re: #109 bratwurst

Thing is, he probably did “just realize it.”

Lots of folks are swimming in a pool of hog-piss information where they’re no necessarily presented with a notion outright, but are prodded toward that concept by precursor notions.

For example, wingnuts are primed for anti-Semitism by their sampling of conspiracy logic that hearkens back to the Elders of Zion, but also by the long arc of supersessionism and the notion the Jews just ain’t quite right, and also by the trend of racializing “Communism” as a kind of twofer damnation-by-association. There’s probably other things that are proc-ing them that I can’t think of right now.

ETA: This is what’s been building for years. Conspiracy logic always uses the same components, and most of those components are harvested from a limited number of ur-conspiracy theories. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is one of those texts that everybody samples, or samples indirectly. With the immense access to information in this age, conspiracy idiots are doing pattern recognition between the current soft-focused and coded conspiracy talk of the wingnuts (that want a veneer of “respectability) and the hard-core racist/anti-semitic materials of the past.