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Prominent conservatives are blaming recent immigration from Haiti after a woman in Ohio was arrested for allegedly eating a cat. 

The only problem? The woman has lived in America for the past six years. 

The allegations arose over the weekend after right-wing users on social media discovered that a 27-year-old woman was charged last month with injuring animals, prohibitions concerning companion animals, and disorderly conduct.

The woman, Canton resident Allexis Telia Ferrell, reportedly “stomped on the cat’s head to kill the animal before eating it in a residential area in front of multiple people” on Aug. 16, according to Fox News.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if theres one thing conservatives love to do, its racism.

thats it. theyll take any seedy story that happens to highlight a minority and boost it up as if its happening on every street corner. cuz racism.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember an interesting story about immigrants coming up from Central America for jobs in meat processing plants.

The area was a typical republican stronghold of small town America.

Anyhow, the story was mostly an interview with the Sheriff in the area, who had to deal with constant reports of “demonic sacrifice” because the immigrants raised goats and slaughtered them- like they always had done.

Which, there sheriff’s tone was “this is all very awkward and it’s stupid that we have to deal with this.” He made a point that it was all legal and “ now within code,” (guessing there was some building code type stuff,)

In any case I found it odd that he didn’t mention that demonic sacrifice wasn’t illegal either.

In any case, people will believe all sorts of bullshit about “others”.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[–] rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This certainly does sound unusual, but having grown up and lived in rural conservative places essentially my entire middle aged life, white locals seem to tolerate a lot of animal abuse that is "executed" by their own. And nothing, or very little, is said 😿 Lots of stories of what happened to trailer park cats.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And Kristy Noem even bragged about murdering her dog in a book as if it were some sort of selling point for conservatives.

Excellent example.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

oh, god... I had forgotten this little slice of insanity. republican "flood the field with shit" tactics at their best - its impossible to keep track of it all.

simple solution...?

  1. disregard what they say
  2. watch what they do
  3. vote against an "r" till the end of time.

make the sobs form a new party to try and escape the stench of the gops rotting carcass.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Report about someone killing a cat: ALL IMMIGRANTS BAD

Actual footage of hundreds of school shootings: ...

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

</investigation>

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~because~ ~they’re~ ~racist~ ~and~ ~so~ ~is~ ~their~ ~audience~

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

The footage also caught the attention of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk, who argued that Haitians were reportedly eating people’s pets all across the country.

Many such reports 🙄

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Humans are so strange. They will eat an adorable cow, but condemn eating an adorable cat. Meanwhile they allow their own kind to commit atrocities against other humans without blinking an eye.

I really want to be a cat.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Raising obligate or facultative carnivores for meat isn't efficient. That's one reason why we don't have domesticated lions and bears.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

I wouldn’t mine a lion. If it was nice.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We broke the aurochs for food, and man delights in spilling its own blood.

The cats did nothing wrong.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Besides being a significant predator that kills for entertainment and can decimate entire populations of wildlife.

But they’re so cute. 🥰

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are indeed very cute, heres one of the ones I have right now.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

That’s not even big enough for a kabob. 🥰

[–] Revonult@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cats: Fluffy

Most cows: Not fluffy

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair to Charlie Kirk, he tried to eat a cat as well but couldn't because of his widdle mouf... so technically he never ate a cat (as far as we know publicly).

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can confirm with absolute certainty that Charlie Kirk has never eaten a pussy in his entire life.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you guys are thinking of Ben Shapiro.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

As far as I know, Ben's the only one who put out a statement about being unable to satisfy his wife (back when WAP was the hot new thing).

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

They have the electoral college locked down and know they’ll win unless people turn out to vote in untold numbers. So they’re saying any stupid shit conceivable to troll and distract

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This person is in fact a US citizen.

Edit: From the article,

And a simple search reveals that Ferrell has been a registered voter in Ohio for the past six years.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

First, they came for the cats, and I said nothing because I was not a cat.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Some people are really fucking stupid.

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