• AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    The entire point of this is that fascists get to be openly antisemitic while accusing Jews of antisemitism. This is by design. Zionist antisemitism requires that any place outside of Israel becomes even less safe for Jews than a settler-colonial project in a constant state of war, and it needs to become really bad for that to work out.

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      well yes, but like seppos don’t have inbuilt anti-semitism (as compared to europe of early 20th century), it’s like they doing everything to portray zionist controlled government caricature (which, without going into imperialism, is hard to wave away, cause usa is bending backwards to isntreal)

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        seppos don’t have inbuilt anti-semitism (as compared to europe of early 20th century)

        You should look up the newspaper that Henry Ford was publishing at that time.

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          oh, they were trying, but i mean that deep anti-semitic shit (as in pogroms/reconquista), not couple of industrialists getting mad at great depression. I don’t doubt ford or disney predilections (or fascist rallies, or nixon).

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            Yeah antisemitism is not a deep rooted ideology in the United States, at least not to the extent it is in Europe. It exists and has existed certainly, but not nearly like Europe

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              Honestly, sort of an aside, but the designer of the kkkonfederacy flag explained in a letter once, that the reason he chose the X-shape (a saltire) for the flag, instead of the “normal” upright cross as found in the South Carolina secession flag that inspired the Confederate flag… Was specifically to avoid potential objections from “the Jews & many Protestant sects” over the use of a religious symbol. And that’ll just never not be funny to me? “Yeah I’m designing a flag for a settler-colonial state whose sole purpose is to preserve the reprehensible, moribund institution of keeping our fellow human beings as chattel, but like… I’m not an antisemite, OK?”

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                  Oh, and by the way, in that same letter, William Porcher Miles wrote that the Confederate flag’s saltire represented “strength and progress” because the word saltire comes from the Latin for “I leap” — which, again, I can’t help but find ridiculously ironic, to characterize an entity whose sole purpose was to prevent progress as “progressive”.

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      less safe for Jews than a settler-colonial project in a constant state of war, and it needs to become really bad for that to work out.

      For instance, the former Soviet Union in the 1990s