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fandomsandfeminism:
Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.
I had a whole bunch of these stupid stories in one of my english language textbooks. I immediately got online and printed out fact checks off all the accounts in the book.
When teaching the lesson, I had the students read the textbook and said ‘now, which of these stories do you think is rubbish?’ and had them discuss and explain which ones weren’t true. Then I handed out the fact-check printouts and they went ‘oh, they were all rubbish.’
My favorite was the guy who the book claimed sued because he put a ladder in a pile of manure and slipped, but was actually suing because the ladder broke under his 200lbs of weight, when it was claiming to support 1000lbs.
fandomsandfeminism:
Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.
I had a whole bunch of these stupid stories in one of my english language textbooks. I immediately got online and printed out fact checks off all the accounts in the book.
When teaching the lesson, I had the students read the textbook and said ‘now, which of these stories do you think is rubbish?’ and had them discuss and explain which ones weren’t true. Then I handed out the fact-check printouts and they went ‘oh, they were all rubbish.’
My favorite was the guy who the book claimed sued because he put a ladder in a pile of manure and slipped, but was actually suing because the ladder broke under his 200lbs of weight, when it was claiming to support 1000lbs.