• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    When you start digging into who is behind the conspiracy, you tend to hit “the Jews” (or a corresponding dogwhistle) pretty reliably, which leads to concerns less about illegal immigrants, and more about brown people.

    I had a friend who went from moon landing conspiracism to flat earth, sovcit, Nazi over the course of a couple of years. I called the coming Nazism well over a year ahead of time, and people thought I was nuts. When most conspiracies blame the Jews, I can’t understand why people get surprised by it.

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      10 months ago

      That’s a bit of ‘surprised Pikachu’ energy, like what else would you expect if most conspiracies are “[some group based on an arbitrary trait] is in control and hides it”

      The exceptions are probably just trollz that went out of control and found real followers, like flat earth