As Joyce Vance reminds us,
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As Joyce Vance reminds us,
"Today, it has been 61 years since a white supremacist’s bomb went off at 10:22 a.m. at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were getting ready for church services."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Then:
"Today, as church bells ring across my city and people mourn the loss of young lives and condemn the evil men who made it possible, this country is at risk of repeating that history. Just like violence against Black people was often justified by lies about crimes they had committed, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are spreading lies about Haitian immigrants—lies that are so ridiculous they would be laughable if their potential impact wasn’t so deadly serious."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"It’s easier to spread hate and sow division than to work to make a country better. That’s what domestic terrorism is: ideologically driven crimes used to intimidate or coerce a civilian population and to influence policy or conduct of government. That’s the ultimate irony of Trump’s 'Make America Great Again' slogan."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate
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Jemar Tisby reminds readers of the threats of violence and murder that Charles Morgan Jr., a white lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama, received when he spoke out about the silent (and sometimes active) complicity of "good" white citizens and church members with the violence of the church bombings.
This is our history, and it's imperative that we face it now.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #Birmingham #ChurchBombing
/4https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/the-backlash-against-charles-morgan
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Bomb threats have come to Springfield, Ohio. So why don’t Trump and J.D. Vance back off the demagoguery? Because supercharging all these toxic social tensions is precisely what they want."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats
/5https://newrepublic.com/article/185953/trump-vance-haitians-springfield-ohio
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The right wing engages in stochastic terrorism to foment violence, in a way that’s eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany of the late 1930s. We talk a lot about this comparison, not because it’s facile, but because it’s accurate."
~ Stephanie G. Wilson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/6https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/trump-lies-about-immigrants-to-distract
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Eveline Sulmanreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy now that I lecture about the nazi regime again I recognize a lot of their totalitarianism, e.g. in project 2025, and their fear monguering tactics, such as this. Also their open racism and mysogeny.
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Eva Chandareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
They would only be between 71 and 74 years old today if they hadn't been murdered. #RestInPower Denise, Carole, Addie Mae, and Cynthia
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Peter Garwood www.bbbrclub.orgreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It is straight out of Goebbels playbook
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Eva Chanda last edited by
@echanda Yes. They were my contemporaries. So many of us want to forget and pretend about what I myself know and remember because I've seen it in my very own lifetime.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Peter Garwood www.bbbrclub.org last edited by
@petergarwood It is, indeed.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Eveline Sulman last edited by
@EvelineSulman Yes. Silly talk about Godwin's law has deterred to many of us, I think, from seeing the clear and alarming parallels.
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"It’s not every day that a political figure openly admits to fabricating stories to get media attention. But that’s precisely what Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance did during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. Vance acknowledged that he 'create[d] stories' about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, supposedly stealing and eating people’s pets."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #JDVance #Ohio #Haitians #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats
/7In a Stunning Admission, J.D. Vance Acknowledges "Creat[ing] Stories" That Fueled Hate in Ohio
By spreading lies about Haitian immigrants, Vance has unleashed a wave of fear, prompting threats and escalating tensions in an already vulnerable Ohio community.
(www.readtpa.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"If Donald Trump quotes Nazis, dines with Nazis, promotes Nazi talking points, describes Nazis as 'very fine people,' pals around with people who platform Nazi apologists, and mainstreams Nazi conspiracy theories that have resulted in terrorist attacks and threaten to endanger innocent Haitian communities, then what do you call such a person?"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/8It’s OK To Use The N Word to Describe Trump and MAGA
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are promoting a hateful and false lie about Haitian immigrants that originated from a neo-Nazi group. Must we all play Taboo to find the correct label to describe MAGA?
(thelefthook.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
As NBC News reports, Trump advisor Tim Murtaugh defends Trump's telling lies about Haitian immigrants because this allows immigration to "be talked about," and another unnamed Trump advisor repeats, "Immigration should be talked about," and Trump accomplished this by lying about and targeting Haitians.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/9How a fringe online claim about immigrants eating pets made its way to the debate stage
Around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, tens of millions of television viewers watched as Donald Trump spread an unsubstantiated and racially charged rumor running wild online.
NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Note the shocking amoral heart of this argument by Republican officials: if their leaders lie boldly about a targeted community of immigrants, knowing as they spread vicious lies that they are both violating the truth and exposing hapless human beings to violence, this is all to the good, if it focuses the conversation on immigration.
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
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caseyjonesedreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I call him a Nazi.
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Urban Camerareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Lies are constantly being told about guns and gun control, but it is never the right time....
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Alarodreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy “See? This is how they look when they’re getting ready to eat your cat! Snarl!”
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
Merrill Kaplan notes that "the pet-eating rumor is just the latest iteration of a legend that has long attached to assorted immigrant groups in the US." In the 1890s, it was used to target recent German immigrants. And:
"In the 1980s, Asian immigrants (Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong) were accused of stealing and eating pets in Eau Claire, Wisconsin…"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats #Nazis
/11Haitian immigrants not first to be accused of pet eating. Trump's comments are nothing new
Guest column: The pet-eating rumor is just the latest iteration of a legend that has long attached to assorted immigrant groups in the U.S.
The Columbus Dispatch (www.dispatch.com)