Behind the vicious Trump-Vance attacks on Haitian immigrants is a long history of making the people of Haiti pay for the audacity of their revolution.

Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
    172·
    2 months ago

    Considering most Americans don’t know the history of Haiti, nor could even point it out on a map. So I doubt many are offended

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      That is the great thing about hate it doesn’t really require specific knowledge. Most of the people who lynched black folks in the south didn’t have a lot of specific understanding of the cultures or history of the people they hated they had a sort of diffuse hatred based on nothing real. Assuming that historical issues aren’t a root of anything because the rabble doesn’t specifically understand why they are supposed to hate someone is just a basic misunderstanding of how people work.

      It’s like thinking the smell of shit doesn’t come from the turd because the people smelling it can’t actually see it.