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Debunking the Absurd 'Immigrants Eating Pets' Conspiracy | A Modern Moral Panic

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Internet sleuths have been known to solve the coldest of cold cases, produce family members that were previously unknown to one another, and catch cheaters in real time - yet despite the majority of Republican media being intensely focused on the matter for the past week, right-wing conspiracy theorists have yet to come up with ONE credible case of an immigrant eating a pet in Ohio.

But despite zero proof this is happening, and overwhelming evidence it isn't, conservatives are refusing to let it go. Why is that? America has a long history of moral panics, lynch mobs, and attacking the culinary customs of new populations.

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Internet sleuths have been known to solve the coldest of cold cases, produce family members that were previously unknown to one another, and catch cheaters in real time - yet despite the majority of Republican media being intensely focused on the matter for the past week, right-wing conspiracy theorists have yet to come up with ONE credible case of an immigrant eating a pet in Ohio.

But despite zero proof this is happening, and overwhelming evidence it isn't, conservatives are refusing to let it go. Why is that? America has a long history of moral panics, lynch mobs, and attacking the culinary customs of new populations.

  continue reading

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