{"id":1916,"date":"2024-11-12T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/jd-vance-spreads-a-xenophobic-racist-conspiracy-theory-about-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T07:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T07:20:47","slug":"jd-vance-spreads-a-xenophobic-racist-conspiracy-theory-about-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jd-vance-spreads-a-xenophobic-racist-conspiracy-theory-about-haitian-immigrants-eating-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance spreads a xenophobic, racist conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants eating pets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Monday, JD Vance<\/a> dived face-first into a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory when the GOP vice presidential nominee promoted a false allegation that Haitian immigrants in Ohio have been eating people’s pets. This aligns with other “fear the brown people” rhetoric pushed by Donald Trump<\/a> and his cringe-inducing running mate.<\/p>\n

In the lead-up to Election Day, the Trump-Vance campaign has ramped up its anti-immigrant bigotry by using rhetoric and imagery quite literally befitting the Ku Klux Klan<\/a>. The former president, for example, has spread lies<\/a> about armed immigrant gangs taking over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado — a claim he doubled down on Friday<\/a> even after it was debunked by local police<\/a>. Trump also told attendees at Friday’s rally in Wisconsin that immigrants will take their homes if he’s not elected<\/a> — and that, with migrants and crime, people are not even safe attending his rallies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. Where is our border czar?<\/p>\n

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For his part, Vance last week spread the grotesque lie<\/a> that Kamala Harris is allowing cartels to engage in child sex trafficking in the U.S. The Ohio senator’s post on X about Haitian immigrants fit this sickening trend.<\/p>\n

“Months ago, I raised the issue of Haitian illegal immigrants draining social services and generally causing chaos all over Springfield, Ohio,” Vance wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country. Where is our border czar?”<\/p>\n

But in reality, Ohio is not the “Birth of a Nation”-esque hellscape that Vance tried to depict. As the Springfield News-Sun reported<\/a> Monday, local police have received no such reports of pet-eating Haitians … or of anyone eating stolen pets, for that matter.<\/p>\n

As the Springfield News-Sun reported Monday, local police have received no such reports of pet-eating Haitians … or of anyone eating stolen pets, for that matter.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, this bigoted conspiracy theory had merely been boosted by the likes of Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk<\/a>. And it also was pushed by the X accounts for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee<\/a> and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s certainly some irony to note here. If there’s one party that has shown a willingness to excuse gruesome pet killings, it’s the party that counts <\/a>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem<\/a> as one of its members. But the truth is a mere inconvenience for the Republican Party, whose members have shown a disturbing willingness to portray immigrants of color as uncivilized beasts unfit to walk among us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ja’han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He’s a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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