r/Jewish Aug 01 '25

Antisemitism Seriously how it feels right now

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u/zzleetni Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

One of the greatest historical distortions is how people turned the Nazis into cartoon villains, grotesques detached from humanity, so they would not have to recognize themselves.

People like to imagine Nazi Germany as a kind of gray, joyless dystopia, where the only music was Wagner or the Horst-Wessel-Lied, the only films were state propaganda like Triumph of the Will, and every book not authored by Alfred Rosenberg was being tossed into a bonfire by a stern man in an SA uniform.

But the reality, especially in the early years, was disturbingly normal and far more dangerous because of it.

Nazi Germany still had pop songs and jazz clubs. The most popular movies were romances and light comedies. Fashion trends cycled like anywhere else. There were mountain-climbing films, celebrity gossip columns, and cheerful magazine covers. People smiled. They danced. They went to cafés, took vacations, and made small talk with strangers on trains.

Foreign visitors often remarked on how modern, efficient, and polite everything seemed. And many Germans felt the same. It did not feel like they were living inside a nightmare. It felt like they were living in a nation finally reclaiming stability and pride.

Antisemitism was always present: loud, grotesque, and increasingly normalized. But Jews made up less than one percent of the German population, so most Germans could rationalize it away. They might have said the regime was going too far, but “there must be some reason behind it.” Many gave it a pass. Others simply tuned it out. The antisemitism festered, spread, and settled into the atmosphere.

And yet, even then, even in 1937 or early 1938, if you had asked most Germans, including many members of the Nazi Party, whether they supported the mass murder of every Jew in Europe, they would have been horrified. The idea of gas chambers and extermination camps would have sounded like lunacy. Even after Kristallnacht, the exiled and antisemitic Kaiser Wilhelm II was reportedly shocked by the sheer public brutality of it.

They were not monsters. They were polite, educated, otherwise decent people who smiled, danced, vacationed, and quietly agreed that we must have done something to deserve it. And then they sent us to die.

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u/Blue_Giraffe-Dragon Aug 01 '25

Thank you for writing this. It's incredibly impactful. I visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC recently and I was incredibly struck by how gradual the Holocaust actually was. People seem to think Hitler just sent the Jews away one day to be murdered, but there was so much buildup and incremental injustice that led up to it. I don't know what else to say; just that your writing has helped me continue to understand

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Thank you! I saw this smug, dumbass Lefty post about how fascists always start as assholes, and nothing could be further from the truth. Part of the immense horror of the Shoah is that it was largely carried out by normal, everyday people. Many Einsatzgruppen squads would start out executing Jews in tears, but then it became normal, and then they came to enjoy it. Just normal, everyday folks like us.

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u/Kind_Can9598 Aug 02 '25

Not Sonderkommando - I believe you meant Einsatzgruppen. Those were the SS death squads which went into Nazified areas to kill the Jews. The Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners tasked with “disposing” of the corpses of the murdered people in the extermination camps.

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 02 '25

I did and thanks for the correction. Duly edited.

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u/panda_98 Aug 03 '25

I hate to say it, but it's gotten to where I just roll my eyes anytime I hear or see the word 'facist', because I'd bet serious money those idiots wouldn't recognize actual facism

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u/fantasticplastick Aug 05 '25

Exactly. Someone who works with me-- on their first day, mind you-- had the audacity to goy-splain to me (A Jewish half-Israeli, the grandkid of an orphaned holocaust survivor grandfather z"l who survived the camps as a young boy) that "Zionism IS 'FACISM'". I was aghast at the absolute inversion and complete lack of education. If I wasn't such a mild mannered person nor at work, I would have liked to have decked this person right in the mouth. This person doesn't even begin to fathom my grandfather's trauma from actual direct Nazi Facism and their attempts at complete Jewish annhillation-- let alone the generational trauma that the rest of his family carries with us always because there's literally no way to escape the pain and horror of just even knowing (or sometimes not being allowed to know entirely) what my grandfather endured. There is no word that properly describes what REAL Facism has done to my family-- the anger and pain I feel on his behalf, to have no way to have somehow retroactively saved him from experiences he was forced to have-- as a young boy no less. And, at the same time the gratefulness that he had the strength to rebuild something he should never have been stripped of in the first place-- including his humanity. I ached for him even when I was a young child and was old enough to kind of understand. And, I thank Hashem everyday that he is not alive anymore to see what is happening, history repeating itself. He was already such a complicated person from it all (very understandably), I have no idea what this would have done to him a second time around if he were to see it. It is appalling to me how easy it is for people without this trauma to flit around words like "fascism" as if they are as light as air and without consequence, but in actuality have heavy historical actual meaning and weight to them that continues to burden Jewish families to this day!!

