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So in 2018 there are still people with a mythological conception of Jews? (Original Post) milestogo Oct 2018 OP
There are still racists fighting a war that they lost in 1865. guillaumeb Oct 2018 #1
Every time 45 or any alt-white-right says "globalist," they're dog-whistling "Jews." VOX Oct 2018 #2
Yes. Blue_true Oct 2018 #4
What do you mean by that? oberliner Oct 2018 #3
Underpinned by myth. Blue_true Oct 2018 #5
Thank you oberliner Oct 2018 #7
All of us need to help root it out. Blue_true Oct 2018 #9
Agreed oberliner Oct 2018 #11
Challenge it hard and with facts. Other than here, I don't have a social media presence. nt Blue_true Oct 2018 #12
There have always been people who thought of Jews as evil milestogo Oct 2018 #6
Understood oberliner Oct 2018 #8
I've always heard about "The Jews" controlling everything. Progressive Jones Oct 2018 #10
Post removed Post removed Oct 2018 #13

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. There are still racists fighting a war that they lost in 1865.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 05:58 PM
Oct 2018

And Nazis and KKK members marching openly.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
2. Every time 45 or any alt-white-right says "globalist," they're dog-whistling "Jews."
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:10 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Sun Oct 28, 2018, 07:14 AM - Edit history (2)

Back in the days when the Third Reich was ascendant, it was the “globalist Jewish menace” who was scapegoated as being responsible for all of Germany’s ills (being Jewish then was twisted into being communist (Bolshevik), and thus an enemy of the state.

Read what was said about Jews (and liberals, democratic socialists, intellectuals, etc.) in 1930s Germany. Compare that with what one hears at a Trump rally about refugees, or a menacing “caravan” of Hondurans, but (with no proof) possible Middle Easterners; or the ongoing bullying and stoking of animosity toward past political opponents who are now private citizens.

It’s the same today, only the poison has now spread to America.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
4. Yes.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:21 PM
Oct 2018

The underlying claim of antisemites and Nazis is that Jewish people somehow control all world activities and control the most powerful countries in the world as well as many world economies. It is a false charge, but haters use it to justify their blind hatred.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
3. What do you mean by that?
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:16 PM
Oct 2018

I don't understand the phrase "mythological conception" - can you elaborate?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. Underpinned by myth.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:24 PM
Oct 2018

Read my earlier post on how antisemites claim that Jewish people underhandedly rule the world. That is a myth built and added to over many centuries. It is a vile lie, but antisemites use it anyway.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. Thank you
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:36 PM
Oct 2018

I agree that it is insane that this mentality is still pervasive among so many antisemites.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
9. All of us need to help root it out.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:40 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Sat Oct 27, 2018, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Challenge anyone that makes that claim face to face and explain that it is a lie. Don't remain silent for family or friendship peace.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
11. Agreed
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:45 PM
Oct 2018

I also feel like something has to be done about the massive amount of antisemitic crap on social media and online in general.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
6. There have always been people who thought of Jews as evil
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:27 PM
Oct 2018

or being Christ killers...

Looked it up, there are varieties of anti-semitism:

The Roman Catholic historian Edward Flannery distinguished four varieties of antisemitism:[60]

- political and economic antisemitism, giving as examples Cicero[61] and Charles Lindbergh;[62]
- theological or religious antisemitism, sometimes known as anti-Judaism;[63]
- nationalistic antisemitism, citing Voltaire and other Enlightenment thinkers, who attacked Jews for supposedly having certain characteristics, such as greed and arrogance, and for observing customs such as kashrut and Shabbat;[64]
and - racial antisemitism, with its extreme form resulting in the Holocaust by the Nazis.[65]

Louis Harap separates "economic antisemitism" and merges "political" and "nationalistic" antisemitism into "ideological antisemitism". Harap also adds a category of "social antisemitism".[66]

- religious (Jew as Christ-killer),
- economic (Jew as banker, usurer, money-obsessed),
- social (Jew as social inferior, "pushy," vulgar, therefore excluded from personal contact),
- racist (Jews as an inferior race),
- ideological (Jews regarded as subversive or revolutionary),
- cultural (Jews regarded as undermining the moral and structural fiber of civilization).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism


None of it is based on fact - Jews have been made into scapegoats.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
10. I've always heard about "The Jews" controlling everything.
Sat Oct 27, 2018, 06:42 PM
Oct 2018

I know many Jews. None of them control anything but their own lives.
Well, there was that guy who coached one of my Little League baseball teams.
He was a Jew. He controlled a Little League baseball team.
I had no idea that I was a pawn in the implementation of a "globalist takeover"...

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