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it's more common to portray jews as rats. like i get where you're coming from, but i think they picked what they picked to avoid the antisemitic dog whistle. that's just my read though as a dude with curly hair, a big nose, and sensitivity to "is this person hating me for my jewish ancestry"
A whole range of animals have been used for that (also, the kraken), but pigs left a nasty taste for me because a very common insult for Jews by German fascists has been (and still is) "jew sod" ("Judensau").
for sure. that's like… kind of a genuine challenge with looking for and understanding antisemitism is that how it presents itself changes through the eras. but in our current age, i think people are more likely to associate pigs with capitalism and anti-jewishness than with jews. like. i think it's important and good that we're having these conversations so we can understand the current status of anti semitism especially as israeli backed organizations water down these things by applying the term antisemitism to too many things.
and as you say, there's a major aspect of regionality. antisemitism looks different depending on the place
this stops the famine in Gaza and Palestinian babies getting decapitated by Israeli bombs how?
You know, you can have more than one discussion at once and anti-semitism is still a thing despite Israel’s war on Palestine, and unfortunately, these two topics intersect at certain points.
lemmy lacks all sense of nuance