Lunacy: Then (ca. 1360 AD) and now

[Big Papa Goat]

I'm confused about what you say about Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism and so forth. Anti-Semitism is generally considered to be a racist attitude towards Semitic culture, not towards Jewish religion as such, they call that Anti-Judaism I believe. So I'm not following why people who call anti-zionists anti-semites are racists for equating jewish religion to semitic culture, since there doesn't seem to be any reason to think that that's what they're doing. You'd think people who associate anti-zionism and anti-semitism would be people who think that Israel is a non-religious state of more or less secular jews and the people that are against it are against the culturally semitic population, but not neccesarily the jewish religion.

And does that stuff about grocery stores with exotic food really happen? Don't grocery stores usually have low enough margins that they wouldn't be buying up exotic (and probably thereby expensive) food just for marketing/throwing away purposes? I mean, why would a grocery store use psychological marketing with things they're not going to sell anyway? It's not like they need to use complicated marketing to get you in the store, it's a grocery store, everyone has to go there anyway, it's not like they need to be convinced to shop for food by the idea that they might be cooking something fancy. Not that grocery stores don't throw away food, but I don't think they're deliberately buying too much food that they know won't sell just to look fancy, it just seems pretty contrary to their own interests.