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[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

https://dublinpride.ie/our-story/

It's very clear that it's been edited when you see it on the website. They try to cover their asses by saying:

Note on image: This is a graphic that includes a couple of iconic images from different historical protests along with the obvious addition of a sign saying “Trans Rights Are Human Rights.”

Lets dispel with this fiction that Dublin Pride doesn't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Uhhhh that was their response to getting called out? Not just removing the picture entirely? Wow.

Yes, it's "obvious." But I don't think that's intentional. To my untrained eye, it looks like somebody unskilled made an honest attempt at making it look realistic.

But let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's suppose it was meant to look obvious. My first question is, "why do it?" I'm going to be extremely generous and assume once again for the sake of argument that they have a perfectly sound answer to that question. My next question: "Why oh why would you think that that would ever be perceived as a good look when your critics accuse you of trying to rewrite history???"

[–]Virginia_Plain 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Looking on the Twitter feed, there is one person making the excuse that "It's a meme, it's designed to be altered," like it's fucking Advice Dog or whatever.

[–]RippoffOfLoveSStraight | Overuses quotation marks 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's ridiculous. Aren't memes supposed to be funny or at the very least a tad amusing? I'm not laughing. Is misinformation a meme? Also my last question in my previous comment still applies. These fucking guys 🤦