A 'fact check' claiming Jewish people reject the plus sign out of hatred for the cross.
Calvin Robinson posted, labeled as a fact check, that Jewish people don't use the plus sign “because they find the cross so offensive,” calling them “the only people in the world” to reject it.
The claim is an old myth: an invented practice assigned to Jewish people as a whole, framed as hostility toward the majority religion.
The fact-check label is the delivery device. At 271,000 views, it was this account's widest-carried item of the week.
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"Fact check: Jews do not use + sign for addition because they find the cross so offensive. They use ◩ instead. They are the only people in the world to reject the + because they reject the ✝️."
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