Right-wingers this week spread a racist, pixelated Facebook meme that appears to only serve the purpose of stoking hate and driving turnout among the base: white folks threatened by change and people of color.
This week’s viral post from the Republican Party? A screenshot from Meta’s flagship web property claiming that someone’s neighbor’s daughter’s friend — that’s not a joke but the actual attribution — had “lost her cat” to immigrants from Haiti, who it was said had eaten the animal. That was sufficient for former President Donald Trump and his campaign to fire up their racism machine and claim that the good, majority-white people of Springfield, Ohio, were being terrorized by 20,000 immigrants from Haiti who had recently settled there, legally and with authorization to work (revitalizing what had been an economically depressed town, per local employers).
