Re:Trump Derangement Syndrome
by red020 on Monday March 17, 2025 @10:23AM
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TDS is like calling Westerners antisemitic. It flips cause and effect. It frames criticism as irrational hatred so that the accusers can see themselves as victims. It dismisses problems with jews and israel as blind hatred and directly ignores any harms caused by them.
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That's mostly correct.
Timothy Snyder wrote about this idea directly: https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-and-antisemitism
The flipping of cause and effect language is also directly out of one of his lessons.