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u/Suspicious-Nebula475 24d ago

Goy-splain is a great term

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u/fantasticplastick 16d ago

thanks, I've never heard anyone else use it but it's a solid staple in our household. 

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 06 '25

Me too. Anymore it just seems to mean “someone who disagrees with 21st century liberals.” Before that it was conservatives with eyerolling terms like “Islamofascist.”

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u/thegilgulofbarkokhba 24d ago

Before that it was conservatives with eyerolling terms like “Islamofascist.”

That is a thing that exists though.

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u/WantAllMyGarmonbozia Aug 01 '25

The "there must be some reason behind it" is a really insidious part of all. People had too much going on their lives to research why exactly a small minority deserve harsh treatment so they'd rationalize it. And so many do the same today. But, doing research today is a whole lot easier. Unfortunately though - if you go to social media looking for "why zionists are bad" you'd get soooo much misinformation. I can see how people who "did the research" when from apathy to activism. And then from there's it's a feedback spiral.

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u/NoTopic4906 Aug 01 '25

Disinformation more than misinformation. Misinformation is when you accidentally misreport something. Disinformation is when it is intentionally put out to be spread knowing that it is not true.

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u/frostrambler Aug 02 '25

Did you see that podcast making the rounds where the woman defends hitler because the Germans did it because of something the Jews probably did? Eerily similar.

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u/seercloak30005 Progressive Aug 02 '25

Yep, the podcast is called Fresh & Fit. Total cesspit of misogyny where two male hosts have a gaggle of women and then kick any out that try to argue with them. Recently they’ve been focussing on antisemitism which seems to be more lucrative for them. And of course when this woman starts talking about how Hitler had the right idea but just went about it the wrong way, there’s enthusiastic nodding and grinning from the hosts. They got banned off YouTube but still have platforms on other sites.

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u/soap_and_waterpolo Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Yeah actually doing your own research is hard, it's a learned skill, and it also involves recognizing when you can't be sure of the info you're finding.

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u/ilesmay Aug 02 '25

You should research anything before you take a firm stance behind it.

Recognising the information is potentially misinformation is (one of) the first steps in doing your own research.

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u/soap_and_waterpolo Aug 02 '25

I agree and I'm genuinely confused why I'm being downvoted here.

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u/WantAllMyGarmonbozia Aug 02 '25

Yeah IDK either - Just wanted to say it wasn't me!

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u/anncartersb Aug 01 '25

Perfectly written and really reminded me of C.P. Taylor’s Good. The “they were mostly ordinary people” aspect really doesn’t talked about enough. It’s been really unsettling watching it starting in the last two years.

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u/WeWereGoonersFirst Aug 01 '25

There’s an excellent book called “They Thought They Were Free” about ten ordinary Germans who belonged to the Nazi Party to varying degrees before and during the war. Highly recommend for this exact subject.

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u/seercloak30005 Progressive Aug 02 '25

I went to the Sydney Jewish Museum a year or two ago and embarrassingly only then learned about Kristallnacht. I’m Jewish. They taught us about Hitler and the holocaust at school but they never explained the slow descent of cruelty leading up to it. There needs to be way more education on the how of facism, not just the where and when.

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u/swarleyknope Aug 02 '25

This was my takeaway after reading “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larsen. It’s the non-fiction story of the rise of the 3rd Reich through the perspective of the American Ambassador to Germany at that time.

It had never occurred to me how “normal” Germany was around that time before. I read that at least 15 years ago and that stuck with me ever since.

Too many people don’t recognize this and think that when folks make Nazi comparisons, they are referring to the cartoonish villain version. They don’t grasp that Nazis were just regular people.

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u/FlipDaly Aug 02 '25

There was that one character in Andor who showed up mid-series with cheek scars - I knew immediately he must be based on Rudolph Diels, because of In The Garden of Beasts.

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u/swarleyknope Aug 02 '25

I keep forgetting to watch Andor!

