So I'm on this Fort Smith site on FB, which group members use to post questions, comments, and general news about the city. It's a cesspool of meanness and spite, so I usually don't read what's been posted there. I should really delete my membership to the page.
But then I would have missed this! On Wednesday of last week, where someone was asking why the Singaporean flag* was being flown at the air force base, someone said (as a joke) that it was because Fort Smith was going to be made a sanctuary city.
It was clearly a joke -- no one from Singapore is a refugee, for fuck's sake -- but by the next day someone had posted a question to the page, about whether Fort Smith was really going to become a sanctuary city.
And today people are stating, as a fact, that Fort Smith is a sanctuary city, and that's why we have so many homeless people and so much crime.
Misinformation becomes data becomes worldview. Welcome to your Red State experience.
*Here's why the flag was actually being flown
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