The morning after former President Donald Trump repeated racist claims about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, some Haitian families are keeping their children home from school for their safety, according to an area activist. Those who allowed their children did so, but with heavy hearts.
“She [my niece] was scared, but I told her to go, that God would protect,” said one Haitian resident, who asked that she not be identified publicly for fear of reprisal.
“We’re all victims this morning,” said the woman, who moved to Springfield six years ago. “They’re attacking us in every way.”
Aside from the anxiety caused by Tuesday night’s debate, the woman also said her cars have been vandalized twice in the middle of the night. She woke up one morning to broken windows and another to acid thrown on the vehicle. She’s added cameras to her driveway and tried to report the incidents to the police to no avail.
Fuck this timeline.
Just as Trump and clan intended…
No man is so smart that he can count all the ways one is required to be dumb enough to do this.
I hope the people who spread the lies about them get charged with incitement
They won’t, but there’s a very good chance some Haitian families will get SWAT’d by racist neighbors.
The police are the perpetrators.
TFG is continuing to practice stochastic terrorism. Ugh.
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It feels almost trite at this point, but:
Wait is this real…? Are they saying the quiet part out loud again…? Screaming loud…?
What’s the context here?
Oof.
Thanks for the link. It’s one thing to be told “trust me bro”, and another entirely to… have context.
They’re attempting to desensitize people to the term and concept of domestic terrorist as well as to get conservatives to see domestic terror as their side
Yes it’s real
Buhbuhbuh he saw it on TV!
God would protect her
Not a great plan.
It’s a concept of a plan
Sue the racists
Ohio is absolutely stacked with far-right judges.
It’s really a terrible place to live if you’re not rich and white.
Acid?
Because of some gibberish an old, senile man sputtered out? There haven’t even been any pets eaten. Are they throwing acid just incase? Wtf is wrong with people.
I feel like I read something about one pet being eaten…
… By a crazy white lady born and raised locally
That’s just what they want you to believe! /s
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A photo of the pet eating alien has been released…
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Conservatism is harmful. It always has been.
In all of human history, nothing good has ever come from conservatism. Nothing. There is simply no place in a modern culture for harmful, regressive, hate-based ideologies like conservatism.
Yep. Conservatism is the antithesis of progress
By definition.
I miss when conservatives tried to conserve things like national parks (i.e. Teddy Roosevelt) instead of using conservatism as a mask for racism.
It’s like, it seems appropriate for a two party system to have one party push for progress, while the other advises caution. But they dropped the euphemism and have been just blatantly racist/xenophobic/anti-other for far too long to pretend now that conservatism is anything else.
it’s almost like we should do something about it instead of waiting for the government to do something about it.
it’s almost like the world is on a collision course with a giant metaphorical iceberg while we stand idly by and do nothing.
it’s almost like any amount of carnage and destruction would be better than a future in which we continue to let morons have a hand in guiding our society.
Nahhh. Don’t look up.
People can be so stupid to believe such racist claims.
Do they believe it or have they found a reason to persecute that they think other people will believe?
It’s easier to believe something when you’re looking for an excuse and want it to be true.
People can be so
stupidracist to believe such racist claims.
Can we hold the person spreading the lies and incitng violence legally responsible?
Well he wasn’t held legally responsible for speeding lies and inciting violence into the US capitol
Yeah I’m aware. But one can still hope.