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u/DragonAtlas Aug 02 '25

I went to a museum in London a few days ago and there was a display about 1936 and I my stomach immediately tightened and I started to really stress, and then I realized that everything was great, it was about clothing fashion and dance trends and what music was popular, like nothing was happening, like it was all fine. The luxury, the incredible privilege to see the numbers of those years and not immediately think, "oh god this is going to be horrific."

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u/Accomplished-Bike407 Aug 03 '25

This, and on top of it, if you asked a random German about concentration camps, even the ones who didn't live far from one, they would have said they had no idea what was happening. Sure, they sent Jews to other places but it must have been work camps or more likely detention centers, they had "no idea" about death camps or that Germany was systematically murdering Jews

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u/Anxious-Chemistry-6 Aug 01 '25

It's interesting that, while fascism is rising in the states, it missing a lot of what you described. Mainly the idea that things are going well. So many are struggling financially, that pretending like everything is normal isn't an option for lost of us. One of the ways Hitler got popular early on was by bringing some degree of stability to Germany, which is the opposite of what trump and the GOP are doing. And the left wing/Islamic fascism is no more stable. People are polite, educated, and otherwise decent people in the US. They're violent, rude, loud.

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u/Venat14 Aug 01 '25

I think the problem though is while things are not going well in the US, most people aren't really doing anything about it. People complain about how bad things are getting, but they still refuse to blame Trump/the GOP. Or they might casually blame them on social media, and be like "I still support you, but I'm struggling!"

Americans just feel apathetic to how bad things are getting here, which allows the government to keep increasing the fascism and suffering.

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u/thegilgulofbarkokhba 24d ago

All of this. All of it.

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u/Tulip_Todesky Aug 01 '25

We just heard about a Nurse in Netherlands that says she is proud to inject Jews with twice the dosage so they die. Apparently, there is no outrage about this except from the Jewish community.

The world is filled with disgusting humans and many of them are on Reddit, sniffing each-other’s farts.

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u/superfire444 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

I'm from The Netherlands and it hasn't hit the big news media here. I've learned about it from the Israel subreddit. Wonder when the dutch media will report it. Very disturbing.

Edit: apparently this was reported on 30-7 by one of the biggest newspapers in the country. Couldn't find other sources yet.

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u/Tulip_Todesky Aug 01 '25

Extremely disturbing that there is a trend to not report on these things. Makes me feel like I’m a conspiracy nut, but this actually feels deliberate.

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u/soap_and_waterpolo Aug 02 '25

Honestly I'd be fine with this not being reported, if they didn't also report on other isolated incidents.

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u/yumyum_cat Aug 01 '25

Wait, what? Surely she’s been arrested?

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u/Tulip_Todesky Aug 01 '25

She claimed that her identity had been stolen. She deleted all her social media accounts and was arrested for questioning. She also plans to file against identity theft. Even though it is clear that it was her.

The crazy thing is how only Jewish news channels are reporting on this.

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u/yumyum_cat Aug 01 '25

So she wasn’t arrested? She brags about killing people and she’s not arrested? This ought to be easy to clear up. Did Jess die on her watch or no? One autopsy of this is over.

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u/Tulip_Todesky Aug 01 '25

She needs to be arrested just for saying that she's killing Jews and have her license revoked. This isn't a joking matter. She wrote things like “You know what I'm doing with Zionists—giving an extra injection as a nurse specialist. Letting it to go heaven!" and
“Haha, try your best! I don’t have a boss—I’m the boss! All Zionists can die, inside healthcare and beyond, and I’m happy to help with that!”

Authorities acted but it's not said in what way except for her being investigated.

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u/Double_Morning_3827 19d ago

Maybe the person who hacked her was the same one who hacked Elmo /s

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u/MrDNL Aug 01 '25

Source, for anyone else wondering: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1xcsh9vlg

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u/Alternative-Dare4690 Aug 02 '25

She is muslim nurse

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u/Ahad_Haam Secular Israeli Jew Aug 01 '25

It's not the first time, it happened in other countries too. Australia and the UK if I remember correctly?

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u/Tulip_Todesky Aug 01 '25

In Australia there was a similar incident with two nurses

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u/Alternative-Dare4690 Aug 02 '25

You forgot the part where she is a 'Muslim' nurse. 

