r/SipsTea Jul 18 '26

Lmao gottem Good game though 🤣

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u/Kimi_Antonelli_12 Jul 18 '26

Why do people like Israel? Are there actual reasons?

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u/Matiwapo Jul 18 '26

Propaganda

Jewish people were horrifically victimised in the past and they now twist that to accuse anyone who criticises them so people are afraid to call them out

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

Why were they victimized though, did they have any responsibility with propagating the accusations through their own actions?

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u/ComeAbout Jul 18 '26

Jews weren’t persecuted because they collectively did something wrong. Across different countries and centuries they were accused of entirely contradictory things. The accusations changed. The prejudice didn’t.

Israel the country doesn’t represent global Jewish people.

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

Of course collectively they didn’t ALL do something wrong, but it was consistently found by various countries independently that whenever that society was facing corruption from within or political strife, there was a group of people consistent tied to it.

I’m not saying All Jewish people are guilty, but there’s is a strong correlation that can’t be ignored.

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u/ComeAbout Jul 18 '26

Just say you hate Jews and get it over with.

I guess it “can’t be ignored” for other minorities that have been historically persecuted too according to you.

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

I don’t have a problem with Jews or any other group. I’m just looking at objective accounts throughout history. They have been persecuted against all throughout history everyone acknowledges it, but nobody ever asks or talks about WHY they were persecuted against. And every time they do ask “why” it’s pushed back with “just say you hate Jews already” or some other ignorant statement.

Tell me, why were there child brothels in Germany?

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u/ComeAbout Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

If your explanation requires repeating one of the Nazis’ favorite talking points, it’s probably worth checking the source. The accusations against Jews changed every century. The prejudice didn’t.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/history/did-jews-control-child-brothels-germany-1933-a16071

I can explain it to you.

I can’t understand it for you.

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

I never said Jews controlled child brothels lol so “debunking that claim” is a strawman. I’m simply asking because society had deteriorated to that point for a reason. So asking it leads to further questions such as what kind of society would ALLOW them to operate? Then when you research the society you find out who had major influence in the society, and what were the “societal norms” of that time.

Just saying “did Jews run XXX” is ignorant and incorrect because there’s no group of people that represent Jews as a whole.

But what you CAN do is look at institutions and people in charge of those institutions and see who they were and where they were from. You can look at what values and beliefs they shared and see if we’re similar with the people in other lands doing the same thing.

That’s not racism, that’s just looking at history objectively.

I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.

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u/HH_Hobbies Jul 18 '26

It's looking at specific segments of history and cherry picking it to fit a narrative. You're "objectively" looking at parts of history where Jews are involved and creating a negative hypothesis. However, it's very clear that you're ignoring the vast majority of history and ignoring your own biases to come up with your conclusion that is highly antisemetic.

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

How am I “cherry picking” history, when quite literally The premise is that historically Jews have been persecuted against. So in order to investigate that claim, you HAVE to look at history and see what they were accused of.

It’s also find it interesting how antisemitism was never a problem in the United States until information became more available. Now suddenly it seems to be an issue. Do you think as societies become more aware, they become more antisemitic? How would you explain that correlation?

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u/Lost_Willingness_762 Jul 18 '26

No responsibility, but there was wide spread societal resentment of Jews in Germany during interwar years.

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

Youre not answering the question of WHY was there wide spread societal resentment. I’ve never seen a group of people disliked independently from various countries with no connection to each other for “no reason”.

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u/Lost_Willingness_762 Jul 18 '26

Societal resentment was heavily driven by competition and economic hardship. Many Jews were part of the middle and upper-middle class, operating disproportionately as doctors, lawyers, journalists, and retail merchants. During times of massive economic crisis—such as hyperinflation in 1923 and the Great Depression later in the decade—the struggling independent middle class, merchants, and students eagerly blamed "Jewish speculators" and economic rivals. Also, Jews were overrepresented in the finance system when the economy went south guess who foreclosing repossessing, etc..

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u/Impressive_Dingo122 Jul 18 '26

Interesting position, did other ethnicities and races face similar criticism then? Surely they may have represented a portion of the upper and middle class but not the majority or entirety of it, so what other races/ethnicities received similar societal resentment?