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I could write a goddamn essay about how the "Nazis are inhuman pure evil monsters" logic has actually helped Nazis but unfortunately saying "Hey Nazis ARE people, choosing a group that you don't like and deeming them subhuman and okay to treat as such is not only nazi logic but also makes it easier for Nazism to rise" will probably just have people claim I myself am a Nazi because there are way to many idiots who think that dehumanization is ok when they do it to those who "deserve it"
#*shakes you* if you don't get the point#elon was able to do the goddamn nazi salute and still get defended BECAUSE people believe nazis are these alien “others”#that behave like cartoon villains and want to destroy the great country of america#red skull is a believable nazi to these people because he is the enemy of the character literally named captain america#and has an inhuman looking face#but in reality nazis ARE humans and they will act like human beings#while people are on the lookout for a redskull 2.0 to heroically punch#they're simultaneously rolling their eyes at people pointing out actual real nazi behaviour and calling them overdramatic or sensitive#because they can't grasp that nazism is not redskull#they can't grasp that nazism IS those slurs that discrimination those “opinions” on politics those viewpoints#nazis aren't sitting in an evil lair they are humans who have families and are nice and say funny things#they sway people they can justify their beliefs they can claim it's for the greater good#they don't have to say they're a nazi at all#and then when marginalized groups who aren't so blind call out the dogwhistle or that concerning opinion everyone jumps on them#and will say “but they're so nice” “they're a lefist” “having an opinion doesn't make you a nazi” “nazis don't act like that” etc#and the person in question slowly gains more influence and power because they act like a person#they hurt all the groups no one at the top cares about until oops turns out they're a nazi and nobody can believe it#do you think the nazi party held people at gunpoint in order to be supported in germany?\#no they made promises they inspired hope#they found a marginalized group to use as a scapegoat and justified it through propaganda and arguments that sounded smart and clever#none of that would have happened if they acted like a cartoon nazi#dehumanising and demonising these people merely gives them more power as they are pictured as an unstoppable alien force#you people who are on you morally superior american hero crusade will only hurt others who don't act good enough or you personally#nazis are human beings#i am not defending them#i am not one of them#i am stating an undeniable fact that can make many of them lose their power if enough people begin to understand it#before you cheer “punch nazis” think about how many times you'vr excused people drawing the swastika “for fun”#or how many times you've advocated for censorship and purist logic because you believe you're protecting the kids#or stopping “bad” people from spreading their “fantasies” or “beliefs” and “normalising them”
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[image id: a screencap of a post by user @amoneyresists (Andrew Wortman) with a queer pride flag and american flag emoji after their name.]
"I'm gonna vote for the party that wants to give fourth graders free school lunches instead of the one that wants to force them to have their rapists['] baby."
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Same #voteblue
#YUP#vote#vote DEMOCRAT#i don't give a flying fuck if you like the candidate or not#if they're even slightly superior to a nazi then you vote for the fucking democrat#because the alternative is voting for THE PARTY THAT HAS DECIDED THAT NAZIS ARE OKAY ACTUALLY#some democrats are SHITS yes#but so far as i know we don't have any cases of any democrat where folks would literally be uncertain whether the swastika grafitti#on their campaign signs was there to signal support or opposition! THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THERE SHOULD BE A QUESTION ABOUT FOLKS#''hmm i wonder if this swastika was put here by a nazi who supports this candidate and wants to signal their approval?'' is not a question#that anyone should ever have! and when you come to a time where you do then YOU DO NOT FUCKING VOTE FOR THEM!#OR ANYONE WHO SIDES WITH THEM!#vote for the FUCKING DEMOCRATS at least most of them are TRYING to make things better instead of actively worse!#when david duke is out there endorsing your candidates and your party's response is ''hey it's nice to be liked!'' then YOUR PARTY IS OVER#and anyone who continues to be an active member of that party has just shown EXACTLY what kind of person they are DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM#and don't just NOT VOTE either because you know what apathy is a vote for? there's kind of a famous quote about it hang on#EVIL IS ALLOWED TO PREVAIL WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING#so FUCKING! VOTE! BLUE!#politics#america#democrats#republicans