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u/Pretty_Peach8933 Israeli Jew. I'm funnier in Hebrew Aug 03 '25

Well, she said Zionists, not Jews, so it's totally fine. \s

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u/lunarinterlude Aug 01 '25

People want to virtue signal about "Nazis" only because their view of Nazis is some vague fascist concept that has absolutely nothing to do with antisemitism. There's a reason they're so quick to call Israelis Nazis and claim that Gaza is the new Holocaust.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Well said

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u/gooberhoover85 Conservative Aug 02 '25

Bingo

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u/kosherkitties Chabadnik and mashgiach Aug 03 '25

Best bot.

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u/thegilgulofbarkokhba 24d ago

They quickly divorce Nazis from antisemitism and try to minimize it.

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u/External_Ad_2325 Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

In the UK, a Holocaust survivor recently remarked that the political atmosphere "feels a lot like the 1930s", which doesn't surprise but does shock me.

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u/Tofutits_Macgee Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

That typo should be name applied to the 'cause' and people wanting to eradicate Israel

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u/FlipDaly Aug 01 '25

I spoke recently to a man who was a key figure in the us civil rights movement in the 50s. He said he felt now was worse.

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u/GH19971 Aug 01 '25

Please tell us more about that conversation

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u/FlipDaly Aug 02 '25

He said he felt the people in charge now were more unpredictable and corrupt.

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u/balanchinedream Aug 01 '25

Dark lol.

Just wrapping up my shift casually sowing doubt in peoples’ antisemitic views and requesting sources for their uninformed claims. I see you all out there in the comments! Ain’t much but it’s honest work

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u/Blue_Giraffe-Dragon Aug 01 '25

This tweet is so disturbingly accurate it's scary

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u/FlipDaly Aug 01 '25

I dunno, frankly, every online news source and author that I am connected to has been screaming FASCISM for months on end and none of them give a shit about jeans. I think this is probably another ‘look what those stupid leftists are mad about’ fiction.

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u/thegilgulofbarkokhba 24d ago

It's not a fiction. Showing how leftists often repeat right wing talking points about Jews or show apathy, pretending to "regulate antisemitism better" in their circles is an absolute issue

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u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32 Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

Replace “did nothing” with “justified it” or even “celebrated” and it will be more accurate 💀

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u/getitoffmychestpleas Four magen davids :D Aug 01 '25

I wish this was satire, I really do.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

The blue jean ad is a play on words

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

No it’s not!!! It’s the Fourth Reich!!!! /s

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

It’s a commercial Unless the the company is Nazi affiliated ffs

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

It is, centered around a dumb, harmless dad joke that Leftist pants-shitters have decided is a white supremacist dog whistle.

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u/clockworkrockwork The Invisible Jew Aug 01 '25

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u/mr_delete Aug 01 '25 edited Aug 01 '25

What this about a blue Jean ad? Sorry out of the loop I guess.

On EDIT: Thanks responders. I am assuming the ad described in this article is the one relevant to the post: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/style/sydney-sweeney-jeans-american-eagle-ad.html

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u/MKornberg Aug 01 '25

Sydney Sweeney did an ad for American Eagle jeans in which they make jokes about her having “good genes/jeans” because she is hot therefore “good genes” and the ad is saying she had good jeans. People are freaking out about it because she is blonde hair and blue eyes saying it promotes eugenics. They obviously didn’t mean it like that. They could have chosen any hot woman and made the same joke.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Right ? My mom was a green eyed blond Jewish girl

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u/FlipDaly Aug 01 '25

Have you actually seen anyone freak out? I’ve only seen a) people saying other people were stupid for freaking out or b) people explaining why other people were freaking out.

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u/MKornberg Aug 01 '25

I’ve seen people say it’s “Nazi propaganda”

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u/FlipDaly Aug 02 '25

Who? Random internet people? Any mainstream or semi-mainstream liberal news outlets, podcasts, bloggers, Bluesky accounts, opinion columnists?

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u/MKornberg Aug 02 '25

More just random internet people. It’s stupid but I still have seen it.

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u/sonicking12 Aug 02 '25

And as usual, a random internet people is way more influential than a prominent politician like Ted Cruz commenting on it

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u/gatorspader Aug 01 '25

Yeah all I’ve seen is right wing media make a few random internet posters go viral and using that to pretend that democrats/the left are up in arms. Meanwhile I haven’t seen anyone notable on the left care about it at all. 

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u/ComprehensiveRatio91 Aug 08 '25

If anyone believes that Sydney Sweeney’s blonde hair is at all related to her genes, send them my way because I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.

