Joe Rogan likes to troll flat-Earthers. For years, he's confronted them on Twitter and on his podcast. Last week, he brought on regular podcast guest Eddie Bravo, a martial artist and flat Earth conspiracy theorist, so they could yell at each other about the evidence for and against this bafflingly popular idea. A throwaway comment from Bravo, however, hints at a darker truth about this conspiracy theory and many others: the anti-Semitic idea that there's a worldwide Jewish ”globalist" conspiracy functioning just below the surface of world politics, finance, and mainstream media.
”It's a global thing. European Space Agency's lying, they're all in on it," says Bravo in the podcast. ”It's a global thing. I think all governments — most of ‘em, the globalists — they're all working together to control their people."
The casual observer may think the word ”globalists" is simply shorthand for people who believe the Earth is a globe rather than a disc, but it actually has a long, racially charged history. In modern use, it's used as a dog-whistle term for Jewish people — that is, a term that sounds innocuous but actually has a very specific meaning for those in the know, much like a high-pitched dog whistle can only be heard by its intended listeners.
