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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

There's actually a looong leap from the known China-sponsored politicians to antisemitic cabal conspiracy theories

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That tells a lot of those who think that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that in 30 years you'll be considered the anti-Semite of this age, honestly. Sartre once famously claimed something like "if the Nazi didn't have the jew, they would have created him."

Sartre, for all his faults, understood that fascism always needed the external and periphery, whether defined geographically or ethnically, in order to sustain itself through expropriation. Who this was doesn't matter as much as that this group is defined as having more than it deserves for bad reasons and is therefore justifiable as a victim of violent expropriation. The values represented have become more progressive™ in that you believe China owns American representatives in order to mistreat Muslims or something. But materially it's identical to "Judeo-Bolshevik" antisemitism

Here's a bite-sized analysis from a guy who's pretty good at this:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1495054681579692035?t=gmJyzLx5go9hZWcFJkt5fw&s=19

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember fascists have been calling antifascists fascists for a long time but "the anti-Semite of this age" is definitely one of the most despicably hateful derogatory things I've seen in a while.

Edit: no, I do not open links from Musk's alt-right-landia