"bête et méchant" is a French phrase that best describes the average American, which can be translated into what Americans are known to be around the world, the proverbial "dumb and ugly" American, with ugly here referring to nastiness of character rather than to a physical attribute.
A prototypical dumb Springfield woman now says no Haitains ate any cat. It's just that her neighbor's cat went missing and when the neighbor asked her if she'd seen the cat, the neighbor also suggested that the cat may have been the victim of
yet another neighbor, a "felinophagic" black African Haitian. Perhaps she may have watched too many imbecilic Hollywood movies about white American explorers discovering cannibalistic primitive Africans in the jungle, and just as Haitians are Africans, the "eureka" moment exploded in the brain of this super-intelligent woman and she made the connection. Those black African Haitians MUST HAVE eaten the cat!
When Mark Zuckenberg gets involved in promoting stupidity to racists and idiots on his moronic personal-data-stealing Facebook platform, someone like this woman has the power to multiply her stupidity by million-fold, and she did just that: She posted on Facebook the case of the missing cat and added the neighbor's suggestion that the cat was eaten by Haitians.
Finally, the supreme American Moron Donald J. Dumb picks up on it and declares live on television to the world, with a gnarling speech spewing hatred, "Haitian migrants are eating dogs, cats... they're eating the pets of the people of Springfield".
Now those Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are legal immigrants who work and live without any problem, providing the labor that lazy bum Americans don't want to do. But hey, racism is in the American DNA. And it's not about fearing difference. Americans are by and large a population of bastards who should be used to difference, but something genetically happens when a people is generated by the breeding of ignorant peasants from multiple ethnicities and origins. When you do that in any species, you're gonna produce all kinds of permutations in the DNA, and it takes generations for natural selection to weed out, or to "select" the morons out of the F1 and F2 generations. That is why historians keep reminding us that America is still an "experimental" nation. Until the experiment concludes, brace yourselves: Half of America consists of people who vote for Donald Dumb and his inbred morons from the Southern and Middle American states.
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'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.
“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.
Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.
Newsguard, a media watchdog that monitors for misinformation online, found that Lee had been among the first people to publish a post to social media about the rumor, screenshots of which circulated online. The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party, NewsGuard reported.
Newton told Newsguard that Lee’s Facebook post misstated her story, and that the owner of the missing cat was “an acquaintance of a friend” rather than her daughter’s friend. Newton could not be reached for comment.
Lee said she had no idea the post would become part of a rumor mill that would spiral into the national consciousness. She has since deleted the Facebook post.
Other posts have also contributed to the false allegations, including a photo of a man holding a dead goose that was taken in Columbus, Ohio, but was spread by some online as evidence of the claims about Springfield. Graphic video of a woman who allegedly killed and tried to eat a cat was also found not to have originated in Springfield but in Canton, Ohio, and does not have any connection to the Haitian community.
Local police and city officials have repeatedly said there is no evidence of such crimes in Springfield, but that hasn’t stopped the lies from spreading across the country and igniting a national frenzy that landed on the presidential debate stage this week. Former President Donald Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who was born less than an hour away from Springfield, have repeated the baseless allegations.
Lee said she never imagined her post would become fodder for conspiracy theories and hate.
“I’m not a racist,” she said through heavy emotion, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”
The anti-immigrant fervor in Springfield led to school and municipal building closures on Thursday and Friday after city officials received bomb threats.
Lee said she pulled her daughter out of school and is now worried about her safety with so much attention on her family. She is also concerned for the safety of the Haitian community, which she said she did not intend to villainize en masse.
“I feel for the Haitian community,” she said. “If I was in the Haitians’ position, I’d be terrified, too, worried that somebody’s going to come after me because they think I’m hurting something that they love and that, again, that’s not what I was trying to do.”
Immigrant advocacy groups have said these kinds of claims can be dangerous.
“The Haitian-American community in Springfield, OH and around the country is feeling targeted and unsafe because dehumanizing, debunked and racist conspiracies are being advanced at the highest levels of American politics and are still being repeated,” Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America's Voice, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration refor said in an email. “The false claim that Black immigrants are violently attacking American families by stealing and eating their pets is a powerful and old racist trope that puts a target on people’s backs, and it is turbo-charged in the era of MAGA when political violence has become commonplace and we have already witnessed violent incidents incited by such rhetoric.”
Lee said that there are very real problems related to Springfield's population boom that caught the struggling city off guard. Springfield was not prepared to address the housing, health care and other service needs that came with the sudden increase of new residents over the last five years when Haitians arrived, many of them with protected status under federal law.
Still, she never imagined that her Facebook post would set off a national news cycle.
“I didn’t think it would ever get past Springfield," she said.
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