For Holocaust Remembrance, My Friend Fell for QAnon and Into Antisemitism
<p>Ifirst learned about QAnon by accident, around the time of the 2020 Superbowl.</p>
<p>Jennifer Lopez and Shakira had put on this awesome halftime show that had me dancing all over my living room. <em>“I haven’t seen a performance like this since the 90s!” </em>I yelled to my boyfriend over the blaring Latin music.</p>
<p>But soon after, I started seeing odd comments pop up on news threads about how disgusting their performances were, how their dancing was Satanic. I even saw people calling them pedophiles.</p>
<p>Then, my former friend — let’s call her Jane (this is not her real name) — shared a similar sentiment on her Facebook page, followed by a cryptic acronym, “WWG1WGA.” Curious, I Googled this acronym and the QAnon conspiracy popped up, with the saying, “Where We Go One, We Go All.”</p>
<p>I later learned this was the saying of Q followers, and I began researching more about these weird conspiracy theories. I found them fantastical and wrote them off as fringe. <em>“If someone wants to believe that, let them believe it,”</em> I thought to myself.</p>
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