So a new guy shows up to one of our public meetings yesterday, after maybe 20 minutes calls someone who he disagrees with a “zog bot”
I tell him not to call people that, bc “zog” originates in neo-nazism and anti-jewish conspiracy theories, say we can talk more after the meeting if need be
He slams his fists on the table and yells “ok zog bot” throws papers on the ground and storms out yelling “no god damn free speech! Zogs got em, zogs got em!”
Thanks for leaving loser
I saw some of my normie friends using some of those tropes out of nowhere. Most people who don’t engage with politics do not bother to go through the nuances of Zionism vs Judaism, and don’t bother to think about the fact that many Jewish people do not support what Israel is doing. The issue is that the political order in the entire world encourages this type of thinking. If you see what Israel has been able to get away with, or how everyone jumps to condemn any act of antisemitism even the ones that are mistakenly labeled as antiemetic because they are anti-Israel, if you hear the words of the Israeli state itself and the majority of politicians then the easiest conclusion is to fall into some antisemitic conspiracy. It takes education, thinking and engaging with political theory to not fall prey to this. That’s just how fucked up the situation is. The choices of the ruling class made antisemitism the path of least resistance that most normies are easily falling into in different degrees.