• plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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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).

    • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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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

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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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”.