This is what makes the NOI type of anti-Semitism so specifically pernicious -- because it's telling an audience of mostly black people that historical black subjugation (real) was not the fault of black people (true) but is the fault of Jewish people (not true)
And here's where the two thoughts (NOI-style anti-Semitism and the sociology of secret societies paper I linked earlier) come together: NOI style anti-Semitism isn't based on facts. It's based on a sense of grievance, that gets reinforced by a shared conspiracy community.
Like, when Kyrie keeps going on about "I know where I come from," that's not just citing an insane documentary, that's citing a NOI/BHI world view that makes him, and the people who believe it, feel important, offers both identity and a shared target
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This is a hard point to parse, but for some black people the story of black American history is a story of failure and loss and tragedy, and to have another story, one where actually you are mighty and special, but then you were robbed of your special powers, is very effective.
I mean, the ideology of Nation of Islam is that black people lived in a perfect paradise, and that the first god literally chose to arrive on earth as a black man, and then a (stay with me) child prodigy evil scientist called Yacub created white people, who overran the earth
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