REASONABLE PERSON: a lot of people don’t understand how antisemitism works + that’s a problem on the left, since it leaves us open to fascist creep 32-YEAR-OLD CHAPO FAN: hope u stretched b4 that reach, my dude, fuck IDPOL [flips down sunglasses, skateboards away]
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I ask this in totally good faith, I dont care about the chapo guys, but I have seen the lizard people trope used a lot casually, particularly in older Contrapoints videos. Was it just unnoticed or why was that different?
Good question! I try to read generously but context matters. It wasn’t *just* the lizard people thing. It’s the fact that he dropped *four* different antisemitic tropes in the same tweet. This wasn’t an accident. Christman is intentionally referencing the Jews here.pic.twitter.com/rrz2lktfqI
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There's something to this desire to hoard problematic tropes and constantly weaponize them regardless of context in the most uncharitable way that is odd and annoying
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He's not and this is really disappointing.
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Can you explain how? I’ve spent my entire adult life - both as an academic and a face puncher - fighting fascists. Are all mentions of “global elites” tacitly anti-Semitic? If so, what do we call global elites?
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Is it the Icke connection? Because I’m fairly confident in saying that “lizard people”, etc, has become a cultural meme that is barely traceable back to his overall agenda - as antisemitic as he may be. I think you’re a smart person from what I’ve seen and you lost me.
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This might be because I'm not from US, but nothing of that screams here to me.
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If it looks like a reach and sounds like a reach, then it's certainly not a CIA plant undermining left unity by inventing connections between popculture conspiracy tropes and revisionist alt-right paranoid racism mythology.
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Is discussing the ruling class also antisemitic because it happens to overlap with weird right wing conspiracy stuff? We pretty much know that the elite of the elite engage in some pretty weird shit which probably includes pedophilia, is discussing that reality antisemitic?
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Even that is giving the meme too much credit, it's a joke about how uncanny the man's face looks. It's not a serious endorsement of the conspiracies mentioned,
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