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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:34 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:31 pm
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Perhaps you can imagine it is a hard thing for the police to solve a murdercase from 25 years ago, imagine 2000 years and a really poor administration system?
The truth is.. we don't have any clue of what went on back then, assuming an event had occured as was written in the Christian manual, at least 1500 years after the event.
The hatred on jews was fed by stories like this, by people who had something to gain from that. I don't know what that might be and I don't really care to be honest. Whatever it was, it will never justify the holocaust in any way.
The jews just came into our society and did very well for themselves. Or perhaps some of them didn't, but the fact remained that they came uninvited. As always, bad stuff happened. People needed to point at something, or rather.. someone! Ah jews! And voila: second world war is a fact. All the hatred against jews from before that was maybe some shot in the same dark direction?
Anyway it's ridiculous. But interesting as a topic, I agree.
(edit: and I love the boots on your avi btw, what are those? biggrin )
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:49 pm
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The history of antisemitism is one of conspiracy theories.
There are a couple of different reasons people look for phantoms: wanting someone to blame for their problems, wanting to live in a more exciting world, wanting to feel like they know something others don't, wanting to define their own culture in opposition to a different one.
Whatever the reason, the desire exists, and it manifests in very many forms. But as Plugabugz suggested, it is most often directed at the outsider. And Jews, who were first made outsiders in their own country and then had to live as outsiders in the rest of the world, have been a very convenient target for this desire.
There is also a state-sponsored antisemitism, which I think is partly to please the people and partly to create a more homogeneous state that is easier to rule: The Romans hated that the Jews were not polytheists, the Russian czar hated them for being a different race (not technically true), as did Hitler, Stalin feared that religious Jews plotted against him. In all these examples, the rulers of a totalitarian state were able to make their people happy and silence dissenters with one stroke.
Jews are not the only people who get fingered by conspiracy theorists, but I there is a kind of snowball effect going on. As an example: When the Black Death hit Europe, the Christians somehow came to believe that it had been caused by Jews poisoning the wells. This story was reinvented when the czarist secret police wanted to make up allegations against Russian Jews. Then WW1 came and went, and many German officers could not understand how they had lost they lost; but then somebody who had heard all these old conspiracy tales came to suspect that many of the Jews who fought in the German army had betrayed their own country, and this became a widespread belief in Germany and helped the rise of the Nazi party.
Once there is one bad rumor about you, another may follow, and then the snowball gets rolling. And suddenly you are history's favorite victim.
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:07 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:20 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:40 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:46 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:16 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:37 pm
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