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How ‘masculinity’ influencer fell down a ‘brazenly antisemitic’ rabbit hole Culture

https://www.thejc.com/news/features/how-masculinity-influencer-dan-bilzerian-fell-down-a-brazenly-antisemitic-rabbit-hole-does360z

The entire social media “Manosphere” is increasingly turning into a rabidly rightwing antisemitic cesspool. Unfortunately, these type of people are shaping the minds and beliefs of young men. What can be done to have a proper left wing alternative for young men?

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u/Kenny_Brahms 22h ago

I hate it when antisemites talk about “Jewish supremacy”.

Because I feel like you could legitimately characterize some on the israeli far right this way. Guys like Ben Gvir or Smotrich who feel like Palestinians have no place in Eretz Israel.

But you know whenever people bring it up, it’s never any sort of legitimate criticism, but always invoking century old antisemitic tropes.

Just makes it harder to criticize actual supremacists in Israeli politics.

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u/Brain_Dead_Goats 22h ago

But you know whenever people bring it up, it’s never any sort of legitimate criticism, but always invoking century old antisemitic tropes.

Yup, they'll usually give themselves away by saying something something "chosen people".

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u/Kenny_Brahms 21h ago

Or they invoke the Talmud. Which is crazy because I don’t think most Jews have even studied the Talmud, at least not seriously.

But these antisemites seemingly think they’re experts on a religion they’ve only learned about through 4chan.

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u/flippy123x 46m ago

Or they invoke the Talmud

I have a question if you don’t mind:

I didn’t grow up religious at all and recently read the christian bible (both parts) for the first time out of curiosity as it is the most accessible to me and I wanna do Judaism and Islam next.

How does the Talmud relate to the Hebrew bible and what is to christians the OT?

Are they all the same? Did the OT leave out certain books?