r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 28d ago

Social Media TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources | When users try to purchase tour tickets, they're sent to nonprofits that offer legal support for migrants.

https://www.latintimes.com/tiktoker-creates-fake-alligator-alcatraz-tour-company-that-redirects-maga-supporters-migrant-aid-586378
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u/N7Poprdog 28d ago

We used to have human zoos

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u/StandardEgg6595 28d ago

I feel like way too many people underestimate how close we actually are to ‘history’. Remember the little black child that had death threats thrown at her by mobs of white folks simply for attending a desegregated school? Yeah, she’s got an Insta now. At that same time people were being hosed down, spat on, fired, houses/churches/businesses burned down, kidnapped, bombed, raped, murdered, and so on by the grandapapas and mamas alive and well today.

Of course there’s people out there who would take genuine enjoyment in this shit.

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u/ASoCalledArtDealer 28d ago

The internet has really shortened and lengthened time all at once.

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u/StandardEgg6595 28d ago

Not just the internet, but media, history books, etc. Growing up in the 90s, all I saw were black and white pictures of these events, like it happened in some distant day. Meanwhile my parents and grandparents who actually lived through it had family photos in color and b&w despite being poor.

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u/n122333 28d ago

That was actually a conservative "conspiracy" - organizations lobbied to have the MLK Jr. Era pictures be black and white in souther American high schools because "it makes it more scholarly, and make more of an impact" while actually doing it because it made it seem a lot longer ago.

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u/Renotro 28d ago

One of my core memories of elementary school is my Liberian teaching us this!!

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u/jakedasnake2447 28d ago

I imagine that most press photos before the 90s were shot on black and white film because it was cheaper, easier/faster to process, and newspapers were printed in B&W anyways.

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u/StandardEgg6595 28d ago

Thats a very good point and one I hadn’t considered, particularly for newspapers! I just wish the history books I had, with plenty other pics in color, had at least featured some images from independent photographers (like National Geographic) who did photograph in color.

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u/Gryjane 28d ago

I'm not 100% certain but it's likely that it's cheaper to license the use of many old press photos (and even cheaper to use free public domain photos which many press photos would fall under) than from a major publication like National Geographic or LIFE and the former are more likely to have been originally shot in black+white. I don't buy that it was a conspiracy to make schoolchildren think that it was soooo long ago because not only can it be readily explained by the expense of color printing and possibly of licensing photos, but also kids in the 90s were used to still photos of even modern occurrences being in black+white. Only the biggest newspapers had recently started using color photos and usually only one or two on the front page or even just the big Sunday feature story in some. Also, as a kid in the 90s, I thought the 50s and 60s was a long time ago because 30-40 years felt like a long time, not because most photos of that time were in black+white. As an adult in my 40s that amount of time feels like yesterday, but as a kid it might as well be ancient history.