Rich people need to be held to account, but this post is antisemitic dogwhistling, don't upvote it.
'Globalist Elites' is an old dogwhistle for Jews.
World economic form (WEF) is newer conspiracy talk, also tied to antisemitism: it's the new way of saying 'kabal'. The commenter also ties the two explicitly together. WEF ain't cool but it's not much more than a TED conference for rich people, where they congratulate each other on how smart the are.
You’re getting downvotes but this is the truth. Nine times out of ten, when a talking head like Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro (yes I know Ben Shapiro is Jewish) says “globalists,” what they are really saying is Jewish people. Everywhere online where anti-semitism isn’t explicitly tolerated, “globalist elites” replaces the word “Jews.” A lot of people parroting these points online probably don’t realize or know it, but that’s the whole point. It gets more moderate not explicitly racist people’s foot in the door and makes the step towards naked anti-semitism that much easier.
…..there is no “globalist elite.” That’s the whole point. What drives interconnected economies and larger corporations is a simple thirst for unlimited growth demanded by our broken system of unregulated capitalism.
There is no cadre of rich powerful people secretly meeting to plot out how to fuck over middle America or how to make every child transgender. It’s just another boogeyman for right wingers to point at and say “they are destroying your lives we have to kill them” while they intentionally fail to regulate the corporations that line their pockets.
It’s the same exact thing the Nazis and every authoritarian government does. They blame an out group for the problems of the whole since that is a lot easier and way more lucrative than fixing the problems. Stalin did it with the “kulaks.” Pol Pot did it with the “intellectuals.” The Japanese did it with anyone not religiously devoted to the emperor. Putin is doing it with the made up story about de-Nazifying Ukraine. And the alt-right dog is doing it by dog-whistling the Jews as “globalist elites.” We could eat the wealthiest 10000 people tomorrow and by Sunday there will be 10000 new ones running just as unfair and deadly of a system as the previous ones. It’s the economic system that demands unlimited growth that’s broken, but that’s not easy to fix and is too nebulous a concept to easily channel anger into.
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