# The stupid rumors about Springfield Haitians **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 13, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210 "2024-09-13T04:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/141 "2024-09-14T23:19:07Z")
This actually made me laugh. Seeing two chickens and thinking “a cat!” because you see 4 legs is so utterly stupid it’s ridiculous. I’m assuming these people didn’t pass a high school biology class, or even, maybe, kindergarten, to learn the difference between mammals and birds? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/142 "2024-09-14T23:28:07Z")
You can even see a wing hanging over the edge of the grill, for crying out loud. Vance is either a Nazi or he’s the dumbest motherfucker in the state of Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/143 "2024-09-14T23:29:45Z")
Why not both? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/144 "2024-09-14T23:35:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Someone is going to get killed because of JD Vance. See? He really does want to be just like Trump. [Switching back to the stupid rumors, evidently the woman who started them is regretful.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/just-exploded-springfield-woman-claims-004811293.html) (The link goes to Yahoo.) She also claims: > “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.” Of course that leads one to ask, “So, exactly what was your intent on spreading a third-hand story (fourth-hand, fifth-hand)?” Remember the melon felon’s inane response “a concept of a plan”? In this case, the woman at the meat of the matter misstated what she’d heard from “a neighbor of an acquaintance of a friend”. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/145 "2024-09-15T00:01:19Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Many cultures have eaten dogs regularly. Cats not so much, probably for reasons. Good call. I’ve been told, decades ago, that human cultures do not typically eat carnivorous mammals. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they must have a meat based diet. Dogs are omnivores, as are bears. Still, most human cultures will not eat dog (or bear) if herbivores are available. Pigs, while being omnivores, in the wild, as well as those bred for human consumption, eat mainly a plant-based diet. Even then, many human cultures have rules against eating pigs. No, any claim of humans eating cat is ~~likely~~ undoubtedly false, unless they are starving. As for the geese, anyone who can capture a wild goose is not someone you want to fool with. Geese are mean and nasty, not a combination you want to mess with. Particularly if chicken is available. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/146 "2024-09-15T00:44:41Z")
I heard years ago that people don’t eat cats, because they taste _terrible._ ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/147 "2024-09-15T00:53:23Z")
If you’re counting on conservatives getting tired of weaponizing racism you are all in for a long wait. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/148 "2024-09-15T00:54:14Z")
I’ve read that as well, that though cat may be eaten as a medicinal (sic) food, it tastes bad and is primarily a starvation food. Carnivores apparently don’t taste very good. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/149 "2024-09-15T00:54:35Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I heard years ago that people don’t eat cats, because they taste _terrible._ The hacking up of the hairballs afterward is no picnic either. sorry ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/150 "2024-09-15T00:57:40Z")
> ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/151 "2024-09-15T01:03:28Z")
~~**Juror #10** :~~ **Conservatives** : Oh, sure, there are some good things about 'em, too! Look, I’m the first one to say that! ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/152 "2024-09-15T01:05:08Z")
Oh I’m sure I’ll get a lecture from some old white dude, who this will never directly impact, about how I need to reach these racists half way. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/153 "2024-09-15T01:08:34Z")
**Old White Dude** : Can we at least agree that they all have rhythm, are excellent at sports that don’t involve water or ice, and have large penises? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/154 "2024-09-15T01:24:15Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > I’m assuming these people didn’t pass a high school biology class, or even, maybe, kindergarten, to learn the difference between mammals and birds? TBF many American students won’t get much further than mammals=hair, birds=feathers. OTOH anyone who has grilled or roasted knows what a plucked chicken looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cool)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/155 "2024-09-15T01:54:13Z")
So it is not immigrants, but rather a pyscho roaming around in these neighborhoods? htt ps://www .youtube.c om/watch?v=JFdYiR Pz-R0&1 ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/156 "2024-09-15T02:25:25Z")
the OP ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/157 "2024-09-15T02:37:30Z")
Neither. That’s a coyote kill and it’s over 1000 miles from Ohio, so cut the shit, you racist dumbfuck. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/158 "2024-09-15T02:41:18Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I think the whole idea that things are in some kind of state of moral and social decay is just people remembering or worse, fantasizing about some “ideal” past era that never existed. The problem for the Republicans is that they’re trying to claim the moral high ground while standing in a really deep hole. They not only have to make up lies about the Democrats, they have to make those lies worse than everything the Republicans have already done. In this particular election cycle, we’ve already had a Republican bragging about killing pets. So to regain the moral high ground, Republicans need to accuse people of killing pets and then eating them. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/159 "2024-09-15T02:43:19Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > you racist dumbfuck. Now, now, they didn’t creatively spell a racial slur so there really isn’t anything to get that upset about. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupid-rumors-about-springfield-haitians/1007210/160 "2024-09-15T04:07:53Z")
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