This is the first I’ve heard of it, but here’s one of his infamous quotes:

"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.

I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

His other quotes tend to be condemnation about specifically Israeli zionism and barbaric murder, but i don’t have context as to whether he’s referring to palestine or not. Some people might have more sympathy for these statements these days, but a lot of his other quotes have to do with Jews controlling money and media, less defensible prejudice.

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And I disagree that these are the only two options you can observe in society. You can very much observe anti-semitism that has nothing to do with perceived ethnicity. Especially because - as much as racists don’t like to admit that - the ethnicity of jewish people is very diverse.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can you elaborate?

      Racism isn’t about perceived ethnicity specifically, it’s about prejudice toward an ethnic group regardless of whether you can perceive the ethnicity accurately.

      When someone racist toward Arabs discovers that someone they didn’t think was Arab is Arab, then demonstrates prejudice, obviously the perceived ethnicity doesn’t matter as much as the prejudice of the idea of being an error.

      I don’t see the disconnect between anti-Semitism and perceived ethnicity, or how such a theoretical disconnect removes racism from anti-Semitism.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Honestly, I don’t think our viewpoints differ enough to waste our time on a discussion. The usefulness of debating nuances is a bit too academic in nature and better done over a beer or so. I like to make a distinction between anti-<insert religious group here> and racism in order to deface the blatant racism disguised as anti-<whatever religion>-ism.

        E.g. 95% of the European citizens claiming they’re “not racist, but” (we call them but-Nazis) they have an issue with islamic traditions, are just stupid racists against brown people but don’t have the spine to admit that.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I can’t imagine how anti-(fill in the ethnicity) cannot be perceived as racism, so I assumed our perspectives on racism were diametrically opposed.

          Thank you for “but-Nazis”, haha, I haven’t heard that term before and I’m definitely going to be propagating it in the wild.

          • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I can’t imagine how anti-(fill in the ethnicity) cannot be perceived as racism

            Notice I wrote anti-<whatever religion>, and religion is not an ethnicity per se.

            Enjoy the “Aber-Nazis” (I’m German, we have too many of those (again?), unfortunately)

            • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Your desire to protect antisemites is certainly an interesting choice of things to devote energy to but I don’t think they’ll care about your careful semantics when they’re choosing who to hate - you really think they only hate practicing jews? They hate anyone with Jewish ancestry, Roald was talking about a born predisposition not about some aspect of the Jewish religion.

              In don’t know if you’re bending over backwards because to protect a childhood icon of yours or because you’ve got so wrapped up in the Palestine situation you’ve been befriending antisemites and telling yourself it’s OK but you really are making shitty arguments that have been made by a million racists already