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Is there any evidence that there was some sort of orchestrated effort to have a sudden change in rhetoric?

Or are these graphs just reflecting the rise of the social justice movement, which the news would obviously report on?

Basically this doesn't really tell us anything about cause and effect.

How about Obama effectively repealing Smith–Mundt Act, that was previously preventing domestic dissemination of state-made propaganda?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act

This was interesting until it blamed Jewish people.

If you don't like class systems, blame those who perpetuate them. The extremely wealthy, the royalists and the supporters of caste type systems. Otherwise you're just being antisemitic when you could be making an interesting point.

Note the graph in the bottom-right corner of [0] blaming it on Jewish billionaires.

Agree but for purposes of this specific article, the Economist is a British publication. The largest owner is a Dutch holding company.

Your first link contains an anti-semitic dogwhistle. Is this intentional?

I didn't make that infographic and I don't have another one without the bottom right part, but it would be weird to invalidate the whole point because whoever made it has said the taboo word.

I also think that it's extremely stupid to blame "all Jews" for anything. But it's equally stupid to call "all white people" privileged, especially if we need to use 2 different definitions of "white" when arriving at the privileged conclusion vs. applying the penalty for it. Both approaches are stupid, divisive and inconstructive, and the more someone pushes in one direction, the more pushback it creates. Focusing on class, or especially "self-made wealth vs. inherited wealth" could do wonders in terms of actually uniting people.

Let's face it. There's a reason why there's only one version of this information that suits your point.

That’s not a dog-whistle - it’s straight up antisemitism.

In the racial representation of billionaires? What exactly is the dog whistle?

I think the part where they literally wrote out in plain text that wealth disparity is the fault of the Jewish people

It's barely a dog whistle, but the obvious insinuation that sinister Jews are behind all the world's ills.

The caption on that same graph - "we also know who did this and why".

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