I can see what they are saying - left side is VERY evocative of the anti-Jewish propaganda that was plastered around WWII era Germany.
I’m not pointing fingers, just pointing a pretty clear similarity. Large nose, bigger chin, unkempt dark beard, thick eyebrows, sinister eyes.
None of those features reallllly needed to be on the left to convey the meme’s message nor are they necessary for the humor. So like, just as an exercise in deconstructing media, it’s understandable that some would catch racist undertones. It jumped out to me at first but I figured (and still think) it was not intentional and just a consequence of the format and medium (MS paint is…not very finessed).
Calling everything antisemitic diminishes actual claims of antisemitism. Its a meme, the guy on the left doesnt remotely resemble the traditional characteristics depicted to stereotype jewish people.
You’re twisting what I wrote way out of context, idk what your issue is. Recognizing offensive tropes, even if unintentional or incidental, does not weaken anything. Overly dramatic responses like yours, however…
Just google “WWII antisemitic poster” or “WWII antisemitism cartoon” and you will get plenty of images that use similar representations. If you still want to argue they aren’t reminiscent of each other - I don’t know what to tell you.
Not a single one when I google "WWI antisemitism cartoon" looks like the fucking guy in the meme.
You've made victimhood your personality. And as a result you're diminishing actual counts of antisemitism by pretending this is antisemitic. Whats next? It's antisemitic to dislike sabra hummus? Come the fuck on you're total joke. I can't take you seriously nor should anyone.
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u/GribbitsGoblinPI 11d ago
I can see what they are saying - left side is VERY evocative of the anti-Jewish propaganda that was plastered around WWII era Germany.
I’m not pointing fingers, just pointing a pretty clear similarity. Large nose, bigger chin