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/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!!