• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    ttbomk, the “fear the Jews: they are behind all evil” conspiracist-nationalists do hold such things to be true.

    And they are vocal about it, so your not having heard about such things doesn’t mean that such assertions are not made.


    I was told, a few decades ago, that in Europe the centuries-long sequence went sorta like this:

    1. Jews are farmers
    2. conspiracist-nationalists spread fear about “Jews are taking/owning all our farmland”, so therefore
    3. farmland gets taken away from Jews, which means, that they have to earn a living by other means, so therefore
    4. they become clockmakers, lawyers, doctors, etc, which therefore
    5. creates leverage for conspiracists to assert that they’re conspiring & taking all these skilled-work jobs, because it’s their world-subjugation program…

    etc…

    IOW, it doesn’t matter what people do: prejudice is going to claim “justification”, relentlessly.

    Machiavellianism is a mental-illness, or worse, a hardwiring-of-brain.


    Here’s some objectivity, however…

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1422308/palestinian-territories-israel-number-fatalities-and-injuries-caused-by-the-israel-and-hamas-war/