William Lindsey :toad:
Joyce Vance quotes Greg Sargent, who says,
"Fact-checking MAGA's vile lie about cat-eating Haitians misses the point. It's an *open* assertion of the power to lie with impunity about immigrants as a prelude to 'bloody' removals of millions."
Then she adds,
"It's not just that the Haitian story is ridiculous. It's not just that it’s a lie."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #Nazis #genocide
/1
William Lindsey :toad:
"The Trump-Vance campaign isn’t 'backtracking' from it because this is who they are. They want people to hate immigrants, they want to encourage violence. They don’t give a damn that the things they’re saying are false."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/15
William Lindsey :toad:
"A campaign built on populist demagoguery has nowhere else to go especially when slipping in the polls. It is based on an 'us versus them' binary where the 'us' has to constantly be rallied and riled against the 'them.' Fear mongering and resentment—American carnage—is baked into the cake. And it will be served up nonstop between now and November—and perhaps beyond."
~ Shikha Dalmia
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/16
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/maga-wants-to-evade-accountability
William Lindsey :toad:
"This racist lie designed to divide American and stoke hatred towards immigrants and racial minorities — exactly the kind of lie that has in the past resulted in violence against marginalized communities. things they’re saying are false."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/14
https://www.findinggravity.net/p/trump-continues-to-embrace-foreign
William Lindsey :toad:
"He is trying to stir up hatred. It’s the politics of hate that I wrote about in Hatemonger. He wants people to believe that all of their problems are due to immigrants, and to create this — you know, an environment that is extremely unsafe for immigrant families, mixed-status communities, people of color across this country."
~ Jean Guerrero
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/13
William Lindsey :toad:
"Observers correctly noted that the racist trope of immigrants eating pets dehumanizes marginalized people who are already vulnerable, putting them in danger. While posters and media have repeatedly pointed out that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are there legally and have revitalized the city, making fun of those sharing such a stupid lie has a different kind of potential to defang it."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
/11
William Lindsey :toad:
"The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips during a debate watched by tens of millions of people perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
/12
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-haitian-pet-hoax-meme-debate-ohio
William Lindsey :toad:
"Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attacked the moderators and doubled down on the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ pets, despite statements from Springfield police and the town manager that there is no evidence for such a statement."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
/10
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-11-2024
William Lindsey :toad:
"There are monsters in this story, but they aren’t the immigrants trying to build a better life for themselves and their families. They’re the neo-Nazis, the right-wing influencers, the ghoulish amen chorus online and on Fox, and most of all, Donald Trump and JD Vance. They’re seeding the ground for something truly horrifying, and no one should mistake it for anything else."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
/9
William Lindsey :toad:
"JD Vance is no dummy; he is very conscious of the way he is kneading the clay of racist lies to arrive at what he believes is a more elemental truth. ...
This fictional barbarity, Trump and Vance are saying, must be met with genuine barbarity of our own. These are not humans but monsters, and if we have to spill their blood to purify our nation, it will be a righteous and glorious pogrom."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
/8
William Lindsey :toad:
"The story is false, but it ricocheted through right-wing social media, quickly being promoted by Elon Musk, various Republican members of Congress, and Vance himself, who was all too eager to spread it far and wide."
Waldman writes,
"The fake story reveals a deeper, more essential truth that it’s important for people to believe. And what is that supposed truth?"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanizatiion #Nazis #genocide #ElonMusk
/6
William Lindsey :toad:
"Is it that we should be concerned about the effects of immigration on housing prices or school resources? No no no. It’s that immigrants must be seen as sub-human. Who eats dogs and cats? Humans don’t do that.
The accusation is meant to evoke fear and disgust; it’s closely related to the ancient blood libel against Jews, which said they were kidnapping Christian children to kill them and use their blood in dark rituals."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel
/7
William Lindsey :toad:
As Paul Waldman notes, the toxic and easily disproven lie that Trump chose to spread in the debate — that Haitians in Ohio are eating pets — started with Vance, who got the lie from neo-Nazis:
"It wasn’t until neo-Nazis began spreading a lie about those immigrants eating pets that Vance got people to really pay attention to Springfield."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
/5
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-and-vance-are-preparing-for
William Lindsey :toad:
"In extreme cases, dehumanization is a path towards genocide, the way the Nazis called Jews in Germany vermin and claimed that they spread disease and used the blood of non-Jewish children in rituals as prelude to the Holocaust. Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
/3
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for. Trump and Vance are setting up a society where atrocities against other human beings can be justified by dehumanizing them first."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
/4
William Lindsey :toad:
"It is both of those things, but it is more than that; it is also dangerous. Dehumanizing people is what makes inhuman treatment of them possible. It’s how you justify the family separation policy that ripped children from their parents, some of them so young that reunification is still elusive more than five years later."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
/2
William Lindsey :toad:
"Fast forward to Thursday.
The City Hall in Springfield, Ohio was closed by officials after a bomb threat was issued 'to multiple agencies and media outlets.' Haitian community members are now reporting property damage and keeping their children at home to ensure their safety."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/19
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/first-its-haitians-then-its-us-democracy
William Lindsey :toad:
"Within days of Trump and Vance’s public statements, the threats started pouring in. Bomb threats targeting city hall, schools, and county offices shut down entire sections of the town. Parents were told to pick up their children early after multiple evacuation orders. City workers, already stretched thin, found themselves scrambling to respond to a crisis rooted in fiction."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #hate
/20
William Lindsey :toad:
"This falsehood, directed at a community that has done nothing wrong besides being from a different place than the surrounding residents, shows how much the Trump campaign’s strategy hinges on polluting the information environment with lies about vulnerable groups that Republicans want to blame for the country’s problems."
~ Adam Serwer
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/18
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/trump-tv-haitians-immigrants-eating-cats/679788/
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump and Vance are lying about this fabricated allegation about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets because their main goal is to generate the emotion of disgust toward a target group of people, to make immigrants subhuman. Straight out of the fascist, authoritarian playbook and a primer for violence toward that group."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/17
https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/how-dangerous-is-trumps-white-christian
William Lindsey :toad:
"This is the predictable outcome when a presidential candidate mainstreams racist conspiracy theories. The lie about Haitian immigrants eating pets wasn’t just a harmless rumor — it was a match thrown into a volatile situation, and the resulting fire put lives at risk."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate #violence
/21
William Lindsey :toad:
"Fascists use lies as a weapon, to demonize minorities and incite hate and violence.
Trump is literally using the same fascist propaganda lies that Hitler used, to turn ordinary Germans into bloodthirsty Nazis.
Hitler’s lies convinced Germans that Jews were monsters. It led to the Holocaust.
Trump is literally using Hitler’s propaganda tactics, to turn ordinary Republicans into bloodthirsty MAGA Nazis."
~ Oliver Markus Malloy
#Trump #Hitler #BloodLibel #violence
/22
https://maganazi.substack.com/p/theyll-eat-your-pets-is-just-a-slightly
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