[From “May 16, 2024: Anti-Semitism Awareness Act”]
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spoiler Panel 1: Squigley says that “They're making it illegal to say Jews run the world”, to which Slick replies “What?”
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I'll comment here and not the later duplicate.
But, if Jewish people did in fact, rule the world... you'd think the blatant and repeated antisemitic nonsense that pops up everywhere wouldn't be a thing.
And I'd even say, not only as a matter of principle, but really a matter of taste. It's all usually just so one note and lame.
@Bastethotep #199870
I don’t think it’s about making a point so much as it’s a shiny fish-hook for somebody to be mad. Depending how you read it or what you assume the creator’s bias is you could interpret the comic to be making the same point as @Tilver and I think a flame war breaking out over what it “means” and what that says about the people who read it that way is the intent. I think Ishida is just a lifelong troll. Even back in the days his comics seemed to be tweaking the noses of the kind of people he attracts today it was more about tweaking noses than making a statement. He’s let on he hates his own fans and I think the wild shift in content is specifically to turn old and new readers against each other along political lines. It’s all about who had the most extreme reaction. It used to be “meninists” and the like making the biggest stinks over nothing at all and managing to hurt their own feelings just thinking about complete non-issues but times have changed. With actual stakes in today’s political clime the most volatile emotional ground belongs to the people with legitimate grievances in actual danger of their rights being taken away so he’s turned on them instead with provocation that wouldn’t make sense for him to believe but does make sense if his whole goal is to provoke.
Or I could be wrong. After all bigotry is logic’s antithesis and once it takes center state it rapidly erodes everything around it into sheer insanity.
Sir Keir Starmer guaranteed political power: to the extent that any - any - legislation by a Labour government will be impossible to oppose. A menorah in the window of No. 10 this December - and more to come - as his wife and children are practicing Jews.
What’s to stop him from making Anti-Semitism a specific criminal offence thus making it Thought crime, Tatty…?!
We already have the umbrella legislation that is Section 5 of the Public Order Act, so what’s so wrong in making that even more draconian, OP? I’d have no problem with that. You…?!
First they came for the Anti-Semites: I did not speak out, because I’m not an inferior subhuman Nazi.
…and then they did not come for me: because I’m not an asshole.
So you think ‘Jews Rule The World’, o ye with a tattered arse over that notion? Good.
I for one welcome our new Jewish overlords.
@Anon-e-moose #199892
First they came for the Anti-Semites: I did not speak out, because I’m not an inferior subhuman Nazi.
…and then they did not come for me: because I’m not an asshole.
No risk of “Then they came for me, forcing me to go into hiding, because by then, the definition of ‘asshole’ had been expanded to include the likes of me”?
@Sasha , @Malingspann
It’s something I’ve posted in /pol/: it’s pissed them off.
The OP wouldn’t like it. If they don’t like a bit of their own BS turned/used against them, they shouldn’t dish it out. Sauce for the Goose, and all that jazz.
@Bastethotep #199870
I think it’s a certain argument that I’ve seen before, that since Jews have enough influence to ban/punish hate speech against them, that’s somehow proof of the conspiracy that they are in charge of everything. Although, by that logic, blacks and gays would also have to rule the world too.
@PMSFKS #199915
by that logic, blacks and gays would also have to rule the world too.
There are sadly people who believe this. See “reverse racism” and “globohomo”. I also saw recently someone who was whining that if he was Black, the city would have bent over backwards to accommodate his unreasonable very reasonable requests. And then there are people who think the Jews are the real evil overlords, they’re just empowering up minorities of various sorts in order to help break the White Christian “supermajority” who “rightfully deserve” to be the world’s masters.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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