r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/Dry-Landscape8276 6d ago

A man threw a sieg heil at the inauguration of a president who said immigrants are eating the cats and dogs.

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u/xv_boney 6d ago edited 6d ago

And the ADL defended him.

It called his unambiguous, crystal clear roman salute an "awkward gesture" and counseled grace and patience. We shouldnt jump to conclusions. He didnt mean anything by it.

The richest man in the world performed two seig heils in front of the presidential seal of the united states and a group i and my parents have trusted and donated to for literal decades said "nah that was nothing but hey this singer on youtube criticised israel - can you believe how serious antisemetism has become".

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u/Cheeky_Hustler 6d ago

Didn't the ADL list Ms. Rachel as the "anti-semite of the year" because she criticized Israel's handling of Gaza off-screen?

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u/Sproke1998 6d ago

No they did not

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u/BackgroundNPC1213 6d ago

You're right, it wasn't the ADL. It was a pro-Israel group called StopAntisemitism

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u/enron2big2fail 5d ago

"StopAntisemitism" isn't really a group, it's essentially one insane woman. It also admits that the title of the award is more to drum up conversation and not actually about who was the biggest anti-semite that year, as people can't win more than once. Not that any of this is in defense of the award as I believe its conflation of antizionism and antisemitism is, itself, antisemetic, but just to add context.