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And here I thought they used it because it's tradition to portray Jews as pigs for European anti-semites for centuries now.
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").
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