Racist Migrant Voodoo Panic (E294)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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A false smear about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio killing pets made its way from a fourth-hand Facebook rumor to Donald Trump’s lips during his televised debate with Kamala Harris. Despite the fact that there is no evidence for this claim and local authorities have explicitly denied that it’s true, Republicans have enthusiastically promoted the libel in order to demonize Haitians who are legally living and working in the town. This promotion includes AI generated images of anthropomorphic cats in tactical gear. We discuss how this false claim spread, the background of recent anti-immigrant sentiment in JD Vance’s home state, a historical example of how American anti-immigrant conspiracy theories inspired deadly violence, and how the current smears are leading to innocent people being threatened right now. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: http://www.patreon.com/QAA Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Nick Sena. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.SOURCES Bloody Mondayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Monday Harper, Leslie Ann. "Lethal Language: The Rhetoric of George Prentice and Louisville’s Bloody Monday." Ohio Valley History 11, no. 3 (2011): 24-43. The Louisville Journal Thu, Jul 26, 1855https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal/47743585/ Orozco, Jessica. County: No evidence of August claim that Haitians took geese at Springfield park, Springfield News-Sun.https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/county-no-evidence-of-august-claim-that-haitians-took-geese-at-springfield-park/NFRGJNURHREGHB32HBC6UKZJWQ/ Jordan, Miriam. How an Ohio town landed in the middle of the immigration debate, The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/springfield-ohio-school-bus-crash-haiti-immigrants.html Thalen, Mikael. Redditor dragged into migrant pet-eating fears thanks to photo of a man with a goose lashes out at JD Vance, The Daily Dot.https://www.dailydot.com/debug/redditor-migrant-pet-eating-fears-goose-photo-jd-vance/ D’Angelo, Alec. The origins of Trump’s Ohio Pets Conspiracy, New Lines Magazine.https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-origins-of-trumps-ohio-pets-conspiracy/Caputo, M.A. ‘Trump blew it’: Cat scratch fever on the debate stage, The Bulwark.https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-blew-it-cat-scratch-fever-on

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0:36.0	I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QA podcast, episode 294, racist migrant voodoo panic.
0:42.0	As always, we are your host Julian Fields for racist migrant voodoo panic.
0:42.8	As always, we are your host Julian Field,
0:45.0	live Ecar, and Travis View.
0:47.5	On September 10th, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump met
0:50.8	for a presidential candidate debate moderated and broadcast by ABC News.
0:56.0	During the debate, Trump said something that may have sounded odd to members of the audience
1:01.2	that were not familiar with online right-wing rhetoric.
1:04.4	He claimed falsely that immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats and dogs.
1:10.5	And worse than that, Trump said, they weren't just eating stray animals.
1:14.0	They are eating people's pets.
1:16.0	In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats,
1:22.0	they're eating, they're eating the cats of the people that live there and this is what's
1:28.4	happening in our country. They're eating the dogs they're eating the cats they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets.
1:35.6	Yeah.
1:36.6	It's like a very racist, Dr. Zeus phone.
1:39.2	There's no way to satirize this country anymore. I mean it is beyond a joke.
1:50.0	So the first thing I feel like I need to get out of the way is that there's no evidence this is true and the police department of Springfield issued a statement which explicitly denied that is true.
2:01.0	In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city,
2:05.6	we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being
2:09.8	harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.
2:13.4	God, it's like we really are just, nothing's changed.
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