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just thinking about how totally leftists opinions shifted from 2020 to 2023/2024 like
"a person of color being a bad person doesn't mean they deserve to face racism" >> "bad jews deserve what they get"
"black lives matter" >> "slavery is okay if the houthis do it"
"the US government is bad but people arent usually represented by their governments, most of us didnt vote for trump anyway" >> "all israelis are evil because of netanyahu's actions"
"if one nazi sits down at a table of 9 normal people, there are 10 nazis" >> *allowing swastikas and HH salutes at protests*
"silence is violence" >> "it isnt my job to talk about antisemitism"
"racial minorities shouldnt have to try to pass as white, 'white passing' privilege is complicated and should be treated as such" >> "jews are white and i wont entertain any other possibility, historical or otherwise"
"let minorities define their own bigotry" >> "jews dont know what real antisemitism is and theyre exaggerating anyway"
“immigrants should be protected and deportation is wrong” >> “israelis need to go back to where they came from”
obviously this isn't a comprehensive list & feel free to add more if you see fit but the amount of things these people did a total 180º on as soon as it was about jews is insane
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Things that I SWEAR I'm not making up about the Star Trek franchise:
A shifty alien bartender, his brother, and his nephew were what happened at Roswell
There are three mutually contradictory canonical explanations for what exists at the centre of the Galaxy, none of which are "A fuck-off gigantic black hole"
Two of these things are, respectively, God and the Devil
(The crew got along well enough with the Devil, but Spock had to blow-up God with a torpedo)
One of the most compelling and sympathetic characters in the franchise is a hologram of Professor Moriarty who gained enough self-awareness to realise that he didn't need to be evil just because he was written that way
If you fly too fast, you turn into a salamander
(Said salamanders are actually the inevitable endpoint of human evolution)
The universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala (why is it smiling? What does it know!?)
There have been three separate groups of Space Nazis (not just aliens with a fascist government; literal Nazis with armbands and swastikas)
There are also: two (2) cowboy planets, two (2) planets that are just post-apocalyptic versions of Cold War-era Earth, one (1) planet ruled by Chicago mobsters from the 1920s, and one (1) version of Earth where the Roman Empire never fell
The Roman planet has its own Jesus
There is an anthropological law governing parallel planetary development that holds that planets are likely to recapitulate eras from Earth history
Because of the intervention of an ancient race of ur-humanoids, most sentient races in the galaxy look like human actors with rubber prostheses glued to their foreheads
There are so many planets centred around sex and hedonism that people in the fandom use the term "Roddenberry Sex Planet" to describe them
Jack the Ripper was an alien ghost
Amelia Earhart was abducted by aliens
If you have a high ESP score, you turn into a god when you try to fly outside of the Galaxy
The major antagonists are: Space Vikings/Samurai, Space Romans (not the Romans mentioned earlier), Space Fascists (not any of the nazi groups mentioned earlier), the Space British Empire (ruled by goo people), and Space Bees (except you'll turn into one if they sting you)
Klingons have two dicks
Borg assimilation can be catalyzed by eating car batteries
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tatsuya is now explicitly telling his readers to start killing jews
Obviously I'm not posting the comic, but to save you the temptation of looking it up, the final panel is a picture of a caricature of a Jewish person getting attacked with a pitchfork with the caption "Yeet the Yid", which I'm counting as a slur for the purposes of Sinfest Racism Bingo.
Which means that I think we're really truly finally done with Sinfest's descent. He banged out "slurs" and "explicit calls for violence" in the same day. I literally can not think of anything else he could do that's categorically worse than this, short of committing a crime himself.
It's so....disappointing. I wasn't really reading Sinfest back when it was "good", so I don't mourn the loss of a once-good webcomic. But even when he finally crosses the final line that I didn't initially think he could cross, he doesn't even have the decency to do it in an interesting way. Not that I want him to be a funnier nazi or anything, but there's this deep well of pathetic to it all. "Yeet the Yid", huh? That's what you got? That's the big call to violence after months of buildup?
One of my favorite reviews of anything is the RPGNet review of a deeply racist and misogynist game called FATAL that was also stupid and boring. You may have seen the review, it's savage and great (though, content warning since it directly quotes a bunch of horrific shit), but there's an analogy from it that Sinfest makes me think of.
