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Just hearing this month old banger:
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Was there now proof that they were eating the pets of people that live in Ohio?
Stray cats and dogs are common bushmeat in Haiti. Haitians in Miami in the 80s were nicknamed “the cat eaters” for that very reason. Furthermore, the sacrifice of small animals for voodoo rituals, endemic to Haiti and very common, is well documented.
Why on earth is it strange to think that recent immigrants of little to no education would continue their cultural practices of their homeland until they are properly acculturated?
As far as I’m concerned the burden of proof is on the people saying it’s not happening.
Strange how there hasn't been any evidence of it then that I can recall.
Nicknames from 4 decades ago are not evidence.
It can be fun to assert things with no proof, but we shouldn't delude ourselves that it's somehow the more correct approach
Common cultural practice over many years isn’t evidence of something?
If I told you that I saw a group of afghans in my town and one of them was wearing a burkha, you would automatically assume I’m lying for clout?
That’s very interesting.
Common cultural practice in the US? Nope. Citation needed.
It's common cultural practice for people to cut the hands off of thieves, that also doesn't happen in the US to the same degree it does elsewhere. Terrible line of reasoning that is. What's very interesting is your epistemic standards for believing something.
Multiple, unrelated people at different times all complaining about a well documented and common cultural practice by a foreign group that suddenly emerged in one area in very great numbers?
Yeah, a normal reaction to that is to think there’s probably at least a bit of validity to the claim.
Automatically discounting that as false is evidence of liberal brainworms or motivated reasoning. You think magic dirt is enough to transform the cultural practices of literal hordes of foreign peasants in an instant upon arrival?
How on earth can you believe that? It strikes me as intensely autistic.
First, they aren’t unrelated. The Twitter trend has seen to that.
Second, it’s not well-documented. If it were, you could show rates of dog or cat consumption in Haiti rather than just asserting that they’re really high. Dog consumption appears highest in East Asia; I’d be willing to believe that Haiti has flown under the radar, but I have yet to see the evidence.
@cartman and I cannot tell where you got your prior that Haitians are total dog gourmets. If it’s because of voodoo, show me dog sacrifice numbers. If it’s because of an epithet tossed around in the 80s, tell me why you think it’s particularly accurate today. Surely you can do better than repeating “well documented!”
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