me after taking two pills from a pill bottle labeled “pills that make it so if there’s a cherry pie in a bear trap, you can’t see the bear trap” and seeing a cherry pie right next to me: i mean, what are the odds right?
Anonymous asked: Pardon my ignorance, but what is antisemitic about the alien/lizard people thing? I always thought it was a dumb joke people made, but I didn't realize it has such a hurtful origin!
David Icke and his conspiracy theories about the banks, the media and the government being run by “Zionists” who are actually alien lizard people, which have been repeated as an antisemitic dogwhistle for decades, even though Icke says “Zionists” isn’t meant to indicate Jews necessarily. (Related research topics include the propaganda text “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.)
This is why it’s particularly worrisome to see that type of joke made about politicians, even clearly shitty ones. Like, even jokes about 45 and his wife being lizard-people has roots in that whole thing.
You know what? Do me a favor. If this is new to you, please reblog it. There may be others following you who it’s also news to. Like, reblog it if you knew before sure, but especially if this is your first exposure to the topic.
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
