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muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
Fri May 28, 2021, 10:29 AM May 2021

QAnon's Antisemitism Is Finally Being Displayed in Full






A Twitter account using the name GhostEzra was set up in December 2020, and within weeks gained over 18,000 followers. The account was a prolific poster and in the early hours of Jan. 6 alone, they posted a stream of over 80 tweets and retweets, according to an archived version of the account. The posts contained memes, videos, and messages claiming that Trump was about to return to office.
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In the space of a few weeks, it racked up over 330,000 followers. The account has become so popular that a lawyer for Ezra Cohen, a former Trump official who many believed was Q, felt the need to clarify on Twitter that his client was not running the account.










It began by promoting the neo-Nazi film “Europa – the Last Battle” a 10-part film that claims Jews created Communism, and deliberately started both world wars as part of a plot to found Israel by provoking the innocent Nazis, who were only defending themselves.




But for the rank-and-file QAnon follower, the complaints about GhostEzra seem to have fallen on deaf ears, with hundreds of thousands interacting with his posts every day. Even Lin Wood, arguably the most influential voice in the QAnon world today, has signaled his endorsement of the GhostEzra channel, telling his 830,000 Telegram followers that he “enjoys” the channel’s content.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv7eq/qanons-anti-semitism-is-finally-being-displayed-in-full

Vice point out that the Qanon 'establishment', who are now complaining this makes them look bad, have said plenty of antisemitic stuff themselves, just not quite as in your face. And they're not debunking the Holocaust denial or Jewish-conspiracy theories, just saying they don't want it being the face of Qanon.

In some ways, the flat earth stuff is good to see there - that will put off some people who may be racist, or have racist tendencies, but know it's idiotic nonsense. But it could be a test - "if I can get away with this crap, I know a lot of them will swallow anything I give them - now for the Nazi stuff ...". And I suspect the average Telegram user or Qanon follower/curious are not the kind of people you can persuade by saying "go back to what they said about earth a couple of weeks ago - this is clearly complete bullshit"; they live in the moment for whatever makes them feel Heroic and Better than Those Other People.
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QAnon's Antisemitism Is Finally Being Displayed in Full (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2021 OP
These imbeciles have alienated pretty much everyone by now. Who's left to support this crap? sop May 2021 #1
And Donny couldn't understand why most American Jews didn't support him. tanyev May 2021 #2
It was only a matter of time. Behind the Aegis May 2021 #3
I know a qanutter that posted all kinds of anti-semitic crap in relation to the pandemic tenderfoot May 2021 #4
K&R Solly Mack May 2021 #5
I need a shower Hekate May 2021 #6

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
3. It was only a matter of time.
Fri May 28, 2021, 01:49 PM
May 2021

These people are simple-minded cultish assholes, so things like this will easily bend them. What disgusts me as well is the fact that some of this shit is seeping into our side!

tenderfoot

(8,436 posts)
4. I know a qanutter that posted all kinds of anti-semitic crap in relation to the pandemic
Fri May 28, 2021, 02:23 PM
May 2021

Posts asserting that "Jewish Bankers" were behind the vaccine!!!!!

I reported all the posts and they've since been removed.

As for this person.... wow! What a lunatic!

Hekate

(90,704 posts)
6. I need a shower
Fri May 28, 2021, 03:28 PM
May 2021



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