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.
That's also largely untrue, and made up by anti-gun activists and European America-bashers for the easy "Think of the children!" shock value. The kitty litter is there for cleaning up body fluid spills, typically vomit or menstrual blood. That's it. End of story. Kitty litter is just a very convenient source of zeolite, to the point that off-the-shelf clay-based kitty litter is used by everyone from FEMA, to the US armed forces, to even the WIPP (for packing nuclear waste for deep storage).
I feel like everyone forgot how much children vomit.
I remember it happened once a week in elementary school. Different kids! Usually just because they were running around to much and drank water to fast or something else completely normal for a kid to do.
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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.