Further Reflections on the Haitians-Killing-and-Eating Cats Scandal
The Lying Press Has Stepped Forward to "Debunk" These Claims, But There Is Reason For Skepticism
Author’s note: additional thoughts can be found in this entry, found “In the Wee Hours,” a section containing shorter, more informal pieces and vignettes. This entry also contains an interesting development concerning this particular essay.
Allegations of Haitian migrants eating and killing cats have made national news, with vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance commenting about it recently. Mass media news outlets have since come out in force to “debunk” or discredit these claims. A close look at some of these articles are less than convincing.
A central focus of the attack against these claims stems from police camera footage of a black woman’s arrest in relation to her killing a cat. Ian Miles Cheong and other “influencers” on twitter wrongly identified the woman as Haitian. She is not Haitian, but a U.S. black. The incident also did not happen in Springfield, but across the state in Canton.
On the basis of this unforced error, the leftist rag The Daily Dot “debunked” the claim in this article. Leftists are using this article and others like it to dismiss such concerns out of hand as “racist,” and “baseless xenophobia.” Ohio based subreddits in particular are using these articles to dismiss any such discussion out of hand.
This article from the local paper, The Springfield News-Sun, has often been cited in other articles. The article begins with the statement “The Springfield Police Division said Monday morning they have received no reports related to pets being stolen and eaten” (emphasis added). The article then references this Facebook post which has received “tens of thousands of impressions.”
Note that the first sentence does not qualify a timeframe. Does it mean the police have never received any such complaints ever? Over the entire summer? That seems doubtful, at least in August when the Facebook post was probably made. Because the statement is not qualified by a timeframe, it lends itself to deception. Implicit in that statement could be “on Sunday” or “last week.” If the officer meant a limited time, say this weekend, and there were reports last Thursday, the statement is arguably still not technically false.
There are other tells indicating deception. Note this sentence from the same article: “Springfield Police said they were aware of the social media post but that this was ‘not something that’s on our radar right now.’” This indicates that the police are not interested in investigating the allegations in the Facebook post. Based on the harrowing stories from city council meetings, the Springfield Police Department is not focusing on arguably more pressing matters, including homeless or vagrant Haitians trespassing, stealing, and so on.
This article from Forbes is even more specious. The article begins by stating “The Springfield, Ohio, police department says it hasn’t received credible claims of Haitian immigrants abducting and eating pets. . .” (emphasis added). Appraisal of this clause requires consideration as to who determines what a “credible” claim is and why. Police, of course, make that determination. As stated, Springfield citizens have been complaining that the local police have been unresponsive and unsatisfactory regarding arguably more pressing matters. More worldly readers will exhibit the horseshoe theory on many different subjects, having views similar but not identical to the left on certain matters—and distrust at best—contempt at worse—for the police is one such matter. Most who have dealt with the police will know that, for everyday people, they are at best useless, and oftentimes worsen the situation. If someone turns away from his laptop at a café for 60 seconds and finds it stolen, most times police will barely fill out a police report. Based on this observable trend, this author can confidently assert that any reports of missing cats or other pets were at best reluctantly received. Almost certainly the officers would state that the cat probably wandered off or was hit with a car, and absent someone catching Haitians killing or eating cats red-handed, they cannot be bothered. Such scenarios, which are practically a certainty, do not mean that Haitians are not killing or eating cats. It means that the police do not care, and that the lying press is using such indifference to discredit what are likely very legitimate concerns. It is of note that language like “no credible reports” and “not on our radar” have been massaged to mean “no reports,” such as in this Rolling Stone article.
It may or may not be noteworthy that the subreddit for Springfield Ohio and other local subreddits are exemplary of the sort of leftist groupthink that has afflicted that cursed website since the implementation of Rule One and before. This moderator announcement is both amusing and distressing.
One thing of note is how shallow and predictable the NPC reddit-leftist script is. Some of the “hits” include “source,” “y’all,” “folks,” “racist,” “baseless,” “problematic” and others. It is interesting that this subreddit bans discussion on this matter, unless a poster utilizes particular sources that the moderator prefers. Facebook posts are out (even though Facebook generally requires people to use real names). Of course, the local Faceberg group has banned the discussion of such matters because of “racism” and “xenophobia.” First-hand, eye-witness accounts at city hall meetings and what not are out. Trusted news sources are in, but, as the above discussion indicates, the lying press is almost assuredly using sleight-of-hand tricks to dismiss these allegations as “patently false” when it is not at all clear that is the case. That a local police department states it has received no reports that it deems “credible” does not mean such reports have not been received, particularly when the same police department reveals such a dismissive attitude with the comment any such concerns are “not on our radar.” None of this proves that these allegations are false.
It is possible that the allegations in question could ultimately prove to be without merit. But when moderators on Faceberg, reddit, and elsewhere expressly ban such topics, demanding only particular kinds of sources when those “approved” sources are obviously resorting to sleight-of-hand tricks in order to dismiss such concerns, people are right to be highly skeptical. This is particularly so given what we know about the Haitian populace and the history of that people and that dark, evil place. 67 average IQ, history of cannibalism that has again been repeated quite recently. Right now, if one had to bet, smart money wagers that ultimately some of these allegations will have been proven true, despite cries of them being “baseless,” or “debunked,” or “racist.”