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Can someone help me understand this? [1]

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Date: 2022-07-26

Kinda seems innocuous, no?

I've read about it for years and known about it for years. I've heard it used as a reason for persecution and assimilation. I've seen it blamed for everything from climate change to vote changing to somehow controlling the world. But I don't get it.

Why does nearly every idiotic hate group hate Jewish people? I don't know the root of this. I don't get why every single ailment that may affect someone must because of "the Jews" or some such nonsense. In my younger days, I dated Jewish women. I am friends with a lot of Jewish people. Hell, I dated a Middle Eastern girl that claimed to be Hawaiian because her last name sounded vaguely Hawaiian (and 17-year-old me didn't know the difference). It didn't make her bad or evil. We dated for almost three years. I ended up married to an Eastern European.

But every single hate group that has suddenly become prominent because, thanks to a single rotten Orange, they became empowered -- they all blame Jews in one way or another. Whether it's Jewish Space Lasers™ or some weirdo secret cabal or secret powers or otherwise somehow a monetary force of untold fortunes and abilities, Jewish people are always accused of somehow being behind all of this.

Weirder still, these people usually claim to be "Christian" of some sort, which is laughable. The last thing these people are are followers of any organized religion. I was raised Catholic and made to go to church until 18 years old. I admittedly haven't been with any regularity since the "freedom" of not having to go to church, but for some people, it's important. Going to (a real) church and following the teachings clearly isn't anywhere close to important to the people claiming to be the strongest advocates of the practice.

But at least in America, the "Evangelical Christian" seems to hate everything not exactly to their liking, which is the opposite of pretty much any real religious teaching. It goes against everything that is said and taught (like, I don't know, the ten commandments), yet it's a crutch constantly leaned on as an excuse for persecution. Even outside of the US, we have various "religious" factions warring against each other in the name of some god that in reality wouldn't agree with a damn thing they say or do.

So, my question is, especially here but seemingly worldwide, why are Jewish people singled out as some master race controlling everything? Is it because some Jewish people are famous or funny or just generally successful? Is it because they've always been the target for some reason? Is there something I just don't get about how you can absolutely hate someone without knowing them at all?

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