MAGA is inciting a pogrom against legal Haitian immigrants

Cypress said:

The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio​


The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears

Wed 18 Sep 2024

Does it even matter that the Haitian immigrants who have flocked to Springfield, Ohio, are in the country legally? Does it matter that Springfield, once a depressed post-industrial Rust belt town like so many others, has been economically revitalized by their arrival? Does it matter that the immigrants from Haiti fled violence and economic deprivation in their own country that are the outcome of American policy? Does it matter that none of the bizarre lies that have been peddled about them by Donald Trump, JD Vance and others on the right, telling lurid tales of the migrants capturing and killing local pets, are true?

Two elementary schools in Springfield had to be evacuated because of threats of violence. Think about that: someone contacted Springfield authorities and made threats against grade-school children that were credible enough that the buildings had to be evacuated for the sake of safety.

Haitian immigrants in Springfield told news outlets that they were afraid to leave their homes. There were reports of broken windows and acid thrown on cars. There is a word for this kind of large-scale, organized violence against a local ethnic enclave. That word is pogrom.


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The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears
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So what? If someone is a disruption to the community it should be addressed. The filthy leftists in this country want chaos.
 
Lionfish said:
Is a pogrom a recipe for BBQ pets?
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The recent shitstorm and the rhetoric swirling around is kind of getting out of hand. I realize the Left bears some significant responsibility for amping up the rhetoric, but then the MAGA folks turn around and do something like this. It makes it really hard to continue the fiction of some moral equivalence between the two sides.

I know you folks in MAGA don't really want what this is invariably leading to. But if you read history you will see that anytime a candidate to lead a country starts amplifying and spinning up a "scapegoat" and then starts attributing really, really bad stuff to that scapegoat (aka a form of "blood libel" if you will) it is really hard for us on the Left to NOT make the obvious comparisons.

We on the Left could certainly do to be the adults and dial our rhetoric back, but you guys have to stop making shot-for-shot remakes of 1930's Germany.
 
moon said:
You're just anti-racist when it suits you. Your support for the Jewish genocide in Gaza is a matter of record.
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Towel head jihadists like yourself, Moondoggie,
knocked down the World Trade Center.

Way back in the 1970s, Iranian Muslim criminals of a different Islamic denomination took hostages from a US Embassy.

On October 7, they went to war against Israel in cowardly terrorist fashion.
This time it was Palestinians instead of Saudis or Iranians, but so what?

Fuck you and them alike, Moondoggie.
You're a malignant cancer on humanity.
People of quality who matter hate you.
I hope you know that.
 
Kafka said:
The recent shitstorm and the rhetoric swirling around is kind of getting out of hand. I realize the Left bears some significant responsibility for amping up the rhetoric, but then the MAGA folks turn around and do something like this. It makes it really hard to continue the fiction of some moral equivalence between the two sides.

I know you folks in MAGA don't really want what this is invariably leading to. But if you read history you will see that anytime a candidate to lead a country starts amplifying and spinning up a "scapegoat" and then starts attributing really, really bad stuff to that scapegoat (aka a form of "blood libel" if you will) it is really hard for us on the Left to NOT make the obvious comparisons.

We on the Left could certainly do to be the adults and dial our rhetoric back, but you guys have to stop making shot-for-shot remakes of 1930's Germany.
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There are no morals in politics. You might consider changing forums.
 
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Lionfish said:
There are no morals in politics.
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Yeah there are. Probably the biggest one is to not actively pursue a policy in which innocent legal people in our country are systematically demonized in order to coalesce a political base.

Morality in politics is, indeed, pretty fungible....but there are limits. We are fast approaching those limits.
 
moon said:
You're just anti-racist when it suits you. Your support for the Jewish genocide in Gaza is a matter of record.
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and....

pointing out immigrants food choices isn't hate.

this very well may be the solution to feral cats and dogs.

but of course, Dems go into convulsions when truth comes around.
 
CIA TOTALITARIANISM said:
and....

pointing out immigrants food choices isn't hate.

this very well may be the solution to feral cats and dogs.

but of course, Dems go into convulsions when truth comes around.
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Remember there are leftists facts which are like trans women. They aren't really facts and they aren't really women they just believe they are.
 
Yakuda said:
So what? If someone is a disruption to the community it should be addressed. The filthy leftists in this country want chaos.
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Explain exactly how these Haitians are a threat to the community, and then explain how exactly calling in bomb threats to schools and pouring acid on people's cars addresses anything.
 
Oh, how the media blows things out of Proportion and Doesn't tell the real truths... I'm so glad they're investigating ..
 
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