Let's say you're at your local high school football game. A bunch of kids no one has ever seen and no one knows show up wearing the home team jersey and school merch. (Thread)

This group of strangers, dressed in your school colors, chanting the name of your mascot, start vandalising property. They flip trash cans, start fires, spray graffiti, and destroy school property.

Students, families, and teachers find themselves clashing with the imposters, wanting them to stop the destruction and distraction from the football game.

People start recording on their phones, a local news van shows up. The videos show aggressive, destructive "students" shouting the name of the school & mascot while they commit acts of vandalism and violence.

Now the media has picked up the story. 'local students viciously destroy their school' ... And look, they have video! All those kids in school jerseys and jackets, shouting the name of the mascot while they cloak the school in chaos and violence.

We saw it with our own eyes! Heard it with our own ears! Those kids wanted to burn their own school to the ground!!

The point of this story? It doesn't matter how many people believe a false narrative. It doesn't make it any more true. It just damages those hurt by the lie.

Use critical thinking, question everything, and don't put your eggs in a basket that you didn't weave yourself.