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So speaking of very real anti-Semitism, our next article is from Truth Out

titled Normalizing Nazi rhetoric won't further the goal of

Palestinian liberation, which feels like something that shouldn't need to be said,

but does.

And this is gonna wrap into a lot of discussions

we have also had before about what we refer to

as the dumb, dumb left. It goes by other names as well, but this article is focused on the term ZOG, which stands for Zionist occupied government

and it talks about how recently leftists on multiple social media platforms

debated whether the acronym ZOG is an accurate or acceptable descriptor for the United States government,

because I suppose the argument would go like, well, the US government's a government.

And people who believe in Zionism are called Zionist.

There's no controversy there.

Many elected officials are Zionist.

And occupied, like, might be a little inflammatory in tone, but ultimately it's accurate enough, so what's the big deal?

But of course, the term Zog was popularized by the Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel by neo-Nazi William Luther Pierce,

which I first heard about, you know, 20-ish years ago

in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing.

That's the most famous Turner Diaries fan

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