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In my quest of watching old shows before my time, I started Northern Exposure.

It's not good, don't watch it. But... it did reveal to me how frequently Jews would "dog whistle" to other Jews their hatred of Whites.

The main character is a doctor, and so obviously is a Jew from NYC (this is pretty much the foundation of the plot). In one episode, the whole town comes down with the flu, and all the stupid hick White people want to know where it came from, and why the doctor wont cure them.

There's a lot that can be talked about in this episode (such as the cure to the flu being an Indian remedy of literally rubbing shit all over you), but they city calls a town hall meeting to find a solution... to the flu...

In it, the doctor says the flu could have come from anywhere, even Russia, which causes everyone there to start speculating that it's a "communist plot", and then blame the doctor.

They effectively accuse him of being a Russian agent. And at one point, someone literally says "your family were probably Trotskyites, and they marched in solidarity for the Rosenburgs!"

Now in the 90's, do you think most of the Non-Jewish viewers would know what a Trotskyite is, or who the Rosenburgs were (if at my anything more than being spies)? Do you think they would have connected it to "anti-Jewish" sentiments or just go "oh, vaguely Russian stuff, they are saying he's a Russian or something". Meanwhile, the average Jewish viewer would have probably picked up on this right away as being some sort of anti-Jewish insult.

It makes me wonder who much of this stuff was in older media. I know I've seen plenty of Jews shoehorning their ways into stories before, that's nothing new. But I've never seen a show intentionally try to stoke jew-vs-world hatred before in what was probably a very subtle way at the time.

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