Comment by exe34

Comment by exe34 2 days ago

5 replies

> Don't they see that booby trapping large number of devices rhymes with poisoning the well? It wouldn't help with antisemitism but that's another discussion.

could you expand on what you mean here? I don't understand either the argument or the conclusion. thanks!

mrtksn 2 days ago

Well poisoning is an antisemitic talking point, its used as an excuse to target Jewish people by claiming that Jews are secretly poisoning the well from who their people during water.

  • xenospn 2 days ago

    I’ve never heard that phrase before. Did you come up with it?

    • mrtksn 2 days ago

      Obviously, otherwise you would have heard of it.

    • meepmorp 2 days ago

      Jews poisoning wells was a common antisemitic accusation for centuries (and still - Mahmoud Abbas made a very similar, unsubstantiated claim in 2016) Also, accusations of murdering Christian babies to make matzo, generally worshiping the devil and desecrating communion hosts, etc.

      • exe34 a day ago

        what I didn't get was how the poster above was trying to make it sound like a bad thing ("don't they see") - making the enemy of Western values swear off Western infidel technology a perfect well to poison in my opinion.