• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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    12 days ago

    None of the killed cyclists were Jews? Is this some twisted antisemitism?

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      12 days ago

      The motorists killing cyclists are so antisemitic they don’t want Jews touching their cars.

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      Yeah, and the clear implication that they would have to have is that they were killed because they were cyclists?? Otherwise, I’m positive hundreds if not thousands (idk the demographics) of Jews were killed by accident, killed in hospitals, killed for other identities, over gambling debts etc.

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    10 days ago

    Sure, more cyclists were killed, but the real question is who is more smug? /s

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      12 days ago

      About the Jews? Yeah 100%. How many hate crimes are done on Muslims, and how many dollars are sent to Israel to murder Muslims?

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        12 days ago

        No the cycling thing, get off your high horse. Comparing your choice of transportation to experiencing antisemitism? Get over yourself

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              Delusional is talking about something that’s manufactured propaganda in order to get you on board with Israel, despite it doing genocide in the middle east.

              Better to pay attention to a real issue, cyclists dying in our streets.

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                11 days ago

                Lemmy is such a shitty place sometimes. Being against antisemitism and being against Israels crimes are not mutually exclusive. They have, in fact, nothing to do with one another.

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                  Sure. But if you read the original post, it’s about someone saying that jews are not safe in Canada. And this is then contrasted with how bicyclists are being killed in Canada but jews are not being killed. Directly contradicting the presented narrative.

                  So then you might wonder: why did someone feel that Canada was unsafe? And you’ll find that the answer was “because they heard a few people criticize Israel.”

                  In my own experience, the people saying “jews aren’t safe” or “this is antisemitism” often aren’t jewish or representing any jewish people; they’re just pro-evil.

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          Transportation is rarely a choice. At least, not one made by the user. Being a cyclist is more political than being jewish.

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    There’s a super old joke (I first read it in a Leo Rosten book), that an antisemite claimed that the Jews had caused the war; the reply was: Yes, the Jews and the bicyclists. Why the bicyclists? Asks the antisemite. Why the Jews? asks the other.

    Maybe this is referring to that?