It's amazing what people believe on Facebook

[meegbear]

The picture on the left is making the rounds and people are freaking out about it. The one on the right is the real photo (which I found doing a quick google search).

You'd think people could see and realize the first one is a bad photoshop, but you'd be mistaken. I guess believe what they want to believe.

[abelenkpe]

1. K&R

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. some people believed it because it suited them to believe it.

its easier to think that black people are responsible for their own oppression rather than admit to the role the rest of us play in it.

[left_of_center]

3. yep saw this posted by a friend...

Yes, the "logic" that (suspected) shoplifters should be shot down in the street (especially if they are black) - this is all they can glean from the situation. Amazing indeed.

[lolly]

31. Actually, I think it was worse

The FBF whose posting I saw seemed to think that "those people" expect to be able to rob stores with impunity.

When I posted the un-retouched photo in her comment section, she just noted that that was "even better" with eye-rollers.

?????

[left_of_center]

37. oh yes...

there are layers of stupidity and assumptions behind such a post....

[roguevalley]

36. lauthan should have been shot given this logic instead of a gop

Job. I think that was her name, the tool who slandered the Obama kids. She left home to commit crimes too.

[lpbk2713]

4. Some people are driven by hate and ignorance.

That would be the only explanation why some idiot would go to
the trouble it would require to make that kind of a Photoshop.
Probably had Limbaugh or Faux playing in the background while
they were working on it.

[olddots]

5. alot of fools in America thought Forest Gump was a documentary

Sickening how a scumbag with no skills and a computer can destroy civilization one shot at a time .

[HubertHeaver]

30. It was a documentary...

Of GW Bush's life. (With poetic license. GW didn't actually go to RVN.)





for the impaired...

[AtheistCrusader]

32. Not a chance.

Forest Gump ('s character) was a decent human being.

[HubertHeaver]

42. Yes, the Forrest character did tend toward human decency.

That GW fellow, more toward human depravity.

[phantom power]

6. confirmation bias

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. I certainly wouldn't realise that.

The script looks a pretty good match, although having been told that it's a photoshop the fact that it gets narrower is suspicious.

What gives away that it's a photoshop?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Besides the fact that it's nonsensical?

Well, at least to normal people it's nonsensical.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. ...you think that the fact that the slogan on it is dumb is evidence it's photshopped?

If so, go and google "protest sign".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Not that dumb. nt

[RoccoR5955]

21. I know a bad photoshop job when I see it

And that one is one.
You can see in the last two lines of text, it is not completely whited out. There is a pattern on the lower right side of the sign that repeats. The R, S, and T are not consistent with the other R, S, and T in the upper part of the sign.
When you look at a lot of this stuff, it's not that hard to peg a bad one.

[AtheistCrusader]

34. Not accurate.

The 'R' in the bottom is copied/pasted from the 'R' in "HER", the 'S' in the bottom is copied/pasted from the 'S' in "SHOULD" (Used in both "ROBS" and "STORE&quot , and the 'T' in the bottom is copied/pasted from the 'T' in "TIME".

Also, the graininess of the photo is a great giveaway.

[MoonchildCA]

38. Exactly what I noticed.

Two handwritten letters are never identical...

[Iggo]

12. The message on the sign on the left is what gives it away.

[LanternWaste]

13. A sentiment convenient to ideologues of hate yet rare to the common man...

"What gives away that it's a photoshop?"

A sentiment convenient to ideologues of hate yet rare to the common man...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. In a nation of 350,000,000 people?

Also, I think your statement is wishful thinking.

[upaloopa]

17. Most of the letters are copies of letters above them

[upaloopa]

18. The letters are copied from letters above them

[Chiyo-chichi]

20. ...

The smeary blobs in the white space on both sides of “robs a store” are artifacts from the original phrase being erased... by an amateur who didn't know what he was doing.

Yeah, the letters match the handwriting elsewhere in the sign… because apart from the “B” they are pulled from elsewhere in the sign. The “R” is from the word “her.” Exact match. The “O” is from “should.” Exact match.

And, yes…. It is nonsensical.

[JHB]

23. Ok, on the technical level (leaving aside the content)...

Compare the "S"s in "ROBS" and "STORE" to the "S" in "SHOULD", vs compared to other "S"s on the poster.

Likewise, compare the "R"s in "ROBS" and "STORE" to the one in "HER", vs. compared to other "R"s on the poster.

The actual shape of the letters varies in the natural (original) writing, but is identical to particular letters in the altered section.

They've been obviously copied and pasted, and everything else shows the same obvious signs, with very little "adjustment".

[Donald Ian Rankin]

24. Aha, thank you.

Yes, when I look closely, I can see that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. It's a two step process.

First, you look at the content of the sign. If it sounds outrageously crazy, then you go to step two, and look for manipulations. Look to see if it appears certain letters are written exactly the same. Look to the spacing and the positioning of the words.

Here, it's pretty obvious given that the last two lines of text in the manipulated sign are far narrower than the rest of the lines, for no particular reason.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

26. Most outrageously crazy signs are just written by outrageously crazy people.

It's easier to write a slogan onto a sign than to photoshop it.

What does, arguably, make this one suspicious is that it's a slogan more likely to have been written by a white man, on a sign being held up by a black one. But there are 350,000,000 people in the USA, including several million black right-wingers.

[Pacifist Patriot]

41. For me, I pretty quickly came to the conclusion it was a PS job this way...

1. The slogan is racist tripe bringing it's legitimacy into question, so that made me look closely at the words that made it such.
2. A sign maker would likely remain consistent with margins. There seems to be no particular reason why the writer would suddenly leave margin space on the bottom two lines rather than fit all of the words onto one line.
3. So where did the writing for those lines come from? Many of the letters are direct copy and paste of the same letter as it appears previously on the sign. People have consistent handwriting in general, but not that technically consistent within a single document.

It's just a matter of having a "huh?" moment and refocusing attention to details. Some people do that inately, some people have to train themselves, some people see it when pointed out to them, and some just never develop that ability....i.e. willful ignorance because it fits their frame.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. 'memba this?

[m-lekktor]

15. ack! i never saw that one. nt

[marym625]

35. wish I could rec this n/t

[RiverLover]

39. This makes my heart sink. ~nt

[appalachiablue]

11. horrible

[upaloopa]

16. Some letters are copied but the B is not

[JHB]

40. The "B" is an alteration of a copied letter. Compare it to the "R" in "HER"...

They just replaced the "slated leg" with a copy of the loop.

[Johonny]

22. People buy Deepak Chopra books and list Ben Carson as their top choice for president in 2016

so it's hard to be amazed that there are suckers in this world buying the dumb ideas that they want to hear. If it didn't work then Rupert Murdoch would just another fish wrap peddler in Australia.

[Kelvin Mace]

27. So many many suckers

too much ethical constraint.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

28. People see what they want to see...

[alp227]

29. But but but..."it could've happened"/"FIFY" say the suckers nt

[hifiguy]

33. The photoshopping is so obvious Helen Keller could see it.

I now wonder whether national reserves of gullibility exceed those of stupidity or if it's the other way around.