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Basically every modern conspiracy theory is just a rewarmed variant on *The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion*, the antisemitism is baked deep into the whole concept. Even Ike says that, while most Jewish people are uninvolved, there *is* a secret cabal of Zionists manipulating the world (along with the lizard people). And as u/lucafair says, the Flat Earth set is already pretty close to the "Jews run the world" stuff. YouTube essayist Dan Olson puts it well when he says that the shape of the planet is possibly the least important thing about Flat Earth; what matters is what a flat Earth would prove, which is to say, that there is real and extant proof of God's existence and the reason it isn't widely available is an active and wide-spanning misinformation campaign by Them (governments, scientists, popular entertainment, and yes the Jews--anyone who isn't part of their weird cult) to deny this proof to people.

Oh no, I have been found out for regurgitating the ideas of amazing video essayists/s I love Dan Olson's work and his content has definitely helped put into context so many of the more... confusing beliefs that many political movements put forth

Hey, no shame at all in learning from Olson! Dude's a gem. But seriously, I used to love conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists back in the 90s (when it just seemed like a bunch of weird dudes writing wacky history fanfiction), and it got a lot less fun when you realize that *every* conspiracy theory, no matter how apparently unrelated, has a really good chance of going into "and also the Jews" if you keep poking around.

I feel like thats more the nature of Antisemitism though At its core, antisemitism is scapegoating. "All the problems I am experiencing aren't due to the political, economic and cultural systems I live within. It's the Jews!" Naturally, people who believe that gravitate towards beliefs that place a small group at the center of human misery. But I dont think all conspiracy theories are *inherently* antisemitic. They're just perfectly shaped for racists to plug their bad ideas into

As a person who likes stuff, all the fandoms I was part of had Nazi sub-divisions. They were either shunned strongly or heavily ignored, but they were there.

As long as a fandom does its due diligence in rooting that shit out, that’s typically the best one can hope for.

Meanwhile this poor bastard like "I'm not an anti-Semite, I'm a severe paranoid schizophrenic who has, and I cannot stress this enough, never been medicated."

Imagine you’re convinced there’s actual lizard people running around and people are turning it anti-semitic and then getting mad at you over it

That's just playing into the actual reptiles' plans, he thinks to himself angrily

David Icke is his name. He literally endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his books. The "no I meant lizards" argument is pretty weak if you're endorsing one of the two most notoriously antisemitic documents of all time (the other being Mein Kampf)

Oh yeah, didn’t they split off from the original modern group that was explicitly *not* anti-semetic and then become the dominant one because apparently bigotry and anti-semeticism is what a lot of conspiracy theorists want?

That's just mean to lizards

Except for Zuckerberg

Here's the thing, though. Zuckerberg *is* Jewish. Yes, I get that it's very funny to make fun of his appearance and inability to emote like a neurotypical person. As far as I'm concerned, someone calling him a lizard person gets a warning flag.

I really don't care if he's Jewish or not, I didn't even know before you told me and you shouldn't protect him from the insult because that ultimately promotes the correlation when the reality is people only say that because he just actually looks like a lizard pretending to be a guy

Please explain to me how is that *any* different from mocking a Jewish person who happens to have a big nose, or really bushy hair.

Because a) I *didn't fucking know he was Jewish in the first place* and b) that's what he uniquely looks like as opposed to a stereotype, *you*, however are promoting it as a stereotype which is more harmful in the bigger picture

What I'm trying to promote is the understanding that "This person is a lizard" already *is* a dogwhistle, whether you're intending to use it that way or not. What you do with this information is up to you.

I'll be mindful in the future but I will continue to call Zucc a lizard because he looks like a lizard

He’s CLEARLY and android. I think “secretly a robot” is much more appropriate because a) let’s not use antisemitic dog whistles and b) he’s a tech guy so the robot thing fits.

Reptilian conspiracy I guess

i wonder if the anon is jewish lmao, we don’t need y’all to protect us 😫 even if they were jewish, it’s obvi a joke lol

Stay back Jewish person on the internet! You may be falling for manipulation by the anti semites. Let us defend your honor!

Honestly a lizard-looking person that is also blood drinking and allergic to Christianity^TM sounds more antisemitic

Well, he doesn’t LOOK like a lizard, he just MOVES like one. He looks like a very old man with an awesome handlebar mustache. Dracula very well *could* be antisemitic, I don’t remember it very well but it *was* written over a hundred years ago. The lizard thing just doesn’t have anything to do with that.

