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No, the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are not eating the cats and the dogs and the pets, according to the local police chief. As a matter of fact, they have committed no crimes at all.
No, the rumor started from a psycho-lady in nearby Canton, who was arrested for eating a cat. The story actually has nothing to do with Haitians.
Actually, the Haitians are eating the geese out of the Springfield city park, which is OK because geese poop a lot. No, the geese are being eaten in Columbus, not Springfield.
After Trump made his memorable statement in the debate, both sides suddenly became intensely interested in the culinary habits of Haitians in Springfield and its environs. But they are all missing the point. This is a classic case where Trump should be taken figuratively not literally.
It doesn't matter whether pets are being eaten in Springfield or any other town. It doesn't matter whether the exotic gastronomes are Haitian immigrants or psycho-ladies. What matters is the incredible disruption that 20,000 Haitians, whom the federal government sent to Springfield, Ohio (pop. 58,000), are causing.
Haitians eating the pets in Springfield, Ohio, is a synecdoche for the disruption to social services, crime, schools, housing, employment, municipal finances, and ordinary life caused by the 15 million illegal aliens dumped in America by the Biden-Harris administration. Trump merely put it in memorable terms that everyone can understand.
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You get 10 points for being correct, and a 3-point bonus for using that word.
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Mrs. Hardy, who taught my 12-grade English class, would be proud of me for remembering that figure of speech.
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This was where I learned that word. If you haven’t seen it, it’s quite an experience. Be prepared to have to think about it for a while afterward.
But to the point of the post: you said it exactly and perfectly. And synecdoche is exactly what it is.
And it has apparently worked. More people (than just John Derbyshire) are now talking about what actually happens when you combine multiple cultures irresponsibly, with no thought to any part of all that we know from reading history and studying human nature. You get mostly chaos, destruction, strife, and violence. (Not to mention dead cats.)
And yes, it certainly does sometimes have to do with race, as well as every other kind of difference between peoples - which is the point - but it has little to nothing to do with racism.
Derbyshire’s idea (if I have him right) is that cultural mixing can only work if it’s on a maximum of roughly 90/10. 90% dominant existing culture and at absolute most 10% new incoming culture. And even that has to then hold for a while while the 10% adjusts to the realities of their new situation and assimilates. 10% means there are not enough of them to establish a beachhead and then attempt to “coexist” within the host culture, which will lead to endless strife. They will instead adopt most of the ways of their host culture, in order to survive, while hopefully lending a bit of their own culture into the mix, keeping the host culture healthy and interesting. This is the way to grow a healthy garden, a healthy forest, and healthy human cultures.
The only reason this crazy induced mass migration we are experiencing has not already long since been stopped by the natural reaction of a people being invaded, the reaction of State governments, and regional governments, and local governments, and social organizations, and finally individual people, when they are threatened, is that the powers that are effecting all this, whoever it is behind the Obama and now the Biden administrations, have made it essentially illegal to complain about or notice what is happening right before our eyes.
Maybe this BS has finally met a tipping point by President Trumps remarks.
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Scott Adams, as usual, has an excellent insight when he describes Trump as "directionally correct" on this matter.
(sin-EK-doh-kee. I'm obsessed with the pronunciation thanks to the book I'm currently recording.)
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Yeah, but.......people ( low-information voters) are mostly talking about how Trump and Vance repeated a stupid rumor without actually checking it out. Have you seen the memes? Yeah, a lot of folks vote on what they saw in the latest meme.
Those LIV's and the people who "haven't decided yet" who they are going to vote for. You know - the ones that will decide the election. It's not us and it's not the "woke" or radicals. It's the "undecideds", who make up their minds as they walk into the booth or lick the stamp on their mail-in ballot.
If you are running for president, maybe you should think about a quick Google. Or getting your minions to do that for you.
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