Oh, they want to be all evil and shocking and crap. God, how pathetically they tried. I mean, imagine opening a door to find your mother and sister raping each other with pink strap-ons. And you then realize that you've never seen their bare asses before, because you're pretty sure you would have remembered the swastikas tattooed there. And upon noticing you, they grin wickedly and give you the finger in unison. It's shocking in a way that instantly blights out all rational thought, but later, you'll have to admit the finger and wicked grinning part was kinda cool. (I...guess.) That's the feeling the FATAL morons so wish they could provoke. Instead, they're more like opening that door to find your weeks-unwashed Otaku brother in his soiled underwear, masturbating furiously to - of all the goddamn things in the world - an Archie comic. And on his bare ass is a tattoo of, inexplicably, someone else's ass, and he's disgustingly fat enough for it to be a good 14 inches across. And as he goes at it, he's quietly moaning to himself about how worthless women, [LGBT People] and [black people] are and how they should all be raped or murdered. It's still disturbing on all kinds of levels. But it's the kind of stupid disturbing that ends with you having to answer questions to the satisfaction of a prosecuting attorney.
Let that be Sinfest's legacy. A tattoo on Tatsuya Ishida's ass of the Stonetoss Guy's Ass.
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do we think that this person realizes how analogous to nazism wesker is, and if they do, do they support it beyond a “I like villains” way
look at this car I parked by at work. I had heard of this car as the infamous “racist resident evil car” but didn’t actually see it up close until the other day
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#i heard there’s swastikas on it too but didn’t see them#ik your interests don’t have to align with your political beliefs#but imagine being a white supremacist resident evil fan#where most of the villains are white people with god complexes and plans for eugenics#conversely most of the main characters are white but like. it is so clear that wesker and the ashfords are practically nazis
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Before and during the Second World War, the Third Reich made an absolute fuckload of the Nazi flag. You know, the infamously iconic red flag with a white circle and black swastika in the middle.
It was both the national icon and, being the symbol of fascism, extremely important to churn out millions of the things.
The allies who fucked the Third Reich’s shit and made a Thousand-Year Reich fail to survive the decade employed millions of young men who all knew they were making history, and wanted a little souvenir to bring home. A Nazi flag made for a great one. They’d torn down the world’s greatest evil, captured the flag, a potent symbol that people have died for. Why not take it?
Eighty years later, when the youngest man to have fought in the war is 97 and they’re all dying out, families the world over are going through great-grandpa’s stuff and finding whole ass Nazi flags. They know he served in the War, they know he wasn’t a Nazi, he killed Nazis! But they don’t want a Nazi flag in their home in Chicago, or wherever they are. But it’s a genuine historical artefact. People fought to defend that flag, or to destroy the evil that flew it. You can’t just throw it away, it’s got an educational value to it. Oh, I know!
Send it to a museum!
The result of this?
Every military history museum refuses to take Nazi flags from people, because every day they get three or four offers to take ol great-grandpa’s nazi flag and put it on display to Warn The Next Generation.
Today I and a couple others from my museum opened a storage unit that hasn’t been catalogued since 2014. I joked before we entered, “I bet we’ll find a Nazi flag!” We found two.
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i think posts about nazis - especially ones that show swastikas and nazi salutes and any other imagery like that - should probably be tagged so people can filter them. even if the post is saying "look at this nazi get punched isn't that awesome" or "look at this stupid evil incredibly powerful and dangerous billionaire doing a nazi salute isn't that awful." bc i cannot imagine what it's like to be jewish and online rn and being reminded of this shit over and over
#text#like noah fence its just kind of bewildering to me that Nobody seems to be tagging it at all???#it upsets Me to see that stuff without warning and im not even jewish. like. idk#nazi tw#antisemitism tw
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I love the approach that the David Star (Symbol) and the David Star from the Israeli flag are not the same symbol and inches do not look the same
The David Star is usually depicted this way (Occasionally, it is less negative, but blue has negative connotations)
The color of the wood is no longer associated with the Israeli flag
This does not change the fact that we still have the same problem, the connotations it will have in the future and how the symbol will be perceived by the victims of Israel.
An example would be the manji symbol
Even though it is different from the Nazi swastika, it was still associated with it
So logically, the manji should not be attacked so much when it appears, but as you can imagine, the way the Asian media portrayed it caused quite a lot of outrage in the Jewish community, even though the two symbols are different (Compared to the David Star and the flag Israel)
And here the question begins: won't David's star suffer the same fate as Manja? The symbol was used by genociders and lost its peaceful meaning?
