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Agreed.
Agreed.
Potentially inadvertently, due to 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.
Had you said "Israel is a plague of rats that needs to be exterminated", I believe I would have been justified in calling you out for using a dogwhistle. As it stands, however, I was wrong.
I don't know what your blood is, so rest assured I implied nothing due to it.
Additionally, I had no intention of implying you supported genocide. My intention was to accuse you of using dangerous language to express your perfectly valid point. Again, I was wrong about my beliefs of the history of those words.
I apologize.