Rolling Stone Warns Right-Wingers Are Pushing Absurd Lie About Haitian Cannibal Invasion

There's political chaos in Haiti right now. The United States just evacuated personnel from the Haitian embassy because it is unsafe for them to be there. There's heightened gang violence led by a man nicknamed "Barbecue." How'd he get that nickname? Probably from a two-year-old video that's been going around of gang members biting into human flesh, probably as a campaign to scare rivals. One armed group went by the name, "Cannibal Army."

NBC News already did a very lengthy piece about how right-wingers are "smearing Haitian migrants" as cannibals. This comes after news that the Biden administration has flown 320,000 illegal immigrants into the country from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Republicans have pounced, saying that President Joe Biden is importing criminals.

Elon Musk and conservative influencers have spread unverified claims to millions, smearing Haitian migrants as cannibals as they endure deep uncertainty about the future of their country and family members still there. https://t.co/iZCjMdenmu
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 14, 2024

"Conservative influencers" have been sharing a video that NBC News acknowledges exists. But it was just a little cannibalism to make a point. Americans shouldn't be worried that Biden has been secretly flying in cannibals from Haiti. The AP even fact-checked the story about the flights and found it false, because they weren't secret, just "enigmatic" and "lacking in transparency."

Now Rolling Stone is following NBC News' lead (not a good idea) and reporting that right-wingers like Elon Musk are pushing an absurd lie about a cannibal invasion.

Right-Wingers Are Pushing An Absurd Lie About Haitian Cannibal Invasion

More: https://t.co/w7GK74GBD4 pic.twitter.com/47LbR7Z5wr
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) March 16, 2024

Miles Klee writes that some on the far-right are involved in a "long-running quest" to sow xenophobia among the American public. By long-running, they mean when President Donald Trump called MS-13 gang members animals, and Democrats and the press went around screaming that Trump had called all immigrants animals, and even MS-13 gang members have a "spark of humanity" that must be respected.

KiIIers, gangs, and cannibals are ruling the streets of Haiti right now.

4,000 gang members just broke out of jail.

The government's on the brink of collapse.

Well… it's a good thing that Biden recently instituted a policy that makes it easier for Haitians to immigrate…
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 11, 2024

It's far-right xenophobia that we don't want Haitian gang members flown in on "parole flights" on the taxpayer's dime.

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