Manji was a symbol of happiness, unfortunately, because of the madman who stole it, it lost its meaning and is constantly confused with its Nazi equivalent…
Saying that the David Star and the flag of Israel are different sounds irrational considering the history of the symbol which was also different and yet was considered evil by an evil man (And both symbols were more different than the David Star and the flag of Israel)
If Israel had not placed the David Star on its flag, no one would have combined the two. Unfortunately, the symbol was used here and has a high risk of becoming Manji 2.0
So yes, you can only blame Israel (or rather the Zionists) for using this symbol in their flag
Because who, when seeing a manji today, does not see a swastika? (Same in the previous century)
Here you can only blame bad people for using this symbol, not people who associate it with genocide
Unfortunately, bad people kill beautiful symbols and well, all we can do is accept the day that we will have to abandon or change something, because bad people destroyed this symbol, and once it is destroyed, it is difficult to get it back, especially when it is fresh. thing…
Although it is slightly ironic that those who associated the manja symbol with the swastika are now struggling with the fact that David Star is associated with Israel… I know, trivial, but still a bit interesting
But okay, I'll leave you with this ironic paradox :V
#free palestine#boycott israel#anti israel#fuck israel#israel is a terrorist state#israel is evil#israel war crimes#israeli occupation#israeli terrorism#stop israel#israel#palestinians#anti zionisim#isreal#genocide#jews#jew#jewish history#jewish#judaism#manji
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They really expect us to be fucking stupid don't they. I still remember Charleston! I still remember all the fucking Neo Nazi gatherings! The people who chanted awful antisemitic slogans. The swastikas being flown proudly. The way people wrung their hands about punching Richard Spencer.
Where were the cops with their tear gas and non-lethals? Where were they? Where were they when a neo nazi shot and killed protestors? When one run over people with his car? Where was the gratuitous violence?
Why must we accept that violence against college students is necessary?
Stupid. Abolish police. No more tears cried for fucking dead cops. Evil, all of them. I know we're not supposed to describe a group of people as monsters.
But cops are monsters. They serve no use, and should be annihilated.
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This is not normal! White supremacists didn’t have boat parades for Bush! They didn’t have racist parading for Reagan. They certainly didn’t have Nazis marching for McCain! As a nation this heavy lean towards fascism needs put down in its beginnings. What was taken from you rarely is easily retained. Steps in that direction have imprinted the treads of fascist workings in our republic.
1. Undermine the legitimacy of the core foundations of a government. Make elections out to be shams or rigged.
2. Remove, replace or discredit a free press.
3. Delegitimize, the judiciary. Install your own.
4. Find a collective enemy to focus the nations problems upon ie. Immigrants, religious factions, race
5. Make this enemy seem less than human, disgusting and a threat to your way of life.
6. Insert a leader who boasts that he will save the nation, that him and him alone can solve these problems.
7. Create an atmosphere of fear. That if this leader isn’t implanted the nation won’t survive.
8. Create an us vs them mentality with your followers, framing it as good vs evil, right vs wrong. Placate to religious beliefs if possible.
9. Create minoritarian rule through extreme gerrymandering and electoral processes that increase the influence of the minority party. One where the numbers of votes cast doesn’t reflect the representation given.
10. Install family members in your administration, supplanting experts and professionals.
#election 2024#politics#vote blue#kamala harris#traitor trump#the left#republicans#donald trump#news#gop#trump24#trump is a threat to democracy#harris waltz#harris walz 2024#fascisim#freedom#american people#trump vance 2024#vote kamala#women voters#america#kamala for president#declaration of independence#democracy#respect#liberty#usa#the constitution#trump is a traitor#trump for president
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Guys, do you wanna see the worst of the worst of the mainstream media?
Newsweek sucks so bad. Check out this headline:
The implication of this headline? Trump supporters are all Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, of course. The evil Nazi Republicans are totally cool being associated with Swastikas and Hitler.
That's what they mean when they say that Nazis were part of the boat parade.
Here are all of the posts that Newsweek shared throughout the article while equating Trump voters (and boaters) to Nazis.
1.3 million views on this X post, by the way.
And this video from the Nazi boat.
100k+ views on this tweet saying that Republicans are Nazis and "not even hiding it." Pushed by Newsweek.
