Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

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    The thing that actually needs to happen here is make hunting geese legal.

    They are trash birds. And there are too many of them.

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      First Nations eat them birds. I’ve heard they’re fine eating. Of course, it depends where you hunt them. I met a guy who said they’d string a net over a beach at dawn or dusk during migration. He spoke highly of the event.

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          Sounds potentially messy if we don’t scale it down. Would feat the purpose for me. The actual geese I am fine with, it’s the insane amount of geese dumpage that I do not approve of.

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      Canada Geese are protected by the migratory birds act between Canada, US and Mexico. The only thing communities can legally do is take the eggs so they don’t hatch.

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        And at this point, that act should be amended. The Geese are fine. There’s no reason to protect them now.

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          It has more to do with the fact that they are migratory birds. The egg thing is a carve out specifically for them due to their shittiness and that’s literal.

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    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    “What have immigrants done wrong?”

    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    “But immigrants are propping up our society.”

    IMMIGRANTS BAD

    Bigotry is illogical, and there is no reasoning with it.

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      Bigotry is illogical

      Yet this isn’t even bigotry. It’s straight out xenophobia and hatred. The sanctimonious bullshit is just a fig leaf…

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        Yet this isn’t even bigotry. It’s straight out xenophobia and hatred.

        Bigotry is the broader category containing racism, xenophobia, and hatred based on perception of belonging to a group.

        Definition of bigotry: “obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”

        Bigotry isn’t ‘less bad than’ racism or xenophobia. Hating people for being from another country is one type of bigotry.