'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
The woman behind an early Facebook post that helped spark baseless rumors about Haitians eating pets told NBC News that she feels for the immigrant community.
"I never meant to say a racist thing" says woman who said a racist thing.
"[...]again, that’s not what I was trying to do."
Ok so what were you trying to do when you posted this nonsense?
She blew the racist dog whistle too hard
She wanted to give everyone hugs I guess
“I’m not a racist,” she said
How DUMB can you be to post such hateful fingerpointing if you aren't indeed racist?
The worst kind of racist.
"I'm not a racist, I just spread rumors that are based on racist ideology."
Being dumb isn't an excuse; it's a prerequisite.
The only hope here is that this specific moment forced her to recognize her racism and she stops spreading it going forward. She'll still be racist and she wakes to her own culpability
Just goes to show that, yes, stupid racist remarks can have a massive impact.
I'm starting to feel like this says more about Ohioans than it does about Hatians
Springfield is a real place?
I think its more like at least 5 real places
Much more than that.
I knew homer was the one eating the cats all along.
MMMmmmmm... tabby...
Wait Trump didn't just make it up he actually saw this on Facebook?
It's wild he is viable as a presidential candidate.
He's either a potential world leader easily fooled by random people online OR one deliberately lying to incite racial violence.
i'd say both.
The least realistic thing here is Trump running.
Bone spurs go brrrr
Lol
So it was tromp stealing the kittens all along. Hope they catch him.
the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors
Lemmy: RACIST BITCH!
OK, maybe she shouldn't have casually repeated it, but put down the pitchforks, she didn't make the accusation.
She also didn't bother to question the absurdity of it.
She also had the choice to post it, without naming the country the blamed people where coming from (why should it matter anyway?).
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She agreed with it enough to create a post about it and broadcast it to the entire Internet.
Well Zuckerberg and Musk would be at least partially to blame since their algorithms do a lot of the broadcasting.