I know a lot of people are laughing about the sheer insanity of the comment about eating pets — and I would be a liar if I didn’t admit to being very amused by some memes.

But there is a deep and nefarious part of that racist trope that we can’t laugh off. It implies that immigrants, especially ones from Haiti who I might add are mostly here legally, are “subhuman and dangerous.”

This kind of lie is right out of the fascist playbook and is similar to what Hitler used to demonize Jews in the 1930s, allowing people to look the other way as the Holocaust unfolded. It paves the way for the type of internment camps and mass deportation that Trump wants if re-elected, which would be rooted in racism and xenophobia and cruel and inhuman as well.

This kind of lie, perpetuated by someone who wants to once again lead our nation, claiming he “saw it on TV” (as one meme suggests, perhaps it was on ALF), is why this is not a normal election.

I refuse to demonize people who have ideologies that are different than mine. but I also refuse to ignore behavior that is incompatible with the values of our constitution and more importantly, my faith.

You promote what you permit.