the old wise tale
Old wives tale. There’s nothing wise about it…
Because racism is learned. It’s the same tired tropes they heard from their parents. Today’s racists are racist against Central American and Caribbean immigrants. Twenty years ago it was the Middle East. In the 1970s it was southeast Asians. Before that were… everybody else. This is America. There’s always some new cultural group to demonize.
I remember a comedian who once described it like you did saying America is just one big game of tag your it.
That’s a clever and funny way of putting it. It’s just one stupid moral panic after the other, and racism is frequently featured.
As you should expect, the truth is actually between the extremes of “facist trope that is completely false” and “all immigrants are evil.” A person in Ohio recently killed and ate a cat, but was not an immigrant.
For anyone who doesn’t want to click the link, it contains bodycam video of a police officer in Ohio recently arresting a US citizen with blood all over her, fur in her teeth, a dead cat nearby, and multiple eye witnesses saying she killed and ate the cat.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13844919/bodycam-eating-cat-Ohio-trup-pets.html
These rumors/stories, whatever you want to call them, is all new to me, but its just a way to dehumanize a certain group and therefore helping to justify labelling them the new boogieman.
ELI5 Its a way to make a group of people appear less human and different from yourself. This makes it easier to not relate to them and use them as a bad/ evil example of something you want to avoid.
The “immigrant” group to shit on changes every so often where I live.
But when it changes the SAME rumors get saddled on to the new group.
“X group eats pets, better be careful around them.”
“Y group will take your dog and butcher it. Better be watchful”
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It’s an ancient fascist trope.
Well as a lesbian about eating cats i that pussy taste good.
Cats are/were eaten in Vietnam. I have no idea about Haiti and it’s impossible to search it currently. So, this is people jumping to conclusions that immigrants are eating pets.
An immigrant got caught eating someone’s pet a couple weeks back, and it’s been made out to be like an epidemic.
They didn’t even catch them, someone just put a post on Facebook accusing them of it.
