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Thanks for the background info.
I used to resent that Jews had a special word just for them: "antisemitism". But now I see it might be warranted because although every migrant group gets racist pushback, it is Jews who are the target of crazy conspiracy theorists. It is Jews who are said to secretly run the world.
I am not joking about the shape-shifting lizards from the planet Nibiru. That is from David Icke who says our world leaders are those lizards.
It is thought that he is using it as a dog-whistle for Nazis (to mean Jews). Certainly there is a disproportionate crossover between Nazis and Icke supporters.
Icke also championed the 5G conspiracies, is an anti-vaxxer and thinks the moon is a hollow spaceship used by aliens to spy on us from. I can't even...
"Antisemitism" is technically a BS word, just like the "Semitism" word it comes from. It was invented in the 1800s by some proto-Nazis, adopted in the 1900s by Nazis after the concept was already debunked, and continued in the 2000s by neo-Nazis. Nothing to be either jealous or proud of.
Somewhat ironically, not so secretly, and not a conspiracy.
Since 70CE, all Jews have been required to both read and understand the Torah, while other religions relied on priests "interpreting" the sacred texts for uneducated peasants, leading to Jewish literacy levels of 70% or more in countries with otherwise a 3% or less during the Middle Ages. At the same time, both Christians and Muslims were forbidden from "usury", or charging interest on loans (Muslim banking still is), but guess who wasn't: Jews. And who'd guess it, the Diaspora meant there was one or a dozen Jews pretty much in every city. As commerce grew all over the world, merchants used to go to literate Jews, like the ones sitting on the bench ("banca") in Florence, asking for loans and generally to do what nobody else was either capable or allowed to do, like letting them carry bank notes instead of coffers full of gold, redeemable at other "branches". Big surprise, some centuries later, you can trace most of the financial world back to Jews, both the concepts and ownership.
Also not a coincidence there have been so many famous Jewish artists, scientists or inventors. Anyone who's got a problem with that, can thank their own religious ancestry for the cultural suicide.
...but of course it's easier to blame the guys who got it right, while spreading further conspiranoic BS to dig an even deeper hole for one's own culture. 🤦
Thanks. Your summary is great copypasta I will be using in future.
I learned all about that from my Jewish friend (who is afraid to let people know. I used to think it was paranoid but after the rise of the cookers and Nazis, I now appreciate his caution).
The only AI I fear is Augmented Idiocy. Covid will subside but the declining language and science literacy and numeracy is just getting worse. Flat earthers are on the increase FFS.
This bit I disagree with though:
BS or not the racist extremists, from what you tell us, made up the word Semitism so surely that warrants legitimate pushback with the term Antisemitism?
Both words were made by the same people, claiming a racial difference between those descending from semitic cultures and those who were not (this was already debunked by the 1920s). "Semitism" was intended as a pejorative, with "Antisemitism" being the idea of "cleansing" the society from the negative influence of "semitism".
It's a made up Boogeyman used as an excuse to have something to push back against... and of course you can unite people around those ideas.
As a freakishly recent example, right now I've been watching the news on TV here in Spain. There is a problem around choosing a president, with the opposition using every strategy they can to discredit the incumbent.
One of the arguments they just decided to get up in arms about, is the incumbent just revealed agreed to forgive 15B€ of fiscal debt from one of the regions, which the representative of another region was being shown Live heavily criticizing, going on about how it should be all regions negotiating together, yadda yadda... and just then a news ticker goes by, stating that the incumbent has also agreed to forgive another 12B€ to the region of the guy just speaking Live. So much for "negotiating all together"!
Boogeyman created, and debunked Live. Wish I had recorded it. 😄
But wait, there's more!
Just then, they switched to the speaker for the opposition party, also Live, who started criticizing the incumbent for trying to agree on which days are going to be holidays and which work days, to fit in the voting calendar... news ticker goes by: opposition party, with majority in the Senate, tries to urgently pass a law change to delay the votes so they fall on holidays and the incumbent runs out of time.
Seriously!? Two in the span of less than 10 minutes! 🔔🔔
Clearly I need to read up more on the Antisemitism. You have inspired me.
Your TV sounds like comedy. Yes it is indeed a shame you didn't record it. Two in a short period of special but in future even if you could capture don't individual occurrences it would make for a wonderful compilation. Perhaps they people running the ticker are hoping someone like you will do just that?
Speaking of dodgy politicians: this ex lawyer-soldier pointed out how Australian military commanders were behaving illegally in Afghanistan and only acting to please politicians who in turn were only concerned with their own popularity (measured by polling).
Nothing he said was untrue, but instead of investigating the war crimes the government is trying to throw him into jail for the rest of his life because, according to them, his whistleblowing compromised national security.
https://youtu.be/56cleIKdt0c
You will recognize the power games from Spain and every other country. This guy is a hero for challenging the system.