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Lils's avatar

I was also wondering how one could take that Rabbi's 'confession' at face value and consequently blame "the" Jews for the bubonic plague. It's a stretch, or rather quite a leap, an implausible and quite unnecessary one. The official story of plague doctors is indeed weird and fishy, but to throw in the mix the antisemitic notion of well-poisoning Jews, coordinatedly conspiring all over Europe? That is just repeating stereotypes and adds no layer of sense whatsoever.

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Elsa's avatar

In fact, it is more than " just repeating stereotypes and adds no layer of sense whatsoever." People were not doing a lot of travelling. All of sudden you have Jews throughout Europe (and anywhere else the Plague hit) all being aware and travelling everywhere, seeking out each and every well (with a plentiful supply of poison!!) - as if they nahd nothing better to do. All of a sudden, nothing makes sense.

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Sterling's avatar

You talk like Europe was extremely primitive but that's obviously not the case. Extensive trade networks go back to ancient Greece at least.

And of course they didn't have to poison every well, just many of the biggest ones.

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Sixway's avatar

Also, attacking any criticism of anyone jewish with cries of antisemitism doesn't mean it is automatically invalid. You can't even question the need for genocide of Palestinians without being called Hitler.

Besides that, it's not all jews. Just the ones in power. And everyone in power is a psychopath.

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Proton Magic's avatar

I'ts the satanic occultists who hide behind being Jewish. They are happy to have you be angry at Jews until you turn blue.

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Lils's avatar

Then be specific, please. Speaking of "the Jews" as evil is an absurd generalization that is invalid and has historically been used to incite violence and hate against a group of people.

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Sixway's avatar

And that is exactly the tactic used when there is any criticism of the government of Israel or any psychopath making decisions who happens to be jewish. I don't care if someone is jewish or not. I care about calling out psychopaths as being evil. It's the jewish psychopaths who cry antisemitism when being criticized. It is historically how criticism is completely stifled.

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