Last week, a Utah magnate accused Jews of committing genocide using covid vaccines. It seemed like a fringe, even funny, story. But it's not. The false allegation of Jewish genocide has been pushed everywhere from Fox News to Hollywood. I wrote about why: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
Why do people love accusing Jews of genocide? Because it "weaponizes the greatest Jewish trauma against Jewish people. There is no better way to hurt someone than to fashion their own most painful experience into a club with which to beat them." washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Casting Jews as the perpetrators of a new, fictitious Holocaust frees non-Jews from the obligation to learn the lessons of the actual Holocaust." washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
"Making the Jews guilty of genocide doesn’t just obviate non-Jewish guilt for permitting Jewish genocide. It also justifies the next Jewish genocide." washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…
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Did you see that clip of the CDC director claiming that people who died of covid were mostly those with comorbidities? Well, here's the full footage, where you can see that was a deceptive edit. She was actually talking about VACCINATED people who died of covid, not unvaccinated.
The CDC director cited a study showing vaccines work and that only those who are already very unwell die from covid after vax. Point: Get vaccinated b/c covid is much more dangerous if you're not. Twitter partisans then pushed a misleading clip of her words implying the opposite.
At this point, if you see anyone pushing the deceptively cut clip, or refusing to correct and remove their viral tweet of the false clip, you should judge and discount their future claims accordingly.
This bizarre blurb for a new staging of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice is an alphabet soup of every prejudice except the one that actually appears in the play: tfana.org/current-season…
Presumably the text of the play will make the anti-Semitism impossible to escape, but I guess whoever wrote this blurb figured that would not be a draw for their audience. Curious what the company itself thinks of how they're being advertised!
While we're on the subject of the Merchant of Venice and antisemitism, I highly recommend Dara Horn's essay on the topic and on how we are educated not to see prejudice that is right in front of our faces. We talked about it back in November: newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61…
"Okay, now that we’ve dispensed with Israel-Palestine, it’s time to tackle something less controversial: critical race theory." My latest newsletter, in which I answer reader questions: newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61…
This is obviously pathetic on the dad's part, but also a good example of why the Bidens should have named their new dog "Brandon"
Guy was a jerk on a Christmas call for children with the president, and since there's no defense for that, he needs to be preemptively turned into the victim of this exchange with some bizarro fan fiction. Can't defend, so fantasize instead.
If you want to see how Twitter breaks people's brains and causes them to treat other human beings in cruel and pathetic ways for no real purpose, I encourage you to read these replies, then go spend some time with your family and friends doing something more worthwhile.
My latest: Yair Lapid, the architect of Israel's new government, wants to unite the country’s Jewish and Arab mainstream against anti-democratic extremists. But will he find enough takers? My profile of the man slated to be Israel's next prime minister: newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61…
Yair Lapid to me on why he has been pushing civil equality for Israel's Arab community: “When you are a citizen in a democratic country, you deserve the same rights as everyone else... It kind of amazes me that there is even a question mark on this.” newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61…
Other Lapid lines:
- On patriotism: "You can’t talk from morning until evening about how much you love this country if you hate most of the people that live in it."
- On Israel's treatment of its Arabs: "There are no second-class citizens in a country that respects itself."
If someone wanted to do some genuine good in the world, they'd cut this into a simple ad and run it on Fox News and targeting Trump voters on Facebook. Boosters are the best defense against Omicron, and everyone deserves that chance.
Not surprised Trump got the booster. Pleasantly surprised that he publicly pushed it. He also reportedly said: “We saved tens of millions worldwide by creating the vaccine… We should take credit for it and you play right into their hands [when you doubt it].” Put it in the ad!
Here's the video of Trump hyping the vaccines to his followers—and getting them to cheer—telling them to take credit for the vaccine drive which "saved tens of millions worldwide." Turn this into an ad and run it on Fox, Newsmax, OANN, and Facebook.