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u/noquantumfucks Aug 01 '25

Hayllno! Blue jeans are as american as french frys!

Wait, shit...

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u/Enfr3 Aug 01 '25

Technically, yeah, but why are you phrasing like you're complaining about "the woke"?

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u/TND_is_BAE ✡️ Former Reform-er ✡️ Aug 02 '25

I hadn't even heard about the Sidney Sweeney "controversy" until I saw something on the front page earlier today. People were arguing that it doesn't matter how deeply-coded a Nazi dogwhistle is, it's still Nazism.

This, from people who likely excuse "globalize the intifada," "river to the sea," all the "anti-Zionist" hate speech that's really just mad-libbed antisemitism, etc.

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u/Sudden_Honeydew9738 Aug 01 '25

This is the context of the Neimoller poem gentiles love ignoring.

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u/Woodwalker22 Aug 03 '25

Approximately 20% of Nazis had advanced degrees. Even some Jewish people didn't think Germans were capable of what they eventually did as Germans were looked upon as living in the land of opera and art. Remember education without morality has no value.

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u/efficient_duck egalitarian Aug 04 '25

My former (German) technical university introduced extensive ethics codes for experiments after the denazification and added more humanities to its curriculum to prevent anything remotely like that and to foster diversity and acceptance. To add the morality part and make sure it remains.

After Oct 7th, the president of the university liked some controversial, and some factually antisemitic tweets (e.g. pictures of a protest where Netanyahu was depicted with a swastika, but later defended herself as not having seen that symbol). She then was defended by the u university's coordinator on combating anti semitism, who also uses the less widely accepted definition of antisemitism, and had convenienly been appointed just a few weeks before, by herself. 

Not to mention the violent occupations and partial destruction of University halls at other universities, or physical violence towards individuals (see Lahav Shapir). In the meantime, diversity groups are advertising their help towards all affected by discrimination - of course with a "postcolonial" in their invitation. 

It seems like the morality is now overshooting, but not necessarily being extended to Jews. So many years, and nothing truly learned.

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u/Chance_Adhesiveness3 Aug 03 '25

Here’s the thing though… the loudest voices yelling about antisemitism also aren’t yelling about the vandalized synagogues or the governor’s house or the murdered event goers— they’re yelling about anything that might suggest that there’s something wrong with what Israel is doing in Gaza. It’s all very grotesque.

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u/jacobningen Aug 03 '25

I mean i tend to yell about the Marijuana defense and Lev Marhabi still being in jail 10 years later.

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u/CrazyGreenCrayon Kugel Maker Aug 03 '25

Really? Because we've been yelling ourselves hoarse...

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u/Chance_Adhesiveness3 Aug 03 '25

A few people have. By and large, the self proclaimed antisemitism watchdogs have spent orders of magnitude more time yelling about Zohran Mamdani saying (and then walking back) that, while he doesn’t use the phrase “globalize the intifada,” he doesn’t think it’s inherently antisemitic than they have yelling about the governor’s house being set on fire or the two random Jewish event attendees being murdered put together. It might be that fighting antisemitism may not be their top priority.

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u/kandyman94 Aug 01 '25

So fucking spot on.

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u/Suburbking Just Jewish Aug 02 '25

Sometimes, a jeans ad, is just a jeans ad. Especially, because its a copy of another jeans ad from the 80s.

Stop listening to social media, use your brain. The right wing threat that you are so worried about is way overblown. What you really need to be worried about is who is actually calling for yoyr death, the death of the state of Israel. Open your eyes folks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Had me until the blue jeans thing. It’s not offensive, and I don’t want to give fake leftists a reason to go “NAZISM” when they don’t support Jews any time they actually point things out that are really antisemitic.

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u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32 Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

That’s the point. The people who “did nothing” every single time Jews were attacked suddenly felt the need to scream Nazism and eugenics over a stupid jeans pun

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 01 '25

Isn’t it interesting how the people who shat themselves over any perceived “erasure of the [X] experience” have zero issues de-judaifying the Holocaust?

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u/CrazyGreenCrayon Kugel Maker Aug 03 '25

No. It isn't interesting or surprising. I know a lot of people find it hard to believe, but those circles were always quick to erase Jewish experiences, either because "Religion is bad" and Judaism is a religion or because "Jews are White" and white people are privileged and should be shamed and humbled in every possible way.

