Oh, it matters. You think most people are going to look on Google Maps themselves?

Quick, gut-punching visuals and stupid soundbites are the name of the game in public opinion. Even if news agencies were to show this map, it’s way more abstract and remote. The impact wouldn’t be the same as a starving, swollen baby.

I actually wonder why they haven’t blocked telecom coming in and out. Everyone would still kinda know they’re doing a genocide, but it would be harder to visually cover, and they might be able to hide details.

Nah, people did move around a bit. Herodotus discusses the “Aetheops” (subsaharan Africans) in his Histories, for example. Rome straight up had emperors who we wouldn’t consider white.

The real catalyst seems to have been the situation in the New World, where coincidentally black slaves were suddenly cheap and abundant, and the colonisers where much lighter than the natives. It was a convenient worldview, basically.

The Christian American far right.

Homophobia isn’t universal, but it’s not an uncommon cultural feature either.

Racism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western. In ancient times they hated over different things. Religion was obviously big in the medieval period, food preferences come up surprisingly often if you go all the way back to clay tablet times.

At this point, it seems far more likely they’ll succeed in their genocide. They don’t really have motive to agree to a two-state solution, even.

I mean, there’s atheist Sephardis too, and we’d still call them Jewish. Conflating Israel or Zionism and Jewishness is bad, but Jews come in multiple types, even if Ashkenazis are the ones that started the Zionist project in earnest.

A good 20-25% of modern Jewish Israelis have a Sephardic background or similar, it looks like. It’s not “white people are uniquely racist”, either.

I never said it was a contest. I made an observation about why Ashkenazi Jews had a hard time historically, and then agreed that you’re probably right about the Sephardis, although I know less detail there.

The Romani continue to be persecuted in Europe to this day, but I don’t believe there’s a racist, settler colonial movement to carve out an ‘ancestral Romani homeland’ in South Asia and drive out the indigenous inhabitants, based on non-exclusive ties to the land.

So Jews are uniquely racist? You see how that’s ironic, right?

The difference is the particulars of history, don’t try to make it about more than that or you’re just another part of the problem.

History is just full of it, though, and somebody starts the ball rolling over and over again. Propaganda is a big part of it, but if you look in really close detail it’s pretty much the same people who make it and who consume it.

I should say, “given the choice between jumping on the genocide bandwagon, and a loss of land, power and acceptance of peers”.

A nation of genocide survivors starting a genocide is pretty much proof anyone could do it.

Uh, looks like it’s estimated at about 10%.

Which is honestly lower than I even would have expected. Because, yeah, just in case.

Yes, it is. Jews have been hated and attacked. Like any number of minorities in any number of places around the world.

The reason it’s made out to be some kind of natural constant unique to us is because that releases us from any responsibility to consider our own actions. People are always looking for a way off the hook.

In Israel, Jews are much stronger and not too much less numerous. The historical situation is inverted.

Yeah, imma go ahead and say “let’s be the only significant minority in medieval Europe” was never going to end well.

Meanwhile, there was no dietary or quasi-polytheism conflict with Muslims. By all accounts relations were usually better, although I’d assume not perfect, and they would have had to pay the extra tax.

You don’t even need to say European, really. Japan still isn’t sorry. We do a lot of this as a species.

Do you think Europe would take them in? They’re not too fond of migrants who haven’t even done anything, these days.

I’m honestly worried about the backlash personally, even though I support Palestine and have never been to the Middle East.

Nice job, Zionists. You’ve breathed new life into antisemitism.

Most people are, given the chance.

China has corruption for sure. That in no way means only the most corrupt people get jailed for corruption. Misusing power is the nature of it.

I think, most likely, everyone in the picture has done a bit of corruption, including Xi, because that’s just life there. If not, jailing people for things they didn’t do in a show trial has a time-honoured history.

India is nowhere near the Atlantic, though. You might be thinking of monsoons changing due to separate effects.

Isn’t Europe specifically supposed to get really cold?

Interesting. I’ve had hard water, I’ve had soft water. It has tastes, but none I really feel like I need. And I’ve experienced really strongly flavoured drinking water, which I don’t recommend.

But, then again, I’m not a water sommelier, haha.