GOP congressman tweets racist rant about Haitian immigrants
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The now-deleted post by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., also repeated false claims the migrants are "eating pets" and called Haiti "the nastiest country in the western hemisphere."
  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    2 months ago

    “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP,” he said

    But they’re not suing Biden and Harris who are, you know, our President and VP. They’re suing YOUR candidates because of THEIR dangerous rhetoric.

    • hotspur@lemmy.ml
      10·
      2 months ago

      He really does. I’d say coincidence… but the probability is that it’s more intentional than accidental.

        • hotspur@lemmy.ml
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yeah those are the strongest part, but very well supported by the shiny dome, gray stubble and classic Hugo boss grey of his jacket.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    “Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP,” he said, referring to Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Trump and Vance, respectively.

    “All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th,” the post concluded. That would be the day Trump and Vance would be sworn into office if they win November’s election.

    Let’s see what we have here:

    1. Negative generalization about an entire nationality.
    2. Repeating the obvious lie about eating pets long after it was debunked
    3. Blaming Haitians for a shitty streaming sevice.
    4. Not knowing how to spell Vodou
    5. Racist stereotypes about Vodou
    6. Not Knowing the distinction between Voodoo and Vodou (presumably)
    7. Hating immigrants because the country they come from is “nasty”
    8. Thinks country is nasty, hates people for seeking sanctuary from it.
    9. Slapstick? What, were the three stooges Haitian?
    10. Thinks all black people are in gangs.
    11. Look at them thinking they’re real people, signing fancy paperwork like they can read.
    12. Thinks Trump is President.
    13. Thinks Vance is VP, when even the insane view that Trump won in 2020 would make Pence the VP.
    14. Disapproves of any accountability for Trump (no surprise there)
    15. Thinks all black people are thugs.
    16. Those immigrants need to learn their place.
    17. Telling an entire ethnic group to leave the country before the next administration is in power, which sounds a hell of a lot like an ethnic cleansing threat.
    18. Complete disregard for that whole election thing that’s coming up (see 11 & 12)
    19. Thinks deleting a post will make it go away.
    20. Does all this, isn’t even the worst situation about Republican politicians posting racist shit online this week.
    21. Failed to stop Michael Myers, James Bond and the Puma Man.
    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      2 months ago

      You can add to that this congressman is from Louisiana and doesn’t understand the deep roots of the Haitian culture in New Orleans.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    And yet, if I warned GOP congressmen to ‘get out of our country,’ I’d be arrested for making terroristic threats.

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    He sure looks like a colonizer to me. Maybe he should be deported. We’ll probably have to butcher him to send the appropriate proportions back to their respective countries of origin, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

  • hotspur@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    CI hadn’t realized this was Clay Higgins. If you haven’t heard what this clown sounds like, you’re in for a treat.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 months ago

    If the US would stop intervening in Haiti and let them run their own country, maybe so many of them wouldn’t have to apply for asylum in the US.

    • mashbooq@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      The question of why specific immigrants are here isn’t relevant to the topic of how they should be treated once they’re legally here. Some are here bc of bad US foreign policy, others aren’t, but all should be treated with respect.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      2 months ago

      Best to look at history. The US hasn’t really intervened in Haiti that often and when we did it was a failure. Many different groups have tried. Currently, it’s Kenyans

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        2 months ago

        We also blew our chance to support Haiti back when they first revolted because we didn’t want our slaves to get any ideas.

        As always, American Ideals are based on a lie.

        Haiti was punished by the West for daring to fight against their oppressors, and we all, collectively, never stopped trying to crush them.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt

        Now they have the failed state which the West absolutely caused, and scum in this country blame them for the situation they were put in.

        • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
          51·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s great you blame the US when it was a French colony and the only Caribbean country that had to buy their way out of slavery.