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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    I wouldn’t call it blatantly racist, it’s obviously biased coming from someone of Haitian heritage. But I think they over-sell it.

    Your average American likely doesn’t think about Haiti at all, positively or negatively.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, if you asked Trump supporters to find Haiti on a map, I’m guessing a single-digit percentage is getting it right. Their prejudice towards immigrants is not some calculated, historically-informed position. It’s a basal fear of the other.