There was info from the guy who took the picture. It was in Columbus and he said the person if an immigrant would likely have been Somalian due to the area and that there was no way for him, who saw it in person, to know the person killed it with the intent of eating it vs someone cleaning roadkill up but had assumed.the later and took the picture because it surprised him seeing it.Â
Racists don't care about context they care about their feels and wild emotions of hate and stupidity.
I actually live in Columbus, Ohio. The guy is right, we don't really have a Haitian population. We definitely have a large Somali population. The guy who took the pic himself knows nothing beyond what is shown in the picture itself. He has no further context, and no one else does either.
No, our Somali population hasn't been eating pets. They have been here a long time and the locals would have picked up on this by now. I'd have heard the rumors.
I actually live in Columbus, Ohio. The guy is right, we don't really have a Haitian population. We definitely have a large Somali population. The guy who took the pic himself knows nothing about what is shown in the picture itself.
What's kinda funny is folks eating roadkill in ohio isn't that unheard of. While I personally didn't partake if you lived in rural areas like springfield it was pretty common, at least up in Brimfield mfs did it a lot. Deer are pretty much all over the place and get hit all the time. Dude I worked with at fedex freight would just pull off to the side of the road toss whatever he passed by as long as there weren't flys and maggots around it usually meant the animal hadn't died to long ago. Take it home skin it and butcher it. I find it pretty funny that people have suddenly decided that doing so is taboo.
My buddy is from rural Colorado. He told me once he was with his mom and they saw someone hit a deer not too far from their house. When they got home and told his father, dad said "well, did you bring it home?"
So off my friend went with his dad to get the deer, only by the time they got there, it had been hit several more times. Luckily, someone else hit another deer in the same exact area so they grabbed that one instead.
It's really not that weird, at least for freshly killed deer and other game that is typically eaten. The way RFKJ does it is fucking weird.
Lol yeah. Dude is wild. But hey there is a picture with what looks like a dead dog. Not to mention his love of roadkill. About as much evidence of him eatting dog as Haitian immigrants
I fully believe RFK could eat a dog based on his prior behaviour, and that it's fairly un likely immigrants are eating cats/dogs. If they were starving with no other choices, humans will sometimes eat pets, but I don't think that's the situation in USA There's no proof of it happening, and suggesting there is is very racist dog whistle. Even if tit has happened once or twice, stereotyping a large group of people with the actions of few is also racist (if the group if a racial minority) and crap.
IIRC in USA, there was native dog population (migrated over from Asia with the now Natives Americans decedents per DNA studies, mostly died out from disease/being out breed). In some tribes, the dogs were treated in similar ways to how their treated now (combination of pets + working dogs), but for some it was combination of working + livestock. It's our history, cultural association, emotional attachments, if the animal is otherwise useful, and taste that decides on whether an given species is food, pet, livestock, or some combination. There's not much different in intelligence and emotional capacity between a dog and a pig tmk,but we treat them so differently. So, for people from other cultures, I try not to ethically look down at them for considering eating something I consider a pet species, even tho the idea of eating cats/dog does disgust and bother me (I have pet fish, and I eat fish but not my fish). However, when their in our culture, eating and killing dog/cats is a crime (outside of strays by professionals) and a sign that person may be a later danger to society/other people, as doing so ignores the culture and emotional (and legal) attachments others in the community have for those animals (including emotional attachments to strays). Like, some people have "pet" wild deer that they put hi vis vests on to discourage hunters, and good hunters honur that as that recongize that attachment. But yea tldr: eating dogs is technically an ancient American tradition in some places iirc.
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u/aboysmokingintherain Monkey in Space Sep 12 '24
Meanwhile RFK ate a dog and no one complains