You may have noticed that “Jewish Space Laser” was trending on Twitter.
You may have noticed that “Jewish Space Laser” has been trending on Twitter. After all, it’s not every day that you see a racial term and “space laser” used together. Indeed, how often do you hear things like a Black space ship, a Latino light saber, or a Chinese virus? Correction. How often do you hear the first two things at least? The trending of “Jewish Space Laser” apparently was ignited by social media post from first-term Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia). The Facebook post was actually from 2018 but actually re-emerged sort of like something floating back to the water surface in a toilet. In her post, Taylor Greene suggested that the 2018 California wildfires were due not to climate change leaving vegetation more combustible but instead potentially to some kind of “space laser.” Umm, space laser? As they said in the movie Wayne’s World, exsqueeze me, baking powder? Yes, space laser. As the following tweet with Taylor Greene’s original post showed, this lasers supposedly concentrated the sun’s energy and created a solar beam that then set parts of California ablaze: Naturally, right? While real scientists have long said that climate change has left many regions drier than before, why should anyone listen to science? Why not blame it on freaking laser beams? So does this mean that you should never ever go outside, because you never know when space lasers may wipe you out of existence or at least give you a sunburn that would require at least SPF-40,000 to prevent? It would kind of stink to have to worry about the possibility of a secret space laser zapping you every single day. Imagine having to say, “I’ll pick you up at 6pm, unless of course a space laser makes me into crème brûlée before then.” This would also mean that you would have to minimize time spent outside. For example, if you had to venture outside to do something like pick up a toilet paper delivery from your doorstep, you may feel compelled to duck and roll while trembling and muttering, “must avoid the space laser, must avoid the space laser,” over and over again. Indeed, the California wildfires resulted in extensive damage, air pollution, and fatalities. But a space laser that could arbitrarily set things on fire could do even greater damage. Perhaps, Taylor Greene is being incredibly brave every time she spends time outside without a force field around her. So why does the trending phrase have the word “Jewish” in front of it? Well, Greene’s post suggested that the Rothschild banking firm is behind a supposed corporate cabal that engineered this whole space laser plot.
