My Problem with Social Media Videos














I have a huge problem with Social Media videos,
like the one that Erina Wehi posted, you just don't
get the full story.  You get a horrific allegation
against another party without the full story or
even proof of those allegations.

You then get people on  twitter and facebook, destorying
a person's life.  They get  abuse, they get death threats,
they get  their whole life judge by a 90  second video,
that may of been heavily edited.

I watched today's video, and while I firmly believe
this type of racism  and ugliness is firmly entrenced
in New Zealand's socity, I beleieve we aren't getting
the whole picture of the video posted today

I haven't link to the video, because I dont want it
to get more hits, a quick google search of Erina
Wehi and you will come to it.

In the video she sits calmly in her car,  and retells
an incident when she alleges this man cut her
off and screamed out all sort of repugnant racial
abuse.

She then tells the viewer, that she has followed the
guy home, and proceeds to get out of her car and
film him, the guy calls her a few names (nothing
like she alleges happened during the incident)
while she mocks him for the world to see.

The man has now come out and said it was her
that  originally abused him and then she started to follow
him.

My problem with her edited video is, she seems
too calm retelling the story in her car, she doesnt
seem like someone that has just been threaten.

And thus thats my problem with videos of this
nature, posted to social media,  like a  Doco,
you just get one side, maybe this guy did
what she alleges, maybe he didn't.

The internet, the media has decided though,
and this man's life is ruined because of it.

Disgusting.

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