Two Iowa newspaper columnists recently attacked as false Donald Trump’s debate assertion that some Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have eaten pets. Each cited local officials’ denials as proof such has not happened.
The writers are Todd Dorman of the Cedar Rapids Gazette and Des Moines Register veteran Rekha Basu. Both scrupulously toe the liberal/left line.
Neither expressed concern for pets’ welfare, or revulsion at the concept of eating them. Instead, their energies were devoted to tawdry political aggression. To them, the revolting matter was only another vehicle for tiresome Trump hatred.
I suppose it’s ridiculous to expect compassion for supposedly tortured animals from bloodless ideologues who champion murdering millions of unborn human babies each year. As they’ve already accepted that greater atrocity, they cannot be expected to now protest the lesser one – horrific, though it be.
That people from foreign shores sometimes have appetites native-born Americans find stomach-turning is indisputable. I’ve heard of an American missionary whose African hosts offered him a plate of squirming bugs.
Youtube features videos of Chinese street salesmen hawking roasted rats on sticks. Another video captures a New York city pushcart vendor selling cooked guinea pig flesh. And in some nations, dog meat is favored.
Barack Obama once admitted to eating dog meat when a child in Indonesia. Gateway Pundit posted an excerpt from his “Dreams From My Father” autobiography:
“With [stepfather] Lolo, I learned to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)…One day soon, [Lolo] promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
Now, the Springfield pet-eating claims may ultimately prove unfounded.
But journalists rushing to accept Springfield authorities’ version is irresponsible. Not long ago, the same liberals boasted of distrusting officials and “speaking truth to power.” Apparently, when leaders mouth rhetoric to liberals’ fancy, distrust vanishes.
Officials are not invariably reliable. Safeguarding the local image from negative publicity is among leaders’ ambitions. Local economic interests are involved. Businesses won’t remain in or relocate to areas if word spreads that there’s turmoil underway, and tax-paying residents who are able to flee will do so. Potential new ones will stay away.
(Aurora, Colorado residents presently face migration-related criminal horrors, themselves.)
Lack of caring when foreigners violate American laws and customs is a product of the foolish notion that all cultures are morally equal, and that expecting newcomers to assimilate is racist.
Unfortunately, there are undeveloped world regions in which foul practices are routine. Wife-beating is accepted in some cultures. And there are immigrants now in America who perpetrate “Honor killings” and female genital mutilations.
The pet-eating allegations are plausible. That does not mean the vile criminality they assert was actual.. But dismissing them because of political prejudice and city leaders’ denials, as Dorman, Basu, and other media Kamala supporters have done, does dirt to the public interest.
