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3 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 OP 10h \ parent \ on: Anyone else going down the rabbit hole on the Charlie Kirk Assassination? news
I have had multiple people that I know - that I have never talked politics with - mention recently in the course of standard conversation how there's so much "anti-Semitism" around now.
I didn't challenge them. But I think to them, absolutely any commentary about the war in Gaza that isn't completely pro-Israel is anti-Semitism.
Apparently much of Charlie Kirks financial support came from the deep-pocketed Jewish donors, very closely allied to Israel. That's why he was (originally) uncritically supportive of Israel.
have had multiple people that I know - that I have never talked politics with - mention recently in the course of standard conversation how there's so much "anti-Semitism" around now.
You probably have a lot of low information "voters" around you as I do. That's what the TV says. But its not a single message anymore. You have people promoting Hamas mixed in with people that think both Hamas and the Israeli government are in the wrong.
They seek to divide us. That's how we are controlled. We should talk about these things like humans. Not be told to shut up or killed.
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But I think to them, absolutely any commentary about the war in Gaza that isn't completely pro-Israel is anti-Semitism.
The sad reality is that these types of attitudes are leading to and will increase anti-semitism.
I remember in the early 2000s realizing that the far left was going to far in their claims that the tech industry was full of hate. In the 2010s they were making stuff up. A nazi thing here. A white supremacist there. Movements that were present in my youth had been marginalized at this point. But they kept calling people Nazi that weren't. They kept calling people white supremacists because they were against quotas for speakers at conferences. I said to many of my friends that they are going to create what they claim to fear and hate.
I think this is what we are seeing. When you call people names like this for long enough some people are just wired to lean into it and say. Yeah, I am. And here's why. Its a human pattern outside of this political conflict. Its a rebellious nature in some people.
The same people that mock the left as snowflakes are doing the same thing on Israel. There are Jew hating people. Plenty of them. But far too many on the right and in Christian circles are lumping everyone into the same bucket because they are lazy and do not want to have a reasonable dialog. They have allowed fear and anger to overpower their ability to reason.
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