The 'Nobody told me about it' Fallacy

Way back in 2008 on Debbie Schlussel's blog (1) she commented that she gets a lot of 'anti-Semitic BS' in replies written and sent to her email box. By that we can aptly state what 'anti-Semitic BS' is: criticism for anything Schlussel likes and/or supports, which seems to be equated with 'anti-Semitism', against herself as a jewess, in her eyes. However Schlussel's general misrepresentation, wild accusations and lunacy are not of interest to us here. What is of interest to us is a further comment she makes in the same article where she dismisses the idea of a jewish conspiracy on the grounds that nobody, i.e., no jew, has told her about, or let her in on, a jewish conspiracy. (3)

She uses the example of international bankers, or as it is more commonly called international finance, as the practical example to show in her eyes how 'insane' such an idea is.

This is a common fallacy often used by jews in order to counteract claims of a jewish conspiracy and can be answered very simply. In that it is using the fallacy of unfalsifiability in order to attack a straw man characterisation of the varied anti-Semitic arguments on this point.

It is using the fallacy of unfalsifiability, because there is no proof and can be no proof that nobody told or informed the jew or jewess in question about a conspiracy of any kind. Therefore the argument is unfalsifiable, because we cannot prove or test whether the jew or jewess in question has been told or informed about a jewish conspiracy, and therefore it is invalid. It is a straw man fallacy, because the anti-Semitic position is very varied and no anti-Semitic school of thought actually argues that all jews are involved in a conspiracy against something, but what is posited by some older anti-Semitic schools of thought is that the conspiracy is centred around jewish identify and therefore all jews are potential - not actual - conspirators.

Therefore all jewish claims there is not a jewish conspiracy, because they 'haven't been told about it' are fallacious arguments and cannot be used to claim there is/are no such thing(s). As an additional comment if they, the jew or jewess in question, had not been told about a jewish conspiracy, if indeed it did and/or does exist, then they as one specific example would not disprove the rule inherent in the argument. So therefore the 'Nobody told me about it' argument cannot be held to be a serious one and nor can Schlussel's specific contention be held to hold any intellectual water at all.

References

(1) http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/12/hey_conspiracy.html#comments

(2) 'Afterward, I got a couple of angry, anti-Semitic e-mails, calling me rude and "explaining" how the Jews control the world (and how 9/11 was an "inside job"). Like I've always said, I'm still waiting for my share of this "control," my piece of the "international banking system."' Schlussel, Op. Cit.