"I had never heard of this before the other day, as I doubt many had." I've been aware of this for a while, and its not just something 'the left' concocted, no

"I had never heard of this before the other day, as I doubt many had." I've been aware of this for a while, and its not just something 'the left' concocted, nor is it new, and has been a bogeyman of reactionary nutjobs going back decades. I remember hearing it as a post-Jim Crow trope in the 80s, and I thought it was stupid then, and it's stupid now...but stupid and violent paranoia is what gets you things like the recent Buffalo shooting (among other things), which is likely why its getting a lot of news ink now, and justifiably so. It's not limited to the US either, but we're just really good at giving it a fresh coat of double-speak paint via buffoons like Tucker Carlson and any available Trumpkin du jour.