'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
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.
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...
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.
My neighbor told me that they think you are a racism apologist (aka a racist).
"My racist neighbor told me a racist lie based on common racist tropes and I repeated it on the Internet to a bunch of racists, not because I'm racist but because...."
And you defended them because...
Edit: from the cited newsgaurd link in the article btw.
Lee, who described herself to NewsGuard as a Democrat who supports Donald Trump, told us that she was “shocked” to see Trump repeat the claim that she had made in a private Facebook group. "Honestly, it blew me away,” Lee said. “I didn't think that any of this would explode to the presidency.”
As for how the story has shed a negative light on the thousands of Haitian migrants who have settled in Springfield, Lee said she was “just trying to inform people, you know, again, not saying Haitians as a whole [are] bad.”
And yes, the neighbor who told the story is outwardly racist.
For her part, Newton, Lee’s neighbor, said she remains concerned that the influx of Haitians is negatively affecting the city’s healthcare and education systems.
“I think it was two years ago now, I went to the [Bureau of Motor Vehicles] to renew my license or my tags. I can't remember, but I was sitting in the BMV, and the only way I know to describe it is I felt like … I was transported, because all around me it was people talking a different language. … I felt like I was the minority,” she said.
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim
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?).
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.