Ostersunds....swedes

[Burney]

Just seen on the news that a few synagogues have been attacked over the weekend. Three refugees arrested in connection with one of the attacks. On Friday 200 Arabs marched in Malmo and chanted anti-Semitic stuff. Today the Swedish PM has come out and said he’s worried about anti-semitism among the immigrant population from the Middle East. Who’d have thought it eh?

Jews are the canary in the coalmine, bgm. When they’re scared, you know everyone else is next.

[Peter]

Jews are the canary in the coalmine, bgm. When they’re scared, you know everyone else is next.

Well, they do have some experience in this regard.

[redgunamo]

Well, they do have some experience in this regard.

Yes, far more than anyone tells you apparently.

Gassing with my father-in-law the other day, he made the point that, in "Germany", suspicion of the Jewish is a long-standing social feature, dating back centuries. It seems that whenever the local chief, or prince, Graf, or whatever, needed cash to pay off his bookie or his bar-bill or have a pop at the next Count down the way, the simplest way would be to be to stir up a fear and hatred of the local Semites, burn down their properties and businesses and houses and recover his money that way, as they were invariably the ones holding his debts.

With no little sense of bitterness and resentment, he explained that they were never taught about this in school; the War, for example, is always explained away as a one-off, unprecedented massive hissy fit.

[Peter]

Yes, far more than anyone tells you apparently.

Gassing with my father-in-law the other day, he made the point that, in "Germany", suspicion of the Jewish is a long-standing social feature, dating back centuries. It seems that whenever the local chief, or prince, Graf, or whatever, needed cash to pay off his bookie or his bar-bill or have a pop at the next Count down the way, the simplest way would be to be to stir up a fear and hatred of the local Semites, burn down their properties and businesses and houses and recover his money that way, as they were invariably the ones holding his debts.

With no little sense of bitterness and resentment, he explained that they were never taught about this in school; the War, for example, is always explained away as a one-off, unprecedented massive hissy fit.

Yes, it was part of the whole 'it was all that hitler's fault' which helped to absolve germans from any blame. We needed this in order to heal europe and founde the EU.

[redgunamo]

Yes, it was part of the whole 'it was all that hitler's fault' which helped to absolve germans from any blame. We needed this in order to heal europe and founde the EU.

Right. The most spoiled people on the planet, imo. (And I'm not just saying that because, in a moment of weakness, I granted my wife a sheaf of credit cards in her own name ). Actually, despite appearances, Germans are not actually very good with money; they just have an awful lot of it, coupled with enormous potential for making more. And, as such, we need them.