While baking I was listening to Behind the Bastards on "the other Hitler", Julius Streicher, & I still can't get over the fact that in 1922 claiming children had been kidnapped for blood rituals by Jewish citizens led to an actual sentence of jail time (reduced on appeal to a fine, but still).
It's a striking reminder that we never *needed* brutality on a mass scale to know that defaming people was wrong.
And also, that the lesson is never fully learned.
A century later, how much has changed?
A common theme in my writings on human behaviouralism and deep history. :) Your "TED talk" is welcome here.
@MLClark It's called 'Blood Libel' which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian boys in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals.
Oh, I know what blood libel is. That's not the part that surprised me. The part that surprised me was jail time in 1922 Weimar Republic for perpetuating it from a news platform.
@MLClark human psychology has not evolved and 21st Century humans are fundamentalists to Bronze Age theology. There’s more, but that’s enough for my TED talk teaser.