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How did an easily debunked story of immigrants abducting cats and dogs become a bigger source of outrage than neverending school shootings? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When Trump brought the cat and dog thing up at the debate, I thought he was cooked and that nobody in the right frame of mind, not even the average chud, would believe it, but the next day people at my work were talking about how true it is and that it needs to be stopped. It's amazing and scary how easily people are quick to believe something without a shred of evidence.

Even my mom texted me a mugshot of a woman who was arrested for killing and trying to eat a cat. But when I replied that it happened in a completely different city and the suspect was a US born citizen with mental issues, she said that the suspect was actually Haitian, it happened in Springfield and the police are pretending it happened somewhere else to make their town look good.

I don't even know how to respond to a take like that. Just a year or so ago she was happy to see Alex Jones getting canceled for threatening families of the kids who died at Sandy Hook. Now she's believing and forwarding Jones-grade conspiracy shit, and she couldn't care less about school shootings anymore. It's depressing as fuck.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 9 months ago (19 children)

Foreigners eating cats and dogs is one of the biggest and most widely believed conspiracies in like every western country and has been for the last hundreds of years. What did your grandmother think was in wanton soup?

Nothing Trump says should surprise you. In a culture like America's, a man like Trump is not an aberration but an over conformist. The chuds are all able to instantly able to believe Trumpian nonsense because it isn't just Trump telling them the lie, it is their entire culture.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But there are cultures where eating dogs or cats is more socially acceptable right? Like there are plenty of videos on youtube of people going to certain areas of vietnam and eating dog. I don't have a negative reaction to the idea or anything, if you eat animals at all, I don't see why dogs are something special to be protected. I just want to know if this is real or some kind of propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

There were, but afaik most cultures that did have gradually adopted the view that cats and dogs are not food animals. I think it's partially due to the spread of western cultural norms around pets and partially due to folks having more disposable income for pets.

Plus, euros have traditionally eaten cat and dog among the impoverished. Cat was euphemistically called "roof rabbit" as a dressed cat carcass wasn't much different from a rabbit carcass. The big give away was rabbit doesn't taste like rancid piss from the ammonia.

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