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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

@self

This is one of those David Icke things where you’re not sure if reptilians/fairies/aliens mean reptilians/fairies/aliens or if they're some kind of code or euphemism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

If you always bet on "everything confusing that weirdos say is a euphemism or proxy for Jews or Black people", you will beat the house. Canadians, lizards, trans people, common punctuation marks, apparently also the seelie court I guess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

having unfortunately known several David Icke fans: it’s always veiled antisemitism, and the veil gradually disappears the more you let them talk

e: yes, the area I live in is teeming with various flavors of conspiracy nut, why do you ask

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember his original car crash on Wogan after he went loopy and it was barely veiled antisemitism even then - lizard people and the like

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"ah ah but he wrote books - that surely can't be the works of a person frothing in racism!" is something I've heard from a surprising number of people I've met

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

if racism made people illiterate every facebook group and every youtube comment section would look completely different

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

the answer is "both"