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thismeintiel on 06 July 2017
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monocle_layton said:
TH3-D0S3R said:
Sorry if for the copy-paste job, but it's too important.

Buzzfeed of all companies EXPOSED CNN, saying that it wasn't actually HanA**holeSolo's Gif. The ratio aspect of the video has been confirmed to be impossible for the video to be from Reddit, so they just BLACKMAILED the wrong guy.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/how-a-random-gif-from-reddit-probably-ended-up-on-president?utm_term=.ovWm5jebM#.kqLY8Lz9x

I don't even know anymore.

So the user bragged about it when he wasn't even responsible and has been exposed?

 

And now BUZZFEED is actually showing honest journalism?

 

What the hell is going on???

I think the most interesting thing is that the guy's "racist" comments actually seem to come from a subreddit called "I'm going to go to hell for this,"  where people just post crude jokes/memes about sex, race, or whatever.  Granted, it's not everyone's cup of tea when it comes to humor, BUT it still means that there is a good chance he isn't actually racist.  He may just post stupid shit in that subreddit like many people do, so using that as a justification for what CNN did doesn't really hold up.

Granted, even if he was a racist, it still doesn't hold up.  Can't punish people for not believing a certain way.  As long as he's not out actually hurting/abusing people, there's little reason to attack him.  And CNN didn't even care about that stuff, or they would have been tracking down these types of people this whole time.  They just wanted to track down and attack the guy who made the gif.