The current wave of anti semitic violence and vandalism has caught me off guard a bit. Most attribute this to far right wing groups feeling empowered by Donald Trump.
The thought crossed my mind this morning that some of this could be attributed to left wing groups trying to sabotage the right. I am in no way conviced that this is happening but I am begaining to suspect it. How far out would this be? Just based on how this is affecting people it could be an effective anti right strategy if the radicals felt desperate enough.
Don’t believe in false flag conspiracy theories without considerable evidence, of which there is currently none.
3% of Louisianan voters voted for David Duke just a few months ago. That’s over 50,000 people, in one smallish state. Even if Louisiana has, say, twice as many white supremacist/neo-Nazi supporters, relatively speaking, as the rest of the country, that could extrapolate to literally millions of Americans who support white supremacism and neo-Naziism. Would it really be that surprising if multiple anti-Semitic incidents came from these millions of hateful Americans feeling that their beliefs are, to some degree, more empowered and validated as of late?
Yes, though not the wave of vandalism and Jewish-cemetery gravestone-topplings, which would require several people in several states, plus equipment (sledgehammers or more).
Why? According to prominent white supremacists and neo-Nazis, like David Duke and Richard Spencer, they feel as though the election of Trump is a validation of their views. Wouldn’t it be perfectly expected that extremists who feel more validated by events might perform more actions in line with their ideology?
To this I would say you have fallen victim to Gaslighting by the Trumpists. Not that you doubt your own sanity, but that you have had sufficient doubt sown that you don’t trust your perception of what is going on in the world.
It shouldn’t be surprising if anti-Semitic incidents perk up after the election to President of someone whom prominent anti-Semites were vocally praising and encouraging (whether or not that praise and encouragement was based on the candidate’s actual rhetoric) during the campaign.
I could not imagine this ever happening. I can’t understand how anybody could imagine that this could happen by anybody other than the anti-semites involved.
(i.e., white-supremacist anti-Semites are a sufficient explanation without synthesizing a left-wing false-flag conspiracy from an absolute absence of evidence.)
You’re probably not the only one. That part of American history isn’t over, unfortunately. Sundown towns still exist – Vidor, Texas is one of the more prominent examples, but there are probably more such small towns that manage to keep their whites-only informal practices quiet and under the radar scattered throughout the country.
I speak about David Duke and Louisiana, and LA/TX border places like Vidor, because that’s where I grew up. Racism and bigotry are far from over in being significant influences in culture, society, and politics, even if that influence is less than before.
Potentially worse, or at least more insidious, would be a statistically almost insignificant number of crypto-anti-Semites in large cities. They’d be sprinkled in among normal, not entirely shit-headed folks but find each other through social media. Some clever Dan decides it’d be a good time for some ol’ fashion low-grade pogrom and sets it up through either social media (if they’re as stupid as I’d expect) or chat-type platforms. After the first, the rest of the shit-flinging moneys go into full-on “monkey see, monkey do” copy-monkey mode.
No elaborate conspiracy needed. I suspect it’s all there in plain sight, if you care to look deeply enough.
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Since the start of 2017, dozens of bomb threats have been made against Jewish community centers; this is at least the fifth wave of threats in the past two months.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has an article detailing an uptick in hate and hate groups in the past year. The article is not so subtle in attributing the rise of right-wing hate and the rise of Trump is not mere coincidence.
But it shouldn’t, right? Wouldn’t it make sense that if millions of antisemites suddenly feel more empowered and validated that a few more of them might do things like make bomb threats?
The thought crossed my mind just now that some of this could be attributed to zombie Nazis who have risen from their own cemeteries to attack the cemeteries of the Jews. I am in no way conviced that this is happening but I am begaining to suspect it. How far out would this be?
It would be just about as far out as a false flag operation, given that the amount of evidence for either possibility is zero at the moment. Until there is any evidence that these attacks are being set up by the left, I have no problem at all believing that they are being committed by anti-semitic idiots, possibly ones who have been emboldened by Trump’s election.