“You Muslims must die!”
Wadea Al-Fayoume a 6 year old Palestinian American boy was just stabbed to death in Illinois by his landlord shouting these words. His mom Hanaan was stabbed as well and in critical condition.
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You're right that everyone is a product of their environment, and there is a world where people like this aren't so heavily propagandized that they resort to murder and genocidal thinking.
I can also see how that statement could appear anti-Semitic, but it's not. Because this guy is in the same camp as school shooters and American "great replacement" nazis. They have totally bought into the lies and perpetuate violence in service of the fucked up systems they buy into.
I say this not as a challenge but, I suppose, a failure of my reading comprehension. Which statement could be read as antisemitic?
Just the phrase "people like this". We know here that I'm talking about reactionaries and zealots, but out of context it could be read as (((people like this)))
I was talking about my own post of that wasn't clear