Fabricated claims against Haitians in Springfield must be challenged

[Nevilledog]

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article292268215.html

No paywall link
https://archive.li/JWJfw

The outrageous accusations snowballing through social and mainstream media against Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are not just malicious, obvious fabrications. They are part of a dangerous plan pulled from a well-worn playbook that, throughout human history, has allowed manipulative leaders to convince people to inflict horrific real-world harm on their neighbors.

But we do not need to let the playbook work.

The accusations that Haitians in Springfield are harming the town’s pets fall squarely in the tradition of the 1994 Rwandan genocide perpetrators calling ethnic Hutus and their Tutsi allies “cockroaches” or Adolph Hitler accusing Jews of threatening non-Jews in Germany.

This false and dangerous speech demonizes whole groups of people and inflames its audience’s fears.

The speech may not immediately produce physical attacks. Still, the leaders hope that if they repeat it, enough people who should know better will put aside their inherent human decency and either join in horrific attacks themselves or tolerate them.

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[SoFlaBro]

1. MAGA shitbags love this fucking shit. The entire pile of those turds ain't worth a puddle of pig piss.

[soandso]

2. It's not nearly that sinister

and the Miami Herald is only giving this oxygen instead of letting it die down. It's a trolling operation at this point. The whole thing began with a guy who spoke at the Springfield city council meeting about some Haitians he claimed had captured and decapitated ducks at a local park. Scroll down to the video of the guy in the red sweatshirt:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13835395/eric-swalwell-meltdown-memes-trump-ducks-kittens.html?ico=related-replace

[Nevilledog]

3. You're repeating RW propaganda.

Trump repeated what amounts to blood libel again TODAY. The city council meeting you're talking about included an actual fucking Nazi repeating these lies. You're also wrong about how this started and how it evolved. Loomer also said it's not just pets, but Haitians eat humans. Jack Posobiec is now pushing that the pets are being taken to perform satanic rituals.




BTW the dominant religion in Haiti is Catholicism.


Triple Hearsay: Original Sources of the Claim that Haitians Eat Pets in Ohio Admit No First-Hand Knowledge

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim

All eyes should be on Springfield Ohio’s cats. But it’s not for the reasons you think.

https://gwenfrisbiefulton.medium.com/all-eyes-should-be-on-springfield-ohios-cats-526b865a4f47

[soandso]

5. The video of the guy

at the city council meeting is right at the link. Apparently you didn't bother to look. That some nutcase freak like Laura Loomer is going off on her bullshit comes as no surprise. I'm just saying that to continue amplifying it is perpetuating something that would go away like like everything in the news cycle. You do you, though.

[Nevilledog]

10. I've seen it. It's bullshit with zero evidence behind it. Saying something doesn't make it true.

[mainer]

9. Thank you for link to NewsGuard

I’d never seen that before. Excellent analysis of how the rumor got started.

[John Shaft]

7. It's bedrock, fundamental American Racism 101.

Not as old as "the Jews are poisoning the wells," but Americans have done this before with tropes of Asian immigrants eating pet cats. Vietnamese refugees getting $5,000 checks or free boats, all kinds of hideous American sickness still abounds. People who come up with this nonsense are perverted.

[Skittles]

4. MAGAts care more about pets in Ohio

than they do about kids in school

[John Shaft]

8. They hate black people

more than they love pets.

[LiberalLoner]

6. A link to donate to the community:

https://www.haitiansupportcenterspringfield.org/

I donated to show my support.