JD Vance spreads debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets
Using dehumanizing language to describe immigrants is nothing new for former President Donald Trump or vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Accusations of immigrants being criminals, being rapists or poisoning the blood of the nation have become common currency. But this week, the rhetoric seemed to hit a new low: the allegation that immigrants eat pets.
Vance, who represents Ohio in the U.S. Senate, spread a debunked claim about Haitian migrants living in the city of Springfield, Ohio, on Monday, accusing them of abducting pets and eating them.
The claim, which local police say is baseless, was made by far-right activists, local Republicans and neo-Nazis before being picked up by Vance. A well-known advocate for the Haitian community says she received a wave of racist harassment in the aftermath of Vance’s post. [Continue reading…]
Blood Tribe's Drake Berentz (former Marine) returns to the scene of his pitiful hate parade in Springfield, Ohio, to deliver hateful remarks about migrants.
CW: graphic language
He then threatened the city, saying, "Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you… https://t.co/UG44tgmedJ pic.twitter.com/2ICLuGA8yd
— Kate Ross (@kate_ross_) August 28, 2024
The Columbus Dispatch reports:
The nation’s heartland has long been a hotbed for hate groups, [Jeff] Tischauser [senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)] told The Dispatch.
At the end of 2023, Ohio was home to 50 such groups with varying ideologies scattered across the state.
They include the Nazi Blood Tribe, which launched an Ohio chapter last year, as well as several white nationalist groups, five chapters of the Proud Boys, a few anti-LGBTQ+ groups, and 21 militias or antigovernment organizations. [Continue reading…]
ADL:
Blood Tribe members are heavily invested in hyper-masculinity; the group does not allow female members. Its social media accounts uses masculinity-themed images and memes to promote and elevate Blood Tribe, while denigrating rival extremist groups, such as the Proud Boys, as weak and effeminate.
Blood Tribe presents itself as a hardcore white supremacist group, rejecting white supremacists who lean into more palatable “optics” by eschewing swastikas and other explicit neo-Nazi symbols. As the group’s Ohio chapter posted in May 2023, referring to the radicalization pipeline, “We’re the end of the pipeline type group.” As such, Blood Tribe tends to recruit from among people already committed to white supremacy rather than people new to the movement. [Continue reading…]