Flat-earthers, Nazis, and jews

[yankeedoodle]

You've got this guy, Mike Dees, selling flat-earth bullshit at this flat earth conference that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says is "anti-semitic," and, the SPLC was run by a jew pervert named Morris Dees  https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dees+jewish+name&atb=v116-4_f&ia=web .  Obviously, this flat-earth bullshit is a deep jew plot to make all the goy so fucking stupid that they will just walk off the end of the earth - or, a cliff somewhere - and leave it to the jews.   

I ask a number of Flat Earthers about their politics. Many are politically disengaged ("your vote doesn't count," three people tell me), but loosely conservative. Most are Christian. Some, if you inquire long enough, say they'll have to completely rebuild society after everyone realizes the world is flat.

This crowd isn't necessarily far right. But the openness to extremes and a tendency toward conservative Christianity means far-right language leaks into conversation throughout the conference.

The Globebusters, a Flat Earth YouTube crew, give a presentation linking NASA to the Nazis. The initials of a NASA space-training program spell out the name of a son of Zeus, the Greek god who threw lightning bolts, which clearly are similar to the lightning bolt insignias worn on SS uniforms.

A hundred feet from the mainstage where Globebusters are imagining Nazi symbols, a man named Mike Dees is selling Flat Earth books and apparel. He's wearing a pewter necklace with a crooked-spoked wheel: a Sonnenrad. The ancient symbol was appropriated by the Nazis and features heavily in neo-Nazi culture today.

"It's an ancient symbol of the stars. The 24 positions of the Big Dipper," he says of the symbol. He knows about its other meaning as "the more popularized, misinterpreted trigger symbol" but still wears it because he sees it as "an ancient, cosmic symbol of peace."

Two tables over, vendors are selling a weighty book on Flat Earth. "Zionist Jews control the educational system," begins Chapter 33 ("Mind Control"). The second paragraph is a block-quote from the wildly anti-Semitic and fabricated conspiracy text Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which the Flat Earth author concludes is proof that Jews are trying to hide the Flat Earth, in order to undermine God and control the world.

At the table between Dees' Sonnenrad and the book on Jewish mind control, Andrea Berglund is selling Flat Earth maps. "The CIA, the FBI," she tells me when I ask who's behind a series of alleged cover-ups. "The Jews are involved too."

Presenter Robert Sungenis, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has accused of anti-Semitism, prefaces a Hebrew word with "as Jews say" and makes a exaggerated, phlegmy-sounding gutternal noise.

Religious conspiracy (some people I speak to at the conference accuse the Freemasons, not the Jews of covering up Flat Earth) and political uncertainty go hand in hand. Embittered by Germany's loss in World War I, fascists falsely accused the country's Jews of "stabbing Germany in the back" during the war. The conspiracy theory contributed to the Holocaust under Nazi rule. The ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, during a period of political strife has been fueled by a dramatic increase in anti-Rohingya hate speech and conspiracy on Facebook. In a period of political unrest in America, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and subsequent murders of Jews are on the rise.

Inside the Flat Earth Conference, Where the World's Oldest Conspiracy Theory Is Hot Again
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-flat-earth-conference-where-the-worlds-oldest-conspiracy-theory-is-hot-again 

[maz]

I'm not sure why the SPLC didn't come out and claim that the flat earthers are an anti-semitic movement, because some of them really are, or claim to be counter-semitic.

I don't remember who the "anti-Semitic" flat earthers are, before I got locked out of Twitter, that rapper Payday Monsanto and some of the writers at Renegade Tribune were promoting flat earth. There were some others though I just can't remember their names.

Some of them were probably not doing it on purpose, but some of the ones who were the big flat earth promoters I believe were just repeating talking points about Jews and Israel while talking about flat earth in order to make us all look crazy.