As Republicans in Congress have attacked President Biden’s handling of the southern border, some of them have turned to a far-right media figure with a decidedly extreme perspective. Online, Michael Yon has dubbed himself “just a simple war correspondent and cannibal hunter.” The latter part of his job description refers to his work tracking migrants and his fears they are part of “a planet of the apes style invasion” that is targeting the white race for “genocide and cannibalism.” This shockingly racist paranoia — including referring to migrants as “apes” and “Congo-Cannibals” — has not stopped Yon from collaborating with multiple Republican members of Congress who have turned to him to participate in inflammatory documentaries and junkets to Latin America.
These nut cases just seem to ooze out of the slime at a greater rate than has been known before. Having said that, I’m sure there’s a place for a cannibalism expert in the GOP. I’m surprised it took this long.
As a very flawed creature myself, I try not to be judgmental and not to consign anyone to a category beyond redemption. Some people make it hard. I am so sick of GQP idiots and all their racism and other isms. Can’t they just go live on the moon?
Ironically, the most famous recent American cannibal was a nerdy looking white guy from Milwaukee…
… and for a much older data point see :
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I blame TFG for the rise of these maniacs. He made it “normal” to be a raving bigot. I am sickened by every one of these poor excuses for human beings.
Update: days after calling to abolish TSA, I got “randomly selected” for the needlessly slow, thorough TSA screening & patdown. Maybe it’s a coincidence. Or not. Impossible to know. That’s part of the problem with having a federal agency in charge of airport security.
Ive been in the Darien Gap many times photographing wildlife. There are no hostile “Indians” there. Only Spanish and Emberá speaking folks live there. They do not kill people…they never killed me. Such racist horseshit from a man I’m sure has spent little or no time in the Darien bush.
I took this image not far from Central America’s southern extent. The girl is typical of those that live in the forests of Panama, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador etc, Does she look threatening to you? Her mother made me a corn and fish thing baked in banana leaves. No curare added.
