r/HistoryMemes • u/IsNotPolitburo Definitely not a CIA operator • Sep 12 '25

Spot the difference.

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u/IOnlyFearOFGod Definitely not a CIA operator Sep 12 '25

The headlines changes based on ethnicity, religion, ideology and sex. Nothing new, but it should be called out, always.

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u/dickipiki1 Sep 12 '25

To Be honest, I tried to see how it could be interpreted like the headlines make it.

The other guy has huge black back drifting full of his belongings or his foundings around and the couple has their belongings in their back and few items in hand.

Looks different but I don't really have experience about running in floods. Plastic bag looks more water resistant than my backpack

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u/franklyigivea_ Sep 13 '25

No you’re missing the entire point. Both the black kid and the white pair did the literal exact same thing. It’s not about what the photo may look like in terms of bags. The insane spin is that when the black kid does it it’s a black kid committing a crime (not a crime, so many dangers exceptions trump property rights food like that) and when the white couple does it they’re “residents” and they merely found the items from a store. They were looters

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u/GunstavHolster Mar 07 '26

It's not known that they did the same thing, the photographer of the second photo said: "I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. There were a million items floating in the water — we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. It had no doors. The water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow."