I’ve had several instances in the past few weeks in which I’ve spoken to otherwise politically oblivious people and heard actual condemnation of the genocide. Followed up with the conflation of Israel with Jews, ascribing all the awful shit the piece of shit country to Jews in general.

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right after the Al-Aqsa Flood my dad was pontificating about how the illegal Zionist entity was a a forward defensive post, guardian western civilization against the barbarian islamic hordes. A beacon of democracy, intelligence and civilization, surrounded by evil villains. The Jewish people were presenting as some super-intelligent, super-civilized super-westerners.

The other day he unprompted told me that the zionists were committing genocide and that the illegal zionist entity should never have been founded in the first place. He then veered into talking about how it was "the Jews" who were doing the atrocities.

There are only so many massacres you can witness before you start thinking the perpetrators are the baddies.

[–] PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd say that your dad’s previous opinion about the Jews was just plain antisemitism, except he held them up on a pedestal, holding the Jews up as superhuman or something. And now he feels the opposite about the Jews, he thinks they are scum, similar views that the Nazis had. It's still antisemitism.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Bingo. Western philosemitism is just another face of antisemitism.