But buried deep within the story, among all of the videos and photos of the Nazi Trump supporters, we do get this sidenote.
The user then posted a video of Trump supporters on a different boat using its engine to splash the boat bearing the swastikas with water. The people on the boat with the swastika flags can be heard saying 'Sieg heil, heil Trump.'
Trump supporters actually got close to the boat and SOAKED them because they're a bunch of Nazi losers.
The user who posted the video said that they were probably Antifa infiltrators. Which, given the fact that half of the supposed Nazis in the country seem to be feds entrapping people, Lincoln Project plants, or Antifa posers seems like a decent guess.
Trump and MAGA have nothing to do with these losers.
But that won't stop Newsweek from their slandering.
Newsweek has contacted the Trump campaign via email for comment.
Yeah, because Trump has to individually condemn each and every loser Nazi who shows his face. You know, like how Kamala has to condemn by name each Hamas supporter who campaigns for her ... right? _______________________ __________________________
Not like false flagging is anything new.
Problem is legit nazis actually hate Trump, he's too friendly with Israel and Jewish people in general, including his daughter and son in law, for their liking.
Real question now is did those goons already have those flags and if so why.
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I wanna share a little story with youse alls cause I just recalled it recently.
So in Middle School, as a little edgelord, I (and a small group of my friends) would write stories and share them with each other. And lot of those stories my friends wrote were very much fantasy romance shojo manga influences. I literally had to be dragged kicked and screaming into writing romances cause I hated it so much. Like I REALLY didn't like writing romance because that meant I had to THINK about these things.
But the things I would write was roughly THIS.
The setting was called X. X stood for many things. Experiment. Exterminate. Exile. etc. etc. A lot of X shaped logos.
But the main plot of this story was the NAZIS with their fucking NAZI MONEY wanted to make the perfect aryan spokesperson Mutant. They were like 'make us a beautiful angelic being that we can make a spokesperson to our hate so everyone can see how RIGHT we are.' So they're experimenting on children grown in labs, fusing them with animals and making abominations against god, tormenting them to push them to their limits and then killing them when they didn't live up to expectations. It was a lot of horrific torture scenes.
There even was a bit where one of the scientists (the scientists were also all nazis) tried to 'recreate' his little sister who died in an accident when they were both little. But she was....just wrong. Like all her organs were on the outside, she was in perpetual pain, every second of her life was agony and he just purposefully. Kept her ALIVE.
There was also a character that the Main group would find later on who escaped the labs ages ago who was called 'Solomon the Unicorn' who was a sort of mutant monsterous creature in the nazi's attempt to make a unicorn. But he wasn't made in the recent era-he remembered WWII. So the scientists have been at this for a LONG LONG WHILE and the big dramatic reveal if you turned the X logo on it's side, it'd be a swastika it's like 'FUCK the NAZIS' (it was never explicitly said Nazi until like the last minute.)
And most of the ending arcs were these mutated horribly abused children rising up, disemboweling these nazi scientists because 'Pain No More.' and they escape. And in the ending as a homage to the Island of Dr. Moreau is they steal a big boat and they all sail away because they don't want to be a part of human society anymore if this is how humans behave (they only really had exposure to the scientists ever.)
And that returned to the frontal lobe of my mind recently probably due to the recent political climate of everything. That little Middle School me, in all my social anxiety, I was afraid to ASK for ketchup or correct a meal order, number of friends could be counted on one hand-made Nazis the ultimate evil of what essentially was my earliest trapse through the Splatter Punk Genre. I was 14. And I hated Nazis so fucking much I wrote horror gore stories about them getting mangled by monster children at such a level if a teacher were to ever READ this in depth, I would have been rung up to the office.
Things to think about, ya know?
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Is this a safe space to ramble about history and spread fun facts?
Because I want to talk about how Nazis have a history of appropriating religions and NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS ENOUGH.
They despised any religion it seems like. We all know how they felt about Jews (not good). But how about the swastika or their salute?
