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Nichtcrawler-X posted...

How? People are perfectly capable of seeing when both sides are in the wrong.

But people in general are morons, and Internet outrage mongers generally only hold the last thing they remember in their brain at one time.

So the later "bad thing" displaces some of the outrage for the original "bad thing".

It's why so many companies these days rely on "Keep your head down and wait for the controversy to blow over" as their go-to response to any negative situation. Because they know someone else is going to screw up eventually, and when they do it'll pull most of the attention away from their screw up.

If you can stand your ground long enough and keep your mouth shut, you can get away with a lot more than you'd think.