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[Harmony]

The above video is a Australian news channel, but the report is about a school in Utah in the USA. But I just can't believe this is happening

[Jaak]

https://www.telegraphindia.com/feeds...ll/cid/2014947
"It's been 15 hours since the fire broke out. This smoke is not any common smoke, it is very poisonous. We are unable to keep our eyes open due to irritation and are breathing with difficulty," Ram Kumar from Gharoli village, close to the landfill, said.

[norman]

OMG, another DEW assignment ?

[Kryztian]

This story is a HOAX. They hoaxed not only SKY News by Utah senator Mike Leigh. The explanation below does not explain the group of young students talking about the furries, but from the camera angles, it looks like about 10 students and they were trying to make the protest look larger.

Posted by Matthew (here)
Thanks to Harmony for the correction!

Kids in Australia Utah protest against fellow students who identify as animals. Turns out the students who identify as animals act like animals. People who identify as animals, then dress up as them, call themselves furries. One furry representative "Strudel" said she was disappointed with some of her furry comrades for acting like a-holes and causing the problem. She's in the interview dressed like a cartoon dog. Welcome to the 21th century.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zampNYXrqkM

No evidence of 'furries' in Nebo School District despite allegations, social media firestorm
https://www.ksl.com/article/50985141...edia-firestorm

PAYSON — Allegations of students at Mt. Nebo Junior High School dressing up like animals and biting, barking and pouncing on fellow students created a social media firestorm on Wednesday.

As it turns out, these allegations were "completely unfounded," said Seth Sorensen, spokesman for the Nebo School District.

Last week, "students were not treating each other respectfully and things were occurring that they just did not feel were appropriate and conducive to education," Sorenson said.

A small group of students at the school were wearing headbands with animal ears, which led other students to throw food at them. Kelsey James, spokeswoman for the Utah State Board of Education, said that incident prompted the school to send a letter to students' families.

The letter, which was obtained by KSL.com on Thursday, reminded students of the district's dress code, which says "jewelry, accessories, tattoos, hair, facial hair and other elements of a student's appearance that draw undue attention, distract, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with the learning atmosphere at school or at school activities and events, or that create a health, safety, or welfare issue are prohibited."

After the administration had conversations with the students wearing the headbands — noting that they were a "little bit of a disruption" — the students stopped wearing them, Sorenson said.

The letter also addressed the food throwing targeted at the headband-wearing students, saying that a "written, verbal or a physical act that creates a hostile, threatening, humiliating, or abusive environment is not permitted."

"As that message went out, somehow, parts of that message were, we believe, misunderstood," Sorenson said. "Individuals took to social media to share their interpretations of the message, and it kind of turned into something wild and crazy."

He added that the school hasn't had any incidents of students wearing masks or animal costumes, nor have any students engaged in biting, licking or any other forms of animal-like behavior.

Still, the unfounded allegations of "furries" (people who dress and sometimes act like animals) spread like wildfire across social media, most prominently in conservative circles.

In a post Thursday on the social platform X, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said students "who behave like animals and bite classmates should be expelled" and administrators "who defend such behavior should be fired."

"There's really been no evidence that any of those behaviors ever occurred. The administration has had no reports from students that that happened," Sorenson said. "There's been a lot of things pushed out on social media that are inaccurate and a lot of information that is not factual and is based on hearsay and rumors."

The outrage that ensued over social media led to a group of students and parents staging a protest across the street from the school on Wednesday. Sorenson said that there were about 75 protesters, in total.

"They had signs that were expressing things like they wanted equal rights for everyone, and it was a very peaceful protest, and they behaved appropriately," Sorenson said. "It was not an issue, and in the meantime, our school continued as normal ... and today the situation is kind of gone."

State lawmaker and Utah gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman also chimed in on X, saying, "We The People, not the animals. Each of these children have more courage, conviction, and fortitude than all of our 'Republicans leaders' (RINOS) put together."

Both Lee and Lyman retweeted a post from Libs of TikTok, which the Washington Post says has amassed an audience of millions on X, largely by targeting LGBTQ+ people. In the video, a group of students speaking over each other complain that some students at the school wear masks and pounce on people.

[Kryztian]

Posted by Matthew (here)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zampNYXrqkM

More on the Mt. Nebo "Furries" fake debacle. It seems that there was a small group of children who were wearing animal headbands in the lunchroom (not masks and full body animal costumes) and that some other students began to call them names and throw food at them. The conflict escalated and resulte in the video that was outside the school. Details of how that happened are in this article: Fact check: Nebo School District responds to claims about student protest over ‘furries’.

This still does not explain "Strudel" (the person in the animal suit), who is probably NOT related to what happened in Utah, or Sky News' claim that there was a petition signed by 1800 students, and the claim that students were forced to eat insects in their English class.

If there is any affront to traditional values here, then the culprit is Sky News for abandoning such traditional journalistic values as:

• doing good research
  
  
• fact checking and verifying sources
  
  
• not allowing your ideology and belief systems to sway you into some unproven conclusions.

You can bet your sweet bippy that there will be a Snopes article on this detailing how the conservative media got there information wrong and generated anti-wokist sentiment based on fake information.

[Matthew]

Oh wow! That's a great hoax!

[norman]

Afghan immigrants in Paris are causing destruction without facing consequences from the government...

https://t.me/dailyrealtimenews/27198