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Before Hitler, who was the go-to comparison for slandering your opponent? (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading a reddit-logo thread on /r/AskHistorians years ago asking this question, and one of the higher up answers was "Judas", at least in European contexts.

Anyway, antisemitism cropped up out of nowhere in the 1980s with the authoring of the Hamas charter and ... /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Napoleon was also pretty popular apparently, same or similar thread