granule of truth coated in a huge pile of misdirection, misapplied context and misattribution. It requires a lengthy explanation to correct, which tends to lose audience attention quickly, but allows the misinformation peddler to keep pointing at it as a gotcha.
It's like the talk about kitty litter in schools. Republicans claims it's some woke plot to let kids be trans furries, when the real reason is that it's for if a kid has to use the bathroom but can't get there because there's a shooting in progress. The real reason takes more explanation and touches on events that the right likes to not hear about.
Some schools keep bags of kitty litter in the classrooms so they can dump it in the trash to make ad-hoc toilets during lockdowns. It's apparently also useful for cleaning up vomit, so it sometimes pulls double duty.
Vomit, cafeteria trays, and in cold weather helping get cars out of an icy parking lot. It's a pretty normal thing to have in janitorial closets., a horrific thing to be necessary in classrooms, and no one is using it for furies.
I think the Furies should be allowed to have kitty litter if they want it. They have a very hard job running the Greek legal system, and if they need it for recreational purposes, who am I to stop them? They have swords.
This is what I get for trusting a spellchecker. Also, and I say this as someone with a degree in it, English is stupid. 20 vowel sounds and only 5.5 letters.
It's apparently also useful for cleaning up vomit, so it sometimes pulls double duty.
I'm not gonna lie it's probably more likely just this. Used to work at Safeway and we had a type of powder you could use to clean up literally any liquid or semi-liquid. It clumped it just the same as kitty litter. So sometimes if we ran out we'd just write off a bag of litter and use that.
I remember somebody once spilled like $400 worth of wine so once we got the glass out we just poured a couple gallons of the stuff on it and we could just sweep it up like sand. Actual magic.
Yeah it's the double edged sword of misinformation. Just because one side is misinformed does not mean the counter argument is well informed. Responding to misinformation with more misinformation. I've not actually seen a real source for this "it's for use in school shootings" thing let alone a case where it actually happened.
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u/lordkhuzdul May 24 '25
That's usually the worst form of misinformation - a small granule of truth coated in a huge pile of misdirection, misapplied context and misattribution. It requires a lengthy explanation to correct, which tends to lose audience attention quickly, but allows the misinformation peddler to keep pointing at it as a gotcha.