A bomb threat in Springfield, Ohio, came after Trump repeated baseless rumor about immigrants ‘eating pets’
Joe Biden on Friday said the hostile attacks on Haitian immigrants in the US “[have] to stop” after Donald Trump repeated a false and derogatory claim about a Haitian community in Ohio.
“It is simply wrong that the proud Haitian community is under attack right now in this country,” Biden said. “There’s no place in America. This has to stop – what he’s doing. It has to stop,” the US president said at a White House event marking Black excellence.
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, earlier on Friday said that the bomb threat made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the city’s Haitian community, following Donald Trump’s stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residents’ pets are being eaten.
Rob Rue, the mayor, accused national Republicans who are amplifying wild rumors from a far-right provocateur that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are hunting and eating other people’s pets of “hurting our city”.
I actually think this is a dry run for Trump to see if he can “innocently” incite violence. If things don’t go his way in November, the call will be much more direct.
Too bad Biden put forward a far-right border bill that laundered the right-wing narrative that there’s a “border crisis” and that people are flooding in. Fast-forward a few months, and here we are.
The politicians that attached their names to that bill are in-part to blame for legitimizing the racist, anti-immigrant lies we’re hearing today.
Dems need to grow a spine and meaningfully protect minority groups instead of naively aiding the right in demonizing them.
Just brain-storming here, and what if we took away publicity from those that stoke violence? What if we passed laws against encouraging others to murder, to terrorize, commit violence? Would that be helpful?
What if we treated them like the terrorists they are?
It will not, because those laws already largely exist. It has been quite well established I’m the US that inciting violence is not considered protected speech. The laws just don’t apply the same to wealthy people like Trump as they do to anyone else.
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