Originally A Reddit Comment: 1918, the Flu, and a Distraction? Or A Particularly-Insidious Dog Whistle?

Given Trump’s malicious and Anti-Semitic history, Trump’s latest comment is a hardly-veiled way of claiming that the Flu of 1918 (which began in February 1918) contributed to Germany’s losses in World War One and thus...long story short, we’re Trump’s scapegoats once again. Since the Anti Semites blame us for the Austrohungarian and Germany loss of WWI (instead of Germany’s attack on the “Lusitania”, after which Austrohungary and Germany had no more justification for WWI), they blame us for WWII in the first place—notwithstanding that they committed ethnocide against our people (including many Jewish WWI personnel whom were more than willing to support Austrohungary and Germany in sending the message that what Gavrilo Princip did was unacceptable).

Unfortunately, when you’ve run into enough Anti Semitism—including received Anti-Semitic threats—which I have—you can quickly realize what Anti Semites are trying to do.