I just think you are probably reading too much into it. Old stuff get recirculated all the time and if OP was worried about “people finding out its old”, he could pick a more recent case. I know of one, and there sure are more.
PS: I wanted to get a source for that one case I remeber and found out the bloody Liabel & Slander case is till ongoing 6 years later. Might also be why we don’t hear as much about more recent stuff since it is still going through the courts.
Digging up an actual case feels a lot more honest and intellectually rigorous than a meme that purposely includes the inflammatory part but cuts out the part that would let you actually verify the info in the meme. Thank you for that. I’ve seen way too many memes like, eg, the one that circulates about the woman who was “thrown in prison for burning a pride flag so much for free speech” that leave out the fact that the pride flag in question belonged to someone else and was attached to the restaurant they own that this woman also burned down (https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/woman-caught-video-setting-fire-gay-pride-flag/story%3Fid=97336224)
I just think you are probably reading too much into it. Old stuff get recirculated all the time and if OP was worried about “people finding out its old”, he could pick a more recent case. I know of one, and there sure are more.
PS: I wanted to get a source for that one case I remeber and found out the bloody Liabel & Slander case is till ongoing 6 years later. Might also be why we don’t hear as much about more recent stuff since it is still going through the courts.
Digging up an actual case feels a lot more honest and intellectually rigorous than a meme that purposely includes the inflammatory part but cuts out the part that would let you actually verify the info in the meme. Thank you for that. I’ve seen way too many memes like, eg, the one that circulates about the woman who was “thrown in prison for burning a pride flag so much for free speech” that leave out the fact that the pride flag in question belonged to someone else and was attached to the restaurant they own that this woman also burned down (https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/woman-caught-video-setting-fire-gay-pride-flag/story%3Fid=97336224)