Trump promises to deport all the Haitians to Venezuela.

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No it's a fact that people are afraid to speak out against most anything the left wants them to stay quiet over. It's quite clear that saying anything about this situation just being a possibility has been declared racist hate speech.

It IS racist to accuse people of a different race of eating pets without good evidence.

Your conspiratorial nonsense is noted.

 

[BPPLEE]

I'm not sure why the people making the accusations deserve the benefit of the doubt but the Haitians don't.

Not completely ruling it out and making the accusation like it is truth because you are racist are two different things.

The former president did the latter and he's done it repeatedly now and the whole thing was stoked by the VP for a while now.

Well I have to admit he did go all in.

 

[variant]

Well I have to admit he did go all in.

It would be hard to deny, but in my experience people seem willing. Thanks I guess.

 

[BPPLEE]

It would be hard to deny, but in my experience people seem willing. Thanks I guess.

 

[Aldebaran]

It IS racist to accuse people of a different race of eating pets without good evidence.

Your conspiratorial nonsense is noted.

In what way does eating a pet involve race???
If a woman accused a man of eating a pet, would that be sexist?
If a young person accused an older person of eating a pet, would that be ageist?

Or are people of a "different race" somehow immune to being held accountable because they're assumed to not be as intelligent or discerning?

 

[variant]

Yeah it's all a big Joke.

 

[variant]

In what way does eating a pet involve race???
If a woman accused a man of eating a pet, would that be sexist?
If a young person accused an older person of eating a pet, would that be ageist?

Or are people of a "different race" somehow immune to being held accountable because they're assumed to not be as intelligent or discerning?

It's racism because it's denigrating people of a different race, if he accused Jews of eating peoples pets it would be antisemitism.

But yeah, finding things to make up about people of a different race so as to denigrate and dehumanize them is the definition of racism.

Racism:
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized


So, how long do you suppose Trump will have to keep denigrating this racial minority group before you would consider it racism?

He's on three days now of repeating his claims. I'm sorry four.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Trump vows to quickly deport Springfield’s migrants

Republican candidate says he will send the city’s immigrants back to Venezuela – even though they are from Haiti

www.telegraph.co.uk

I wonder where he's going to deport the Mexicans?

Might actually solve the problem.

 

[Aldebaran]

It's racism because it's denigrating people of a different race, if he accused Jews of eating peoples pets it would be antisemitism.

But yeah, finding things to make up about people of a different race so as to denigrate and dehumanize them is the definition of racism.

Racism:
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized


So, how long do you suppose Trump will have to keep denigrating this racial minority group before you would consider it racism?

He's on three days now of repeating his claims. I'm sorry four.

You should probably go back and re-read your definition of racism. At no point did Trump make his assertion based on a race. It was based on the action they committed. You're the one focusing on the accused peoples' race and making that the basis of your claim.

 

[Ana the Ist]

America shouldn't treat refugees from persecution this way,

The way Haitians are being treated is better than the residents of Springfield.

 

[variant]

You should probably go back and re-read your definition of racism. At no point did Trump make his assertion based on a race. It was based on the action they committed. You're the one focusing on the accused peoples' race and making that the basis of your claim.

He claimed it about a particular ethnic group yes. If I claimed Chinese people were eating cats without good evidence I am sure I would rightfully be called racist.

It's the denigration of a particular racial group that makes it racist.

 

[Ana the Ist]

It's racism because it's denigrating people of a different race

It's a fact.

I don't care if they're eating dogs or cats particularly....but they are eating the local wildlife.

I don't think you really understand what you're supporting.

 

[Aldebaran]

He claimed it about a particular ethnic group yes. If I claimed Chinese people were eating cats without good evidence I am sure I would rightfully be called racist.

It's the denigration of a particular racial group that makes it racist.

I claim chinese people eat rice. I guess that makes me racist.

 

[variant]

It's a fact.

I don't care if they're eating dogs or cats particularly....but they are eating the local wildlife.

I don't think you really understand what you're supporting.

Ah, so that's the real issue here, someone poached some geese? You have odd priorities. Surely that rises to a national issue worthy of mass deportation.

 

[Ana the Ist]

So what begins to happen is that this town [Springfield], as it falls on hard times, you begin to see houses boarded up, buildings abandoned, downtown looking in sad shape. And that decline persisted for several decades, until a few years ago, when the city leadership and the Chamber of Commerce decided to do something about it. They came up with a plan to revitalize the city.

They started pitching this city as an attractive place to do business. The location of the city, smack dab between Dayton and Columbus, is a big plus. It’s easily accessible to two interstates. It has several colleges and institutions for training. And it’s an affordable place to live and to operate as a business. And this plan actually succeeds.

A major turning point was in 2017 when a very large Japanese auto parts maker acquired land in a decaying part of the city and set up shop, creating hundreds of jobs. And it was probably one of the biggest employers that ended up setting up shop there, but it wasn’t the only one.

Companies that make boxes for Happy Meals sold at McDonald’s.

Companies that distribute clothing across the country. But there was a problem. There weren’t enough workers.

