Just wanted to watch a gun video, guess I have to sit through disgusting antisemitic dog whistles
I guess this is the state of the internet these days. I put on a video from a huge gun YouTuber and apparently have to listen to dog-whistle references about Jews being demonic idol worshippers and jokes invoking the number of Holocaust victims who were murdered and dumped into mass graves.
Everything is jokes, huh?
I just visited my grandmother the other day. She escaped Poland with her cousin as a little girl. Her parents and siblings who stayed behind were stripped naked and machine-gunned into a ravine alongside the other civilians from their town. This isn't ancient history. Survivors are alive and well.
So yeah, it hurts hearing jokes that invoke this stuff and be reminded that people still believe this, who justify or believe in the ideology that wants my family and community exterminated, while I'm just trying to watch a video about a rifle.
Timestamps:
03:40 — “…it’s almost like they used the souls of the 271,000.”
This is said while discussing the remarkable accuracy of an HK rifle—a German rifle. “271,000” is a number circulated in Holocaust-denial/neo-Nazi spaces as supposed evidence from a red cross casualty report against the mainstream six million number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. In that context, hearing a joke about Germans having “used the souls of the 271,000” to harness power is pretty fucking disgusting.
19:35 — “This is a rifle that is prepared for war and prepared to put down the followers of Baal.”
Baal is an ancient Canaanite deity repeatedly condemned in the Hebrew Bible, including in passages involving idolatry and child sacrifice. References to Jews as satanic/demonic, idol worshippers, ritual murderers, and child killers also have a very long history in antisemitism. I didn't know we're back to Medieval times and blood libels.
I just wanted to watch a fucking gun video. It's depressing that this is where parts of the internet are in 2026. Openly confidant to spread this vile crap.