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| LegitHyperbole said: It's certainly brought attention. So what's the grievances of the people if it's not cats being eaten. Talk about muddying the water. Christ. |
Because there was a real story of a US citizen eating their neighbor's cat. She was a black lady, so she could get roped into the racist rhetoric.
Fact check: Ohio woman accused of eating cat is from Canton, not from Springfield
The best lies have an element of truth in them. It is pretty easy to look up lady eating cat, and find a picture of black lady.
People do a lot of weird crap, and if you can start associating a group of people with some kind of weird behavior, then it's a lot easier to subjugate them. It's basically "look at how weird and unamerican these people are. Why are they here?"
The vast majority of people talking about Springfield have never even to Ohio, let alone Springfield.
The rhetoric is frequently overblown, and worse is that it elicits a reaction in the complete wrong direction.
A lot of people eat geese. If you're poor and struggling to get food on the table, chances are higher you're going to try getting food in ways that are more illegal.
And rather than trying to fix the problem of people being poor, the rhetoric more often than not pushes people to punish others for doing what they had to.
