Conspiracy #1

[history79]

"Is the government monitoring you? Are there secret organizations controlling society? Do creatures not of this world live among us? All of this and more is explored in this new thrilling series that delves into some of the horrifying truths we believe in the back of our minds.
WARNING This series may very well change how you look at life as we know it."

- Zenescope press release

Comments

[captainbellman]

Yeahhh...dunno who missed the memo, but the "Lizard People" conspiracy is pretty much an antisemitic dogwhistle.

[stubbleupdate]

Unless you're David Icke.

But then, David Icke has declared that the Protocols of Zion is evidence not of a Jewish plot, but of a reptilian plot of Illuminati lizards....

And when he was lifted by Immigration in America for his suspected anti-Semitic views.
"Yes." clarified David Icke, "the families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes." He threw up his hands. "And now, suddenly, the idea is that I'm saying it is a gigantic Jewish plot. But let me make myself clear - this does not in any way relate to an earth race."

David Icke's line of defence was clear. When he said lizards, he really was referring to lizards. He was not talking about cockroaches, or amphibians in general, contrary to the suggestions mooted at the meeting in Vancouver, but Annunaki lizards, specifically, from the lower fourth dimension.

The immigration officers glanced at each other, attempting to square this denial with the memo they had received from a coalition of respectable and trustworthy anti-racist groups, accusing David Icke of anti-Semitism. Finally, after four hours of questioning, they concluded that when David Icke said lizards, lizards was what he meant. He was free to enter the country. There was no law against this. How could the lawmakers anticipate that sort of thing?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/17/features.weekend

[shadur]

... So apparently "I'm not racist, I just had a very messy divorce from reality and believe in actual lizard people" is a viable strategy now?

[tcampbell1000]

This is a new one on me and I think would be a new one to many others. The Wikipedia page for "reptilian humanoids" doesn't mention it as an aspect of the conspiracy theory. I don't doubt that anti-Semites kick the theory around between themselves, but I don't feel that horrible people liking a cultural trope is sufficient reason for the rest of us to surrender it. If anything, that seems to accept their views as mainstream instead of pushing them back into the dark corners where they belong.

It's true that some once-innocent tropes become irrevocably tainted by usage (swastikas, Pepe the Frog), but that's not the situation we're dealing with here.

I don't really even like what I've seen of this story much (and I don't expect a lot out of Zenescope), but it's the principle.

[starwolf_oakley]

Wasn't there a novel or movie about dinosaurs disgused as humans?

[donnblake]

Anonymous Rex had dinosaurs taking their extinction and living in disguise as humans.

Yeah, don't think about that too hard.

[shadur]

... Now that sounds like the kind of hilariously weird thing I might actually enjoy reading. *goes look*