Well, nobody could have anticipated that racist slander against a group of disadvantaged people could actually cause harm.
Some may be under the impression that JD Vance cooked up this rumor about ducks and cats himself. That doesn’t appear to be the case. According to Zaid Jilani, contributor to the Dispatch, the rumor can be sourced to a Gab channel days before Vance mentioned it. The speaker was a member of Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group.
Dispatch article, to provide Jilani’s bona fides:
Nobody expects the American MAGA imputations?
Of course they could have. If they had used their noodle.
Racism is on the rise in this country.
You can’t be posting crap like that, unless you’re trying to start something.
Plain ol’stupid.
I really really hope that woman gets a visit from the FBI. And she better cross her fingers no one dies as a result.
You bring the claim, you bring the cite.
Earlier this week my son wanted ramen for lunch. He selected the package he wanted and started to laugh, because the package was creased such that the label that reads
CHICKEN
POULET
looked like it said
CHIEN
PET
(“Chien” means “dog” in french).
Of course, I also found it funny (because it actually is a humourous outcome of folding those words that way), but this led to a 7:30am conversation about racism and slurs and othering and being cautious about how this story is told at school because of the unfortunate history of the racist idea behind immigrants, particularly Asians, eating cats and dogs.
Racists ruin everything. The whole fact that is is a “serious” talking point during an American presidential election cycle is so absurd, it’s mind-numbing.
Proof!
I saw someone on TV say the Haitians are also eating people!
(I actually did see something like this. It was a Good Liars-type clip of interviewing MAGAs at a Trump rally, or something, I saw on YouTube, but I can’t find it now to post.)
Maganut is up in arms about it!
Cannibals! None should be allowed here!
If they were cannibals, they wouldn’t eat cats.
He totally cray.
Personally, I blame Hannibal Lector. At the end of The Silence of the Lambs, he had escaped to a Caribbean-looking island that could have been Haiti. I bet that’s who the Haitians got their cannibalism from and then they brought it to Ohio!
Psst, I think @Atamasama was being sarcastic.
Oh, hard to tell sometimes.
And a woman found a severed human finger in her chili. It was eventually discovered that she was the one who put it there.
And Trump really admires Hannibal Lecter too, in an ironic twist.
I feel ya for sure. I have responded indignantly more than once when I took sarcasm at face value. Funny how it can be blindingly obvious to some people, and yet some of us completely miss it.
Which is why we need a sarcasm font.
I’ve always figured that @Atamasama is a font of sarcasm.
And that’s pretty high praise from me.
Just ban this troll and be done with it.
I didn’t think it was too subtle.
Flatterer!
Two hospitals had to lock down today.
Someone is going to get killed because of JD Vance.