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Israel Carries Out Airstrike On Syrian Capital (english.iswnews.com)

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[+] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I am not saying the person is anti-Semitic, I'm saying it's a dog whistle and I am criticizing their use of it. There is no mischaracterization going on here.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My "There is no micharacterization going on here" shirt is raising a lot of questions etc etc

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

It turns out I was expressing a false belief.

I had falsely believed that calling Jews "dogs" was a long anti-Semitic tradition. I did more research and discovered that actually historically they were called rats and lice and very few examples exist of anti-semitics tropes comparing Jews and dogs.

The most salient example of that was an American trend to hang a sign on your shop that said "No Jews or dogs allowed", but that doesn't meet the standard of what I had believed.