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You do realize that a non-trivial amount of politicians have publicly made similar claims about the Jews? It's not like this is some isolated incident.

LudwigNagasena 5y ago
Can you name some politicians that claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate people or something similar?
- woofyman 5y ago
  Majore Taylor Green thought Jewish space lasers started the California fires https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/marjorie-taylor-...
- kthejoker2 5y ago
  Ron DeSantis spokeswoman https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secretary-christina-pushaw-walks-back-rothschild-dog-whistle-tweet-after-backlash https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secret... Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/07/20/sen-wendy-rogers-picks-up-white-supremacists-theme-song/8028670002/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/... Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jewish-gop-senate-candidate-blames-soros-and-deep-state-for-covid-19-1.10285407 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jewish-go... https://ktxs.com/news/local/shackleford-county-gop-chairwoman-defending-meme-making-light-of-floyd-protests https://ktxs.com/news/local/shackleford-county-gop-chairwoma... And these are just the outright ones, there is plenty of this stuff at rallies and protests that help fund politicians - there are hardly any condemnations unless it's so blatant it hurts their war chest.
  - q1w2 5y ago
    Sen. Wendy Rogers's quote was not about Jews at all. It was about latino migrants (not that that's better). Ron DeSantis spokeswoman isn't, what I would call, a politician - and her quote was specifically about the Rothschild family. Although it's not clear which conspiracy theory she's refering too - many of them (while all irrational) are not anti-semitic. It also doesn't seem to be a serious comment. Your other two links are for a candidate, not an active politician. These are not good examples.
  - LudwigNagasena 5y ago
    >Ron DeSantis spokeswoman There is no direct antisemitism, only some sort of wink-wink dog whistle accusations. >Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers Demographic concerns are common across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat). There is really nothing special about it. And there are always fears of "voter importation". It is not comparable to "Jews want to exterminate others with vaccines". >Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel I guess if he weren't Jewish, he would also be accused of antisemitism because he mentioned Soros? Thankfully for him he ticked the right box when he was born. And yeah, this seems to be the only person who openly articulated conspiracy theories. But again, that's your run-of-the-mill "deep state is puppeteering social movements to keep power", it doesn't look like "similar claims about the Jews".
tomjen3 5y ago
According to the article he believed that Jews have managed to take over the Catholic church. We are well past standard conspiracy theories here.

LudwigNagasena 5y ago

Can you name some politicians that claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate people or something similar?

woofyman 5y ago
Majore Taylor Green thought Jewish space lasers started the California fires https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/article/marjorie-taylor-...
kthejoker2 5y ago
Ron DeSantis spokeswoman https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secretary-christina-pushaw-walks-back-rothschild-dog-whistle-tweet-after-backlash https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secret... Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/07/20/sen-wendy-rogers-picks-up-white-supremacists-theme-song/8028670002/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/... Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jewish-gop-senate-candidate-blames-soros-and-deep-state-for-covid-19-1.10285407 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jewish-go... https://ktxs.com/news/local/shackleford-county-gop-chairwoman-defending-meme-making-light-of-floyd-protests https://ktxs.com/news/local/shackleford-county-gop-chairwoma... And these are just the outright ones, there is plenty of this stuff at rallies and protests that help fund politicians - there are hardly any condemnations unless it's so blatant it hurts their war chest.
- q1w2 5y ago
  Sen. Wendy Rogers's quote was not about Jews at all. It was about latino migrants (not that that's better). Ron DeSantis spokeswoman isn't, what I would call, a politician - and her quote was specifically about the Rothschild family. Although it's not clear which conspiracy theory she's refering too - many of them (while all irrational) are not anti-semitic. It also doesn't seem to be a serious comment. Your other two links are for a candidate, not an active politician. These are not good examples.
- LudwigNagasena 5y ago
  >Ron DeSantis spokeswoman There is no direct antisemitism, only some sort of wink-wink dog whistle accusations. >Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers Demographic concerns are common across the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat). There is really nothing special about it. And there are always fears of "voter importation". It is not comparable to "Jews want to exterminate others with vaccines". >Ohio US Senate candidate Josh Mandel I guess if he weren't Jewish, he would also be accused of antisemitism because he mentioned Soros? Thankfully for him he ticked the right box when he was born. And yeah, this seems to be the only person who openly articulated conspiracy theories. But again, that's your run-of-the-mill "deep state is puppeteering social movements to keep power", it doesn't look like "similar claims about the Jews".

tomjen3 5y ago

According to the article he believed that Jews have managed to take over the Catholic church. We are well past standard conspiracy theories here.