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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
In case you weren't aware, "lemmings" isn't actually a great metaphor, since that story of lemmings jumping off a cliff comes from a nature documentary where Disney couldn't think of a good ending so they threw a bunch of animals off a cliff to be like "sometimes nature is weird, we aren't supposed to understand" as if this was profound https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/
Although, sometimes it ends up becoming a *great* metaphor because it points out how the person telling the "oh people are just gullible" story may be telling a story as flawed as the metaphor