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EN5ider #460 - Intriguing Organizations: Unpinned Scales
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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Vardy" data-source="post: 8674100" data-attributes="member: 6913934"><p>I was trying to say that the article uses one of the tropes of Jew-hatred, a trope that is very often deployed with a dogwhistle. To be fair, my assumption was that everyone behind ENSider 460 were just thinking "lets do a fun article where the conspiracy is real". The article is about a group conspiring to create political tension. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they almost all originally made up to persecute Jews.</p><p></p><p>The conspiracy theory that political disorder is secretly caused by Jews goes back at least to the Great French Revolution. From "cultural Marxism" being behind Black Lives Matter to the 20thC Yankee civil rights movement being a Communist Judaeo-Bolshevik plot to opposition to the Tsar being Jewish in the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'... all the way back to French nobles whining that the peasants would have been happy but for the Jews stirring them up. The further you go back the less coded it gets, now it tends to be "outside agitators" back then it was just "devil worshiping Jews". The function of the coding is that most people don't hear the dogwhistle but at least some of the audience will hear "Jews".</p><p></p><p>The Unpinned Scales are very much outside agitators, coming from all over to cause trouble. Even taking orders from Hell, like in Medieval myths about Jews.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Some articles about the history of conspiracy theories, outside agitators, and Jew-hatred. I've tried to keep them short and from a variety of sources. Most of them focus more on the anti-Blackness of the theory but all at least mention the anti-Jewish origins.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2021-02-24/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-the-gop-is-energizing-and-entrenching-antisemitism-in-america/0000017f-ec86-d3be-ad7f-feafc9120000" target="_blank">Soros, ‘cultural Marxism’ and QAnon: How the GOP is energizing and entrenching antisemitism in America | Opinion | Opinion</a> </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/outside-agitator-label-history-trnd/index.html[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/blaming-outside-agitators-is-a-centuries-old-ploy-11591560877[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-black-and-anti-semitic-history-of-outside-agitators-an-interview-with-spencer-sunshine/[/URL]</p><p>[MEDIA=npr]i=873592665;m=873598631[/MEDIA]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/outside-agitators-history-civil-rights.html[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/myth-outside-agitators-everywhere-ignores-192631978.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIRM53FCCYiVZr5rjJ8m0_zrGpItz2n4_D_f5G_C-V9115hGcukXXckyLYqjSGAUizJepLiBtFzH1k6mCm7PaNq7ZnhmOYEPLeMWe5qsz5Lu0vFmz_tT0-ioCt13ftwY843FAa0mSoNexBWxZ-HufzR-_Y4J5f0EDB0NkTaepD4I[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21275720/george-floyd-protests-outside-agitators-ferguson-civil-rights-movement[/URL]</p><p></p><p>This one is mostly about Brietbart but has a good second section about coded anti-Jewishness</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://politicalresearch.org/2018/01/12/steve-bannons-washed-out-antisemitism[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacob Vardy, post: 8674100, member: 6913934"] I was trying to say that the article uses one of the tropes of Jew-hatred, a trope that is very often deployed with a dogwhistle. To be fair, my assumption was that everyone behind ENSider 460 were just thinking "lets do a fun article where the conspiracy is real". The article is about a group conspiring to create political tension. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they almost all originally made up to persecute Jews. The conspiracy theory that political disorder is secretly caused by Jews goes back at least to the Great French Revolution. From "cultural Marxism" being behind Black Lives Matter to the 20thC Yankee civil rights movement being a Communist Judaeo-Bolshevik plot to opposition to the Tsar being Jewish in the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'... all the way back to French nobles whining that the peasants would have been happy but for the Jews stirring them up. The further you go back the less coded it gets, now it tends to be "outside agitators" back then it was just "devil worshiping Jews". The function of the coding is that most people don't hear the dogwhistle but at least some of the audience will hear "Jews". The Unpinned Scales are very much outside agitators, coming from all over to cause trouble. Even taking orders from Hell, like in Medieval myths about Jews. Some articles about the history of conspiracy theories, outside agitators, and Jew-hatred. I've tried to keep them short and from a variety of sources. Most of them focus more on the anti-Blackness of the theory but all at least mention the anti-Jewish origins. [URL="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2021-02-24/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-the-gop-is-energizing-and-entrenching-antisemitism-in-america/0000017f-ec86-d3be-ad7f-feafc9120000"]Soros, ‘cultural Marxism’ and QAnon: How the GOP is energizing and entrenching antisemitism in America | Opinion | Opinion[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/outside-agitator-label-history-trnd/index.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/articles/blaming-outside-agitators-is-a-centuries-old-ploy-11591560877[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-black-and-anti-semitic-history-of-outside-agitators-an-interview-with-spencer-sunshine/[/URL] [MEDIA=npr]i=873592665;m=873598631[/MEDIA] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/outside-agitators-history-civil-rights.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/myth-outside-agitators-everywhere-ignores-192631978.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIRM53FCCYiVZr5rjJ8m0_zrGpItz2n4_D_f5G_C-V9115hGcukXXckyLYqjSGAUizJepLiBtFzH1k6mCm7PaNq7ZnhmOYEPLeMWe5qsz5Lu0vFmz_tT0-ioCt13ftwY843FAa0mSoNexBWxZ-HufzR-_Y4J5f0EDB0NkTaepD4I[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21275720/george-floyd-protests-outside-agitators-ferguson-civil-rights-movement[/URL] This one is mostly about Brietbart but has a good second section about coded anti-Jewishness [URL unfurl="true"]https://politicalresearch.org/2018/01/12/steve-bannons-washed-out-antisemitism[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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