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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These rumors/stories, whatever you want to call them, is all new to me, but its just a way to dehumanize a certain group and therefore helping to justify labelling them the new boogieman.

ELI5 Its a way to make a group of people appear less human and different from yourself. This makes it easier to not relate to them and use them as a bad/ evil example of something you want to avoid.