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mbgerring 7 hours ago

We’re talking about people making things up from whole cloth, such as asserting that Haitian immigrants steal and eat dogs from white Americans in the suburbs, among many, many such examples. San Francisco has also been a target of this kind of propaganda for the entire time I’ve lived here.

I agree that social problems should be exposed. One such social problem is widespread, entirely fabricated stories of crime and violence, accepted uncritically by people who don’t live in the supposedly affected areas, driving division and political discourse that lead to real-world harm.

There is an enormous amount of evidence that this propaganda, mainly spread through social media, is a product of a foreign government strategy to interfere in the internal politics of “enemy” nations. If this is true, it should be exposed and shut down.

mothballed 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think it's any secret that some cultures love to eat dogs or other "pets" or unusual animals. I wonder if Trump was mixing up Haitians with some other groups.

I have a lot of 3rd world family, when I take them to the zoo they spend about half the time ogling over all the animals they've eaten or would like to eat. When I go back to their home country, I see dogs being roasted over an open fire. I have personally been offered a dog I've witnessed roasting, more than once, by a common immigrant group in America.

defrost 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We're all aware of the roadside kill peccadilloes of the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, but that's hardly cause to paint them all as a third world family.

fhdkweig 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I wonder if Trump was mixing up Haitians with some other groups.

This started from a specific accusation from one neighbor blaming a missing cat on a Haitian neighbor, claiming to see it hanging dead from a tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_pet-eating_hoax