Fabricated Claims Against Haitians in Springfield Must Be Challenged

The accusations that Haitians in Springfield are harming the town’s pets fall squarely in the tradition of the 1994 Rwandan genocide perpetrators calling ethnic Hutus and their Tutsi allies “cockroaches” or Adolph Hitler accusing Jews of threatening non-Jews in Germany.

This false and dangerous speech demonizes whole groups of people and inflames its audience’s fears.