the old wise tale
Old wives tale. There’s nothing wise about it…
Because racism is learned. It’s the same tired tropes they heard from their parents. Today’s racists are racist against Central American and Caribbean immigrants. Twenty years ago it was the Middle East. In the 1970s it was southeast Asians. Before that were… everybody else. This is America. There’s always some new cultural group to demonize.
I remember a comedian who once described it like you did saying America is just one big game of tag your it.
That’s a clever and funny way of putting it. It’s just one stupid moral panic after the other, and racism is frequently featured.
The “immigrant” group to shit on changes every so often where I live.
But when it changes the SAME rumors get saddled on to the new group.
“X group eats pets, better be careful around them.”
“Y group will take your dog and butcher it. Better be watchful”
It’s an ancient fascist trope.
Well as a lesbian about eating cats i that pussy taste good.
Your question is confusing, but I think the answer is…
Racist people heard something. Racist people think it’s a fact. Racist people extrapolate from that thing they heard and assume the extrapolation is also a fact.
ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?
I don’t understand that sentence.
