Worth a watch. Good interviews with locals.
Some towns are getting 50% bigger as Haitians move in.
Why is this happening, and why aren’t we allowed to talk about it?
This also you?
I have not been occupying right spaces online. Don’t have the time / energy. And I don’t really put in the effort to try to change anyone’s mind Online because people are change resistant online.
But
I do argue politely IRL for things that would help. Better infrastructure, trains, good jobs, love everyone, let people do what they want as long as it doesn’t hurt others, transparency in money and government, and make good things in America. Still unlikely to change minds but at least making friendships with people different from me.
I guess my overall thesis would be: online discourse is has proven unproductive. I’m tired of reading vitriol and “other side is so dumb wow.”
Disappointed to see the echoiness of the echo chamber on Lemmy
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You guys don’t even try to hide the racism and xenophobia anymore do you?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’ve gone full hood-off.
coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What is racist or xenophobic about any of this?
Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Alright so I don’t care enough or have the time to go through this hour long video and break it down point by point, but I will talk about the opening minutes. This guy, with seemingly zero self awareness, approaches a group of people with his cell phone out saying “hey, I want to ask you some questions about [insert your assumed nationality here].” In this case Haitians who have spent the last several weeks being harassed, vilified, and threatened on a national media broadcast level that they neither asked for or likely know how to handle. My reaction to that if I were them would be “no thank you, please leave me alone”. This appears to be what they do - they politely said no. Then the camera man proceeds to paint them in a negative light immediately for it “why won’t they answer my questions?! Why??” Gets in his car to leave. That group went inside and got someone - probably someone willing to speak for them - but by the time she comes out the camera man has now painted them negatively again “they ran me out of here, they ran away, they scattered and got in their cars and left, oh this woman is coming at me aggressively go go get out of here go.”
They did no such thing, they indicated politely he should leave, and he did. There was no aggression, and the when a woman came to speak with him he zoomed off assuming she was a threat somehow? And then getting offended when she did exactly what he just did and filmed it.
This guy is not a reporter, has no credentials, is making wild baseless accusations in this first few minutes of his video, and its plain to see. This sets the tone for the rest of whatever dribble this guy has to say. The assumptions he made in that interaction were either racist, xenophobic, or just plain dumb because he has no idea why they might be a little on defensive and cautious about having conversations with random people approaching them ready to record them on a cell phone. If you want an interview you approach and ask without recording first, and then you only post video of willing participants. In my quick scroll of the remainder it would appear he did not use this ambush tactic on the people willing to speak to him.