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Jan 11, 2023Liked by The Opinionated Ogre

You sir; are a gentleman and a genius! I wish to copy this and hand deliver it to my ex-laws. The believe all of the conspiracy theories and are "Jewish."

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Thank you! They are, unfortunately, in for a rude awakening.

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I simply can’t understand the white supremacist mind set. Even at those times in my life when I have been overwhelmingly hurt by/enraged at someone it wasn’t something I could turn into a hate against an entire group. I couldn’t even sustain that feeling at that level against the individual did have a legit grievance against.

So there’s a part of me that just can’t believe it’s that bad. (Or that it could ever “happen here”.) but I also *know* that what you wrote is absolutely true and it is that bad. I don’t believe it but I also absolutely do.

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I don't enjoy it but it's like being a serial killer profiler. It's unhealthy to be able to think like these soulless monsters but it's necessary or you'll never see it coming.

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It’s an odd mental split. I don’t really believe (or I don’t really WANT to believe, therefore I don’t believe) the storm is really coming.

But I am going around the house battening down the windows and stocking up on provisions.

But I don’t really believe I need to.

But I do know that I have to do it to be safe.

I can’t convince my mind to believe it’s true, but I am convinced it is.

🔃🔄🔁

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😵‍💫

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Jan 10, 2023Liked by The Opinionated Ogre

I read The Turner Diaries a few years ago. Subject matter aside, it is one poorly written book. I tried reading The Protocols of Zion but it was just too damn boring, so I read a graphic novel by Will Eisner, called The Plot. It tells the story of how the book came to be and who was responsible for publishing it

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FYI, you’ve a couple extra characters at the end of this link that keep it from working:

“the Romans were quite fond of persecuting Jews”

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Fixed! Thanks!

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My daughter and I were discussing this the other day. I can’t, for the life of me, understand how a person can hate someone they have never met. We are all just people trying to live our best lives. I just don’t get it.

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It's the only thing that gives their lives meaning.

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That’s just sick, and incredibly sad at the same time 😡😢

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Jewish person, not Jew.

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To learn the solution to change Jews from victims to humans not to mess with, see

https://jpfo.org/

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African Americans literally have the entire continent of Africa if they should decide to take a genetic test to find out where their ancestors came from.

It seems that you are suggesting that American Jews "have Israel" which is a deeply anti-Semitic trope. Maybe don't do that? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/jews-disloyal-trump.html

Catholics and Protestants -do- engage in an awful lot of violence against each other over the years. Sectarian violence is not the same thing as waging genocidal war against a single ethnic group, though, is it?

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Israel does nothing to fill that role for the majority of American Jews because they have no ancestral ties to it.

As for your article, what part of it suggests that African Americans cannot locate where their ancestors came from? Can you cut and paste it for me because I read it and it says nothing to support what you appear to be trying to say.

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You don't have to understand it. When a Black person tells you that they suffer from systemic racism in America, do you need to understand it or do you accept it as their reality?

The fact that you "need" to make sense of it all instead of simply accepting what Jews tell you about their lived experience is, quite literally, proving my point.

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I'm not sure what you're driving at here. Are you suggesting that secular Jews, like myself and Ben, who point out the rather deep amount of antisemitism that exists on the left are fear-mongering? Or are you talking about something else when you bring up the "illiberal left?"

I assure you, antisemitism is endemic to the right but it is no stranger to the left.

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"I do not understand how to separate - genetics from religion from zionism from politics. Tell me what the heck Jewishness means in America because at this point I do not know and can't make sense about the "anti-semitic left" so many liberal white Jewish people are worried about."

I think perhaps we're going to end this conversation because you would never, in a million years, interrogate another minority in this fashion. That reality right there should inform you about the invisible antisemitism on the left you claim not to be able to find.

Take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself why you think it's OK to challenge Jews on their lived experience when you would never dare challenge an Asian or a Black person on theirs. Good day and bless your heart.

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