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03/06/24
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Originally posted by Parsifal:
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Jews have been hated for centuries because the Roman’s got jacked of them refusing to shut up and do as they were told. For the most part Romans were able to subdue the people in their empire through a variety of means. The Jews never did quite adapt to Roman rule and so when Christianity became adopted by them centuries after the death of Christ (if you believe that story) they saw Jews as the perfect people to blame. Instead of accepting their own role in his death and treatment as if he were a common thief they blamed it on Jews and so started discrimination and harassment but Jews kept popping up, thriving, finding ways to survive the killing, the pogroms, the discrimination and the exclusion from trades. When they weren’t allowed to do some occupations they found others. some valued education and intellect at a time when the rest of the world was excluded because it belonged only to nobles and priests. They worked hard because they had to and like their gentile contemporaries that sometimes paid off and despite the stereotype of the wealthy Jew many were grindingly poor - no different or maybe worse than their gentile contemporaries. hatred of Jews has been embedded in the subconscious because they may have looked a bit different- though you’d be hard pressed to identify all Jews by appearance, because it was convenient to have a scapegoat and because Catholicism didn’t much like anyone who didn’t do what they said. Unlike the cathars, the templars and other sects the church didn’t approve of they couldn’t wipe them out. the rest of your commentary is a fiction and no different to any antisemitism over centuries. You’d be hard out to give me historical facts to justify your comment that holds true over Millenia basically you are a bigoted antisemite
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@Parsifal ; re your post in response to @green potato which included "... basically you are a bigoted antisemite ". Despite what you post, there you go again - undermining by over inappropriate usage of what used to be an important term of historical significance as if doing such is rational debate when in reality it's just abusive, unsubstantiated, opinionated commentary!