Lying About The Haitians
Over the past 24 hours, my radio show has been flooded with calls and emails from listeners in Springfield, Ohio where the false story was spawned that Haitian migrants were eating house cats. Social media agitators on the right quite literally created this story out of thin air which has allowed mainstream media outlets to debunk it as racism and simply move on.
But the calls and emails directed at my show are from right-of-center listeners who are singularly furious with the social media agitators because Springfield, Ohio is a city overrun with immigrants. This city with a population of 58,000 saw 15,000 to 20,000 immigrants with work permits move into the city to work low-wage manufacturing jobs.
This blue-collar city has been forced to massively drive up investments in education and basic services because the influx of immigrants has overwhelmed the community’s resources.
This is a complicated issue but the Biden-Harris administration made it inextricably worse by allowing thousands of unskilled Haitians into this country with work permits. Instead of focusing on Kamala Harris’s evolving immigration policy or her economic policy, too many people on the right want to fabricate stories about Haitians eating cats less than two months before an election. Watch:
I agree that mindless social media mockery is drowning out the real signal. If it is indeed the Biden Harris policy to massively increase the population of a town with refugees that cannot be easily accommodated, that is pure incompetence and should be roundly condemned. How has this not been visible to us? Why should we support those that have caused this massive problem - or the news organizations that should be showing the struggles in city council meetings? The outburst in social media is the result of frustration about the unchecked manipulation, deceit and corruption from the top down.
Well Naimbia just authorized the slaughter of 900 wild animals including elephants to feed its population. Sri Lanka is experiencing food shortages. As the US funded Global Order winds down, expect that house cats will be eaten.