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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
In many of these videos that appear to be generated by the artificial intelligence app Sora, people with SNAP benefits are being demonized as people defrauding the government.
Mostly Black women are seen loudly arguing with retail employees over declining payments on electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards. Some are seen stealing from grocery stores.
In others, AI-generated Black women boast about being “set” because of the public assistance they receive due to their children with multiple fathers.
That’s the appeal of racist online videos that blur the lines between fact and fiction to confirm people’s worst beliefs about people receiving public assistance.
But viral videos of AI-generated SNAP stereotypes are a growing kind of misinformation that adds to this confusion. The “welfare queen” stereotype of poor people gaming the welfare system to become wealthy originated in the 1970s and 1980s, but it’s alive and well online today –– and having wide-ranging effects on us all.
Here are the facts despite what these AI videos want you to think: According to the Pew Research Center, the majority of SNAP recipients are not Black, as these viral videos portray, but are actually white.
The reason this myth of “welfare queens” still persists today is because the idea of a Black woman “getting all this government aid that she does not need and then buying luxury items” is “a perfect storm for class resentment,” he said.
“If you hear a story that feeds that lingering, sometimes subconscious, sometimes very-conscious racial animosity, you’re going to latch on to it, and you’re going to share it, and you’re going to say, ‘Here’s proof. See, I knew it,’” Mould said.
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Mostly Black women are seen loudly arguing with retail employees over declining payments on electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards. Some are seen stealing from grocery stores.
In others, AI-generated Black women boast about being “set” because of the public assistance they receive due to their children with multiple fathers.
That’s the appeal of racist online videos that blur the lines between fact and fiction to confirm people’s worst beliefs about people receiving public assistance.
But viral videos of AI-generated SNAP stereotypes are a growing kind of misinformation that adds to this confusion. The “welfare queen” stereotype of poor people gaming the welfare system to become wealthy originated in the 1970s and 1980s, but it’s alive and well online today –– and having wide-ranging effects on us all.
Here are the facts despite what these AI videos want you to think: According to the Pew Research Center, the majority of SNAP recipients are not Black, as these viral videos portray, but are actually white.
The reason this myth of “welfare queens” still persists today is because the idea of a Black woman “getting all this government aid that she does not need and then buying luxury items” is “a perfect storm for class resentment,” he said.
“If you hear a story that feeds that lingering, sometimes subconscious, sometimes very-conscious racial animosity, you’re going to latch on to it, and you’re going to share it, and you’re going to say, ‘Here’s proof. See, I knew it,’” Mould said.
This Racist SNAP Video Is Everywhere Online — And Everyone Should Be Alarmed
Here are the facts, despite what these outrageous videos want you to believe.