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u/The_Wolf_Shapiro Just Jewish Aug 03 '25

Oh, I know. I was being ironic because they’re such fucking hypocrites.

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u/hihihi373 Aug 01 '25

Yeah this was my first read too. Then on second read I was like aha! Yes, that’s the point!

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Yeah maybe too early in the morning for me lol

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u/mtct67 Aug 03 '25

That’s a brilliant reworking. I showed it to my husband, who didn’t understand why it spoke to me, until he

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u/hikergent Aug 04 '25

time to be proud Jews.

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u/MidwestMama08 23d ago

I never thought I would live in a world where a vocal minority controlled the Democratic Party and spouted anti-Semitic views while not being cast out by their peers. As much as I hate to say, our current President has spent more time holding the institutions our families built accountable for their anti-Semitism than any Democrat currently is. It is disgusting that these people are awarding celebrated terrorism.

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u/icenoid Aug 01 '25

The worst part about that ad is that while I don't really like it, they seem to be hyperventilating over a crap ad featuring a crap actress.

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u/iscreamforicecream90 Aug 03 '25

Is there anything we can do? It's feeling so hopeless. We are so few in number comparatively and there's so much hatred and lies. 

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u/Moizoos978 Aug 03 '25

I am feeling this myself more and more as the days pass. I live in the north east U.S which holds a massive Jewish population so I never really was affected by anti semitism growing up. I was certainly aware of it and heard the occasional Jew conspiracy theory but nothing that really altered my life. Whats incredibly frightening in my opinion is social media. These algorithms are constantly regurgitating anti-jewish propaganda wether it be the war in Israel, anti Zionism; under the guise of anti semitism of course, and now straight facist content such as how Hitler was misunderstood. It seems so random, how did it get to this? All these podcasters, musicians, political commentators, and others that I used to look up to and agree with are talking about how evil Jews are. And so suddenly! The comment section is even worse, 1930’s caricatures of the hook-nosed greedy Jew. Making fun of the October massacre how we deserve it and more should have died. This used to be prevalent on obscure websites such as bitchute but it’s absolutely drowing all social media currently.

I apologize for the lengthy tirade but I grew up believing that what is current happening would be impossible. I now believe that we should focus more on our communites and stop turning our backs on each other. To educate ourselves on our history. To have more Jewish babies. And whether or not you agree with me, purchasing firearms and learning how to use them.

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u/iscreamforicecream90 Aug 05 '25

Agree with every word, and same exact experience that I've had growing up 

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u/CrazyGreenCrayon Kugel Maker Aug 03 '25

We can pray. We can prepare. The only way to fight antisemitism is to be more Jew-ish.

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u/teddyburke Aug 02 '25

This is kind of missing the point of the original poem. There’s a whole lot of shit that needs to take place before a permission structure is established for open antisemitism.

In the original it’s the communists, the socialists, and the trade unionists, before the Jews.

You fight fascism with leftist politics. It doesn’t matter if the Jews are ultimately being the ones targeted. The point is that nobody is safe once we go down certain paths.

It didn’t begin with “they came for the Jews” 90 years ago, and that’s not how it began today.

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u/DrMikeH49 Aug 02 '25

When Leftist politics also has a permission structure for antisemitism, that’s not keeping Jews safe.

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u/Mor-Bihan Aug 04 '25

Except you forgot how communists also did their part through a different path.

Not to shit on leftists or communists.

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u/mt_sighnai Aleph Bet Aug 02 '25

Most YouTube channels and especially the comments are turning into the Cabaret film (1972).

And a bunch of them genuinely think they “have no place to speak.” While that is just not true, right now, almost anywhere.

A lot of layman’s Jewish verbiage and rhetoric has been co-opted and twisted to fit their goals. When they took the “first they came for my…” story, was a turning point for things in US.

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u/radiopartyroadie Aug 03 '25

Yep, it was an unfortunate play on words. I can't understand why people are so offended by this.

Also, the family that owns AE is Jewish.

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u/CrazyGreenCrayon Kugel Maker Aug 03 '25

Thank you for explaining.

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u/PersonalPercentage17 Aug 04 '25

Your wrong they did not come for us Jews you crackhead.

We kept them in erosion after taking over their land and then say it’s ours

We don’t need fake occupied Homeland to be good Jews. Let them Have their land and we can deliberate our own lives in our own communities!