QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded

[Nevilledog]

https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/

A secret cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.

Does this conspiracy theory sound familiar? It is. The same narrative has been repackaged by QAnon.

I have studied and worked to prevent genocide for forty years. Genocide Watch and the Alliance Against Genocide, the first international anti-genocide coalition, see such hate-filled conspiracy theories as early warning signs of deadly genocidal violence.

The plot, described above, was the conspiracy “revealed” in the most influential anti-Jewish pamphlet of all time. It was called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was written by Russian anti-Jewish propagandists around 1902. It collected myths about a Jewish plot to take over the world that had existed for hundreds of years. Central to its mythology was the Blood Libel, which claimed that Jews kidnapped and slaughtered Christian children and drained their blood to mix in the dough for matzos consumed on Jewish holidays.

The Nazis published a children’s book of the Protocols that they required in the curriculum of every primary school in Germany. The Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer (derived from the German word for “Storm”) spread the Blood Libel. Hitler’s Mein Kampf, his narcissistic autobiography and manifesto for his battle against the Jewish plot to rule the world, copied his conspiracy theories from the Protocols.

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[chowder66]

1. Propaganda and Social Media are a dangerous mix.

Propaganda is reaching people at light speed and those that buy into it are finding each other easily online and in turn feeding off of each other and their conspiracy addictions.

How do you stop a freight train of disinformation and the consumption of it?

[people]

2. Q'Anon . . .

I knew there was an anti-semetic strain among them but I didn't realize their crap was so close to the Protocols. With the fires here in the west, the neo-nazi crazies everywhere - wish this were a different time . . . sad that so many Americans are so dumb, hateful and willing to believe this. T has truly lifted up all the rocks enough for them to come out and multiply.

[crickets]

3. Damn. Edited to add:

The sharper focus on Qanon brings into question the timing behind the recent FBI tweet.

‘Wildly irresponsible’: FBI bashed for tweeting link to anti-Semitic ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ AUG 20

For more than a century, the fabricated text “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” has advanced a persistent anti-Semitic trope: that Jews are plotting to take over the world. From Hitler to Henry Ford, rabid anti-Semites have long shared the notorious text.

On Wednesday, an FBI Twitter account did the same. An account called FBI Records Vault tweeted out a link to a PDF containing the anti-Semitic tome as well as FBI documents related to it, with no other context, leaving critics baffled and outraged. [snip]

“Earlier today FOIA materials were posted to the FBI’s Vault and FOIA Twitter account via an automated process without further outlining the context of the documents,” the tweet said. “We regret that this release may have inadvertently caused distress among the communities we serve.” [snip]

But critics bashed the agency for the lack of context in the tweet linking to the files.

“You are WILDLY IRRESPONSIBLE for tweeting this document without offering any context and framework to ensure that anyone looking at this document understands that it is one of the most dangerous embodiments of anti-Semitism ever produced,” tweeted Emily Pressman, a history teacher in Delaware.

Warning from the FBI? Encouragement for Qanon? WTH?

[uponit7771]

4. Nazi 2.0 no doubt

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Of course it is.

It also is being used to attack the Queer community, especially gay men...again! Anti-semitism never goes out of vogue!