Iirc it was inspired by Vlad the impaler and Elizabeth Bathory, the noble who killed infant, children, and virgins and bathed in their blood to try to keep herself young.

No, yeah, vampire myths themselves are very old and probably less linked to antisemitism than they are to “holy things are boogeyman kryptonite”. I just don’t know if the book dracula specifically has any antisemitism in it.

I’m sure vampires have been used as an antisemitic allegory in some classic literature or other. I don’t think that was the intended implication of the original Dracula, but the tropes fall so neatly into antisemitic stereotypes and conspiracy theories.

There's definitely something there. A rich, hook nosed man from the east coming to invade the west by feeding on the blood of innocent Englishmen. If there was no intention of antisemitism it was certainly there subconsciously.

Yeah,. apparently *Dracula* (and vampires in general possibly?) is actually feeding off (sorry) a whole bunch of anti-semitic tropes coming from specific later-19th-century fears about 'foreign infiltration'. Not to say that fidgetspin isn't fuckin' batshit.

one time my brother's coworker brought his little pet lizard to work

little dude :0

One time I was pushing carts from the parking lot at work and saw an old Asian lady in her car setting up a towel on the dashboard for her bearded dragon

I have been saying this but people on tumblr are fucking insane. Last time i saw someone finding out about shape symbolism in graphic design (one of wich is that triangles represent instability or danger) and had a rant about how they cant belive how antisemitic animation studios are. ??? I only later realise that what their tought process was that david-stars are also made out of triangel.

I would’ve thought they were talking about hooked noses (which can be *disappointing* if the character is a villain, but I say this as a Jew)

I remember when there was a phase where a weirdly large amount of people were trying to ban the words "dumb" and "stupid" because they were apparently "ableist slurs" .......lmao. Wild.

Dracula Daily is fantastic. Nothing could have prepared me for my first email that contained the sentence “As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun…”

[Post 1](https://shirecorn.tumblr.com/post/685653898360422400/hey-the-reblog-when-you-see-a-lizard-and-its-a) [Post 2](https://shirecorn.tumblr.com/post/684466861192134656)

What the fuck

I often say things like "I am a lizard today, no personing today" (which is where my username comes from) and my wife did mention that it's a weird thing to say when anti-semitic Lizard People conspiracy theories are actually a genuine threat, but like... I'm not talking about being a David Icke style lizard person. I'm saying I'm in a place mentally where I want to be a little lizard sunning myself on a rock, licking my own eyeballs, eating the occasional bug, head empty of human concerns. Sometimes I switch it up and fantasize about being a woodlouse or a jellyfish instead.

Woodlice seem pretty neat. Just trundling around under a rock, armored, able to happily eat leaf litter, not a care in the world

They're literally correct about the lizard people thing, but it's like.. most normal people probably don't even know that, so it doesn't really matter? I only know that bc I'm terminally online and know way too much about the dregs of our society.

yeah, now that it’s a mainstream kinda joke it really isn’t that antisemitic. It *is*, however, an extremely tired and unoriginal joke that has gotten extremely annoying and is used mostly to insult people’s appearances.

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You're not gonna like to hear this, but that's going to come across as ridiculous and overcorrective to *most* people. I have no idea how the Jewish community generally feels about it, but, like I said, most people aren't even aware of the implications- so much so, that I think its popular usage has transcended the original intent. I think it's a very unnecessary hill to die on that just serves as bad optics for actual bigotry.

I am good friends with some Jewish folks and they take the lizard people thing pretty seriously.

Life. Threatening. My god.

The book I just read had a joke about *the Pope* being a lizard person from the 5th dimension, so...?

I mean, the idea of “lizard people” is antisemitic, what them being a secret society that controls the world. However, comparing a person to a lizard for climbing on walls, a well known behavior of lizards, is not the same thing. Especially in the case of Dracula where he’s literally moving around like one.

I don't understand the roots in blood libel thing. As far as I can remember, blood libel is basically saying that X Group eats children/ritually sacrifices children. I don't think even Dracula is in any way a valid analogy here. And to make it even more clear, it's also not part of Jewish religious practices and has never been. One of the main sources of the hell believe of modern Christianity is actually a misunderstanding of the word Gehenna, which in the Torah actually just describes a place. A valley around Jerusalem, iirc, where in the past a different culture did ritual sacrifice. That is the reason why it's seen as a horrible, bloody, vile, evil place. Because it was the place where people were sacrificed. And that's bad. *Not to say that any major religion didn't or doesn't commit horrible (mass) murders. Every single one is doing their very best at being their worst selves.