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To flat earthers that two-dimensional expression of the planet is further proof and the UN is having a laugh. In their weird heliocentric world, Antarctica surrounds the flat Earth to the east, north, south and west and according to some including the addled-brained Floryd, Australia becomes a geographical inconvenience best explained by flinging its existence in the bin.
The real problem is that once flat earthers are backed into a logical corner, they start referring to the Elders of the Protocols of Zion, a crude textual fabrication designed to promote anti-Semitism and blame all the world’s ills at the feet of Jewish people.
Just whether flat earthers were a bunch of harmless idiots who lapsed into anti-Semitism or if anti-Semitism is at its core, is a chicken and egg paradox. But the simple fact is if you believe the Earth really is flat then you will pretty much believe anything, including that the world is run by a cabal of Jewish bankers.
And that’s where the harm lies. When flat earthers get together and feast on a range of complicated and irrational conspiracies, anti-Semitism is presented to them and not one of their number will raise an eyebrow.
But what do I know? I don’t exist. More to the point, neither do you.
Read the full article by Jack The Insider in The Australian.