Immigrants start to arrive, in particular Haitians. Like other immigrant groups, they hear about opportunities by word of mouth. They tell each other. In this case, they were drawn by the availability of well-paying jobs. And they also heard that the cost of living was pretty low in Springfield.

So soon, more and more Haitians arrived. And they were very attractive to employers because they had authorization to legally work in the United States. And what they have is something called temporary protected status.

Springfield benefits from this influx of Haitians. They have come to work. I heard from employers like Jamie McGregor, who runs an auto parts maker, that Haitians are coming to work on time. They’re reliable. They’re drama-free. And they’ve now come to represent 10 percent of his workforce.

The immigrants are working in a variety of capacities. Some of them are opening businesses and restaurants. They’re sending their kids to schools, schools that actually had been losing students because the city had been shrinking. And they’re leasing homes and apartments.

I met a landlord, in fact, who has been buying up some of these homes that had been delinquent on property taxes and went to auction and fixing them up to rent them to Haitians. And I took a spin around town with him. And I was able to see that there are many blocks where newly refurbished homes are sprucing up the neighborhood. They have manicured gardens, and they look a lot more cheerful than blocks where homes are still boarded up.

So you’re seeing, literally, a town come back to life very quickly, almost overnight.

The Story Behind ‘They’re Eating the Pets’

A false claim made by Donald Trump in the presidential debate has its origins in an Ohio town.

www.nytimes.com

Refugees revitalize American cities

Lewiston, Maine had a population at its peak of about 80,000 in the ‘60s, early ‘70s. But then, like many of these towns in the Midwest, it began to lose population, in large part because so many manufacturing jobs went overseas. Companies that operated in town shuttered, and people had to look for opportunity elsewhere.

In 2001, Somali refugees from across the United States began arriving en masse, drawn by cheap rents and safe school opportunities. The mayor asked them to stop coming. “Our city is maxed out financially, physically, and emotionally,” he wrote in an open letter. At that time, similar to today, antirefugee rhetoric emboldened xenophobia. A white supremacist group came to Lewiston to protest what they considered an invasion.

But Somalis saw a chance to open businesses in a town that had declined since the 1970s with the loss of the mill industry. Restaurants and shops took root in the decaying town center that residents referred to as “the combat zone.” It’s taken hard work and cooperative spirit, but Somalis today are integrated, and some, like Zamzam Mohamud, whom the mayor appointed to the school board, have become icons of community engagement. Crime has gone down, according to the police chief. A few years after Somalis began arriving, Inc. magazine named Lewiston one of the best places to do business in America.

St Louis has one of the largest Bosnian refugee populations in the country, many of them Muslims. They began arriving two decades ago and rebuilt their lives and brought prosperity. A local bank took a chance early on, providing loans to buy houses, invest in properties, and open restaurants, bakeries, repair shops, trucking businesses, and cleaning companies. Bosnian entrepreneurship has created jobs and opportunities for other Americans as well. The population of some 70,000 is credited with bolstering sagging school enrollment, invigorating the city center, revitalizing neighborhoods, and stabilizing the city’s decline.

Bosnians in Utica, N.Y., along with Somalis, Burmese, and other refugees stemmed the tide of population decline there and have contributed to such a high degree that the mayor of Utica continues to welcome refugees, including Syrians. A PBS NewsHour report highlights that “Utica’s commitment to resettle refugees isn’t purely humanitarian — its open-door policy is also a pioneering economic tool for revitalizing the Rust Belt.”

They are social workers, farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, doctors, teachers, engineers and others. They go to school, marry, raise families, and contribute to our ethos of hard work, striving, and resilience.

When we are welcoming, a national characteristic rooted in our founders’ search for freedom from persecution and tyranny, we strengthen the social and economic fabric of our towns and cities, and the moral character that has distinguished us. When we malign and shut out refugees, we are not only harming them, we are also limiting our own ability to prosper.

Revitalize?

Then why do they need government assistance? Why do they need taxpayer money?

If they're boosting the economy so much....why do the residents complain they can't get any help?

 

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I claim chinese people eat rice. I guess that makes me racist.

Don't be obtuse.

People have in my life claimed to me that Chinese people were eating stray cats on more than one occasion.

You know why that was? Because they were racists.

 

[variant]

Might actually solve the problem.

Props to Ana for being the only one to willingly agree to Trumps idea.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Ah, so that's the real issue here, someone poached some geese?

We agree that was a call about four Haitians killing and walking off with local wildlife, right?

Here's a story (I think about a year old, reposted) about a man stealing a cat in Springfield.

Now I'll concede that isn't a Haitian identified in the video. It's not clear who the man was. But apparently, people are stealing cats at night...and locals believe or claim to have seen Haitians doing it.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Props to Ana for being the only one to willingly agree to Trumps idea.

Well they can fight the Venezuelan prison gangs for condos and dogs.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

The way Haitians are being treated is better than the residents of Springfield.

Good thing Trump is here to take those Haitian refugees down a few pegs.

And they are residents of Springfield.