Joyce Vance quotes Greg Sargent, who says,
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"In extreme cases, dehumanization is a path towards genocide, the way the Nazis called Jews in Germany vermin and claimed that they spread disease and used the blood of non-Jewish children in rituals as prelude to the Holocaust. Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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"Trump is using similar language as a prelude to the proposed mass deportations of migrants that both he and Project 2025 (which he claimed last night he’d never read) call for. Trump and Vance are setting up a society where atrocities against other human beings can be justified by dehumanizing them first."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
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@wdlindsy Seems like they should have their mic taken away if they're spewing out lies regularly.
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As Paul Waldman notes, the toxic and easily disproven lie that Trump chose to spread in the debate — that Haitians in Ohio are eating pets — started with Vance, who got the lie from neo-Nazis:
"It wasn’t until neo-Nazis began spreading a lie about those immigrants eating pets that Vance got people to really pay attention to Springfield."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanization #Nazis #genocide
/5Trump and Vance Are Preparing For a Bloodbath
What their racist lie about immigrants eating pets is supposed to accomplish.
(paulwaldman.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The story is false, but it ricocheted through right-wing social media, quickly being promoted by Elon Musk, various Republican members of Congress, and Vance himself, who was all too eager to spread it far and wide."
Waldman writes,
"The fake story reveals a deeper, more essential truth that it’s important for people to believe. And what is that supposed truth?"
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #dehumanizatiion #Nazis #genocide #ElonMusk
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This world is too stupid for me.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Is it that we should be concerned about the effects of immigration on housing prices or school resources? No no no. It’s that immigrants must be seen as sub-human. Who eats dogs and cats? Humans don’t do that.
The accusation is meant to evoke fear and disgust; it’s closely related to the ancient blood libel against Jews, which said they were kidnapping Christian children to kill them and use their blood in dark rituals."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel
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"JD Vance is no dummy; he is very conscious of the way he is kneading the clay of racist lies to arrive at what he believes is a more elemental truth. ...
This fictional barbarity, Trump and Vance are saying, must be met with genuine barbarity of our own. These are not humans but monsters, and if we have to spill their blood to purify our nation, it will be a righteous and glorious pogrom."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
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"There are monsters in this story, but they aren’t the immigrants trying to build a better life for themselves and their families. They’re the neo-Nazis, the right-wing influencers, the ghoulish amen chorus online and on Fox, and most of all, Donald Trump and JD Vance. They’re seeding the ground for something truly horrifying, and no one should mistake it for anything else."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #BloodLibel #antisemitism #pogroms
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"Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attacked the moderators and doubled down on the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ pets, despite statements from Springfield police and the town manager that there is no evidence for such a statement."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
/10September 11, 2024
Today’s fallout from last night’s presidential debate between Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican nominee former president Donald Trump has shown Harris solidifying her dominant position.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Observers correctly noted that the racist trope of immigrants eating pets dehumanizes marginalized people who are already vulnerable, putting them in danger. While posters and media have repeatedly pointed out that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are there legally and have revitalized the city, making fun of those sharing such a stupid lie has a different kind of potential to defang it."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
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"The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips during a debate watched by tens of millions of people perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia
/12Trump's racist pet hoax exposes weirdo meme culture to normies
It's a case of suicide by meme.
(www.publicnotice.co)
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https://www.theframelab.org/jd-vances-racist-attack-on-haitians-is-strategic/
https://www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide/?ref=theframelab.org"But there may be a method to this madness. It's part of an ongoing effort by Republicans to demonize immigrant communities and terrorize white voters into supporting Trump.
Last month, I wrote about "Unhumans," a book by right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec (with a foreword by J.D. Vance). The book depicts Democratic voters as demon-possessed monsters on a mission to massacre everyone else in society."
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"He is trying to stir up hatred. It’s the politics of hate that I wrote about in Hatemonger. He wants people to believe that all of their problems are due to immigrants, and to create this — you know, an environment that is extremely unsafe for immigrant families, mixed-status communities, people of color across this country."
~ Jean Guerrero
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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@wdlindsy what really gets me is that some locals there are complaining that the cost of housing has gone up because of all the new residents. They’re blaming the renters and buyers and not the landlords and sellers who are long-time neighbors that jack up the price for a profit. Blaming the consumers instead of the capitalists for hoarding and gouging inventory.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"This racist lie designed to divide American and stoke hatred towards immigrants and racial minorities — exactly the kind of lie that has in the past resulted in violence against marginalized communities. things they’re saying are false."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
/14Trump continues to embrace foreign autocrats, and other debate observations
Kamala Harris eviscerated Trump last night
(www.findinggravity.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"The Trump-Vance campaign isn’t 'backtracking' from it because this is who they are. They want people to hate immigrants, they want to encourage violence. They don’t give a damn that the things they’re saying are false."
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #Ohio #lies #xenophobia #hate #PoliticsofHate
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@wdlindsy
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🥥 The Right's casual employment of racist lies attempts to use memes to achieve authoritarian expansion.
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"A campaign built on populist demagoguery has nowhere else to go especially when slipping in the polls. It is based on an 'us versus them' binary where the 'us' has to constantly be rallied and riled against the 'them.' Fear mongering and resentment—American carnage—is baked into the cake. And it will be served up nonstop between now and November—and perhaps beyond."
~ Shikha Dalmia
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #immigrants #Haitians #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/16MAGA Wants to Evade Accountability for Trump's Campaign of Lies and Fear Mongering
The UnPopulist's Post-Debate Analysis: Shikha Dalmia on Trump's populist demagoguery and Berny Belvedere on the right-wing meltdown over the moderators
(www.theunpopulist.net)