The swastika was stolen from Hinduism!!!!!! It used to mean something completely fine and innocent and the Nazis stole it from them and twisted it to mean something awful and distorted. And same with their salute. There is no historical evidence at all to show that the Romans EVER saluted like that. The higher likelihood is that they stole that from the Catholics. I grew up Catholic (Jewish convert now), but in Church, if we’re offering someone a prayer, we do that stance. THAT’S BEEN A ‘SALUTE’ IN THE CHURCH FOR CENTURIES! And now, because of Nazism, every Catholic I’ve met feels ashamed to take that stance
Anyways, ah, where was I? Oh, ya! This is cultural appropriation in it’s truest, most evil form and I feel like we as a society need to discuss how Nazism was trying to tear down every religion it could because then that would mean these people have loyalty to something other than their party.
I don't think I understand enough to endorse or denounce, so imma just post it here
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I've really been around quite a lot this summer. Last Friday me and a friend went to Ornässtugan ("the Ornäs house") in Dalarna. It was built by a wealthy mine owner in the early 16th century and its loft served as a guesthouse. 1758 it was turned into a museum, which makes it the second oldest museum in Sweden. The exhibition centers around king Gustav Vasa and the stories of how he as a young nobleman came to Ornässtugan in 1520 when he was on the run from the Danish king Kristian II. The visit ended with Gustav fleeing through Ornässtugan’s outhouse with the help of Barbro Stigsdotter, the wife of the owner. Or so the story was told by the people, anyway.
What interested me, though, was all the magic and folklore that had been carved into the walls to protect the building. This was supposedly done because it lacked a fireplace, and fire is usually a good protection against evil spirits. On one door you could see that the wood had been burnt around the lock, to symbolize fire. There was also a sun cross, or swastika, carved beside the door (too bad the Nazis ruined this symbol forever).
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An Open Letter Regarding the Holocaust Inversion & Blood Libel of the “Average Pace” Meme:
The person who shared the screenshotted post deleted it after I sent the following message. I truly believe they shared it out of ignorance & not malice; I cannot say the same of OP who created the graphic. I am sharing my deconstruction of its rhetoric & imagery here as a learning opportunity:
Nothing justifies the injustices Palestinians have faced, and what Netanyahu is doing is vile. No country should be above criticism, nor its leaders above condemnation, but this is not that.
What people like OP are doing is weaponizing legitimate atrocities to spread the antisemitic narratives of Holocaust Inversion (an offshoot of Holocaust Revision & Denial that claims “The new Nazis are Jews”) and Blood Libel.
And no, the fact that these libels are made in criticism of Israel does not absolve them of being antisemitic narratives that predate the existence of the State of Israel. As if to hammer in that point, that is not the flag of Israel that the creator of this agitprop decided to equate to the Swastika—that is the Magen David. That’s just the symbol for Judaism.
Worse, to impose the Magen David over images of blood (especially what is implicitly the blood of children) is a direct invocation of Blood Libel, the antisemitic accusation that Jewish leaders thirst for the blood of children. This libel has incited the mass slaughter of Jews since long before the Shoah, and is still being used to this day to incite violence against Jews through Qanon & accusations that Israelis drink & bathe in Palestinian blood.
And if it truly weren’t about the Jewishness of Israel, why would OP pick the Shoah specifically? There have been countless other mass killings in the world, many with much greater resemblance to Israel/Palestine than Jews in Nazi Germany (see: ethnic cleansings in Liberia & India/Pakistan for instance). Meanwhile, the only things The Shoah/WWII and Israel-Palestine have in common is people dying and Jews being present. So why specifically invoke the slaughter of Jews to criticize Israel if it is not about invoking the Jewishness of Israel?
That doesn’t even get into how cherrypicked those numbers are to the point the exact same “average pace” metric could easily be used (and in fact is, by the German far-right) to present the Bombing of Dresden by the Allies—a campaign that killed more than 25,000 German civilians in 72 hours in an area much bigger & less densely populated than Gaza with a fraction of the bombs that Israel has used—as comparable to the death camps.
This rhetoric does not aid Palestinians in any way. In fact it drags the movement down by providing ammunition that can be used to paint all criticism of Israel as antisemitic & give people who just hate Palestinians the casus belli they need to shut it down. The only thing it accomplishes is hurting Jews; it twists the knife in the wounds left in our community, it trivializes the Shoah by universalizing it or presenting it as “the lesser of two evils”, and it incites violence by equating Jews to Nazis.
#antisemitism#shoah#shoah mention#holocaust inversion#i/p#cw nazi imagery#cw hitler’s face#cw blood libel#holocaust remembrance#shoah inversion
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