Subtitle: Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This isn’t stochastic terrorism. This is just terrorism. They are trying to terrorize the Haitians into leaving Springfield:

    In December, a Springfield man was sentenced to 20 years in federal jail for hate crimes after attacking eight Haitians earlier in 2023. Last year, the local Haitian church was broken into and damaged twice. Longtime Black residents of Springfield have reported being verbally abused when walking on the city’s streets, having been confused with members of the Haitian community.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      The stochastic terrorism is the wild claims infrahumanising certain groups on social media. Then someone decides to act on those claims, and the people who posted them say “I had no idea that would happen”.

      Rinse and repeat until you’ve made the world worse, then die with lots of money.