#antisemitic coding

[mbat]

jews: this thing in fiction feels jew coded to me, this character/group has several parallels to jewish people and i see myself here :)

non-jews: nah, that aint right, its clearly coded to be this other thing/youre stretching so hard to find a connection that isnt there

jews: this thing in fiction falls into antisemitic tropes, this character/group has several common antisemitic tropes that have a long history of being used against my people, and i think we should really consider not using these tropes anymore/consider if theres a better way to go about making the same point without doing it in this specific way

non-jews: nah, that aint right, its clearly coded to be this other thing/youre stretching so hard to find a connection that isnt there

just something ive noticed

[kick-a-long]

Another fun antisemitic conspiracy theory most people don’t understand as an antisemitic conspiracy theory is the irrational fear of bar codes!

Barcodes were widely adopted as industry standard by a Jewish guy named Alen Haberman in 1974. (To speed up groceries scanning)

By the 80s fundamentalist Christians began to believe they were a way to track citizens and were being used by the government for mind control. Sound familiar? There were similar scares about credit cards but they were never as hated or part of conspiracy thinking as the ‘Jewish coded’ bar codes.

If you were wondering why trump went on a random tangent hating on bar codes.

[spindrifters]

I personally am thrilled and think it’s super neat that I’m seeing more and more depictions of remus as a brown boy

BUT

it’s important not to lose sight of conversation within that about what that means for a character who is at various moments coded by his narrative as a) othered and distrusted by his society, b) “animal,” and c) hiding his true nature most of the time

I’m not saying don’t do it! I’m saying KEEP doing it! but with awareness of dehumanizing tropes and an aim to deconstruct them

[lem0nademouth]

it astonishes me that people are so unwilling to confront the fact that Israeli deaths are just as tragic and senseless as Palestinian deaths that they will turn to arguing semantics

[lizallanosborn]

checked out of current spider man rn so I've been making predictions for asm 54 since the preview came out and it's like. It's great how we've ignored decades of characterisation for shitty movie synergy, bad retcons and nonsensical out of character writing for everyone involved. Kinda appatheic to it at this point.

[prudencepaccard]

I was legitimately so fucking cute

kept being compared to Eugene Levy as if that's a bad thing. The antisemitism was hugely disturbing though

[rahabs]

Watching the presidents of Penn State and Harvard hang themselves publicly has been eye-opening.

[theflirtmeister]

sorry for the constant jaws posting but when quint first holds hooper’s hands, matt has a look of awe in his eyes like he’s experiencing a religious encounter

[avephelis]

genuinely cannot comprehend the mental math required to see a "jews for palestine" sticker and decide to stick a "remember antisemitism doesn't help palestinians" sticker over it. do you know what irony is. anyway go donate to fundsforgaza.

[mbat]

[theotherpacman]

elphaba is jewish i don't care if judaism doesn't exist in oz she's jewish

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

anti-semitism and anti-black racism go hand in hand. In the Black Codes, King Louis XIV wanted all jewish people from the Spanish exile to leave Saint Domingue.

[rotzaprachim]

A popular post providing screenshot evidence of Hamas not being so bad has a reblog addition providing corroborating evidence from a website linking to the daily stormer. The daily stormer is a far-right Neo-Nazi publication advocating for white nationalism and in favor of violent antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny and racism. They are not part of a decolonial movement. They do not have your interests at heart. (Since I began drafting, this article has been taken down). Here’s the thing. Despite the various strange choices of wording that have proliferated over the last couple days, antisemitism is, at heart, a form of white supremacy, integral to the function of white supremacy as a whole. Antisemitism is a self-legitimizing conspiracy that centers Jewish people at the center of all the worlds’ wrongs, whatever they may be, and obscures critical understandings and interrogations of the structural problems of inequality and oppression on a global scale. This is why understanding and obliterating antisemitism is integral to the goals of leftism. You should care about fighting antisemitism because you care about Jews. That should fucking happen. You should care about Jews. But I fundamentally think that a lot of goyim, particularly goyim of color, do not understand their own skin in the game in the fight against antisemitism. It is an ideology profoundly linked and in many cases inseparable from racism, and we cannot stand in this struggle alone.

[betterbooksandthings]

“Everyone loves a good villain. One who cackles at the sky and shakes their fist and brings some form of doom to something or someone. It is fun to have someone to root against and root for — especially if they have a fun, cosplay-worthy aesthetic. With all that goes into stanning our favorite villains of all time, there is something to be said about examining the superficiality of villainy.

Like many character types, villains have often been visually identifiable. They have some costume or way of moving or physical features that mark them as villains in the story. Villains look bad or evil. Villains just look like villains. This is where some of the problems start with who we assign villainy to in storytelling. A hero versus villain narrative is often an Us versus Them set up, with Us being on the side of the hero and Them being on the side of the villain.

I recognize that sympathetic villains have recently been on the rise. I, for one, have also argued there are more generous ways of interpreting villains from our literary past. Nevertheless, when we look at the big picture of villains, they are often the othered members of society who are wrong or bad or shunned.“

[bijoumikhawal]

ughhhh

[xalatath]

Literally cannot stop myself whenever draenei are brought up from going. ☝️🤓 They're jewish you know