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Given that the OOP obviously isn't trying to paint them in a sympathetic light or anything (last sentence makes that crystal clear), why on Earth did they leave out the armed threats, the by-far-most-damning aspect of what those two did?
Good job by the community note.
It’s exactly as you think
white supremacists don’t read past the headline
So you can easily drum up false outrage by presenting the alternate universe these people live in where any ol’ white person might receive 15-20 year prison sentences for just driving past the wrong upset black person
This is the world as presented by almost the entire media news and tech industries who are right wing aligned or actually just owned by individual right wing men outright.
I don't think "Hate has consequences" is a sentence someone trying to create clickbait to rile up racists would add to the end of this. I really don't get the impression they were deliberately trying to trivialize or minimize the crimes.
I’m skeptical the person posting is even a person.
But if they are they’ve likely copied the headline directly because it’s unlikely they typed it out themselves in that manner. It reads exactly like a headline not what someone says themselves upon reposting such an article. They may have added the hate has consequences themselves.
I don’t want to come off as unreasonable but we are being subjected to the most significant domestic and international propaganda efforts ever seen in human history.
There is really no other plausible explanation for leaving the fact they were armed out of the headline other than minimizing the perceived offense to make it seem like an unreasonable punishment.
Because it's still useful to leave that out as it makes the story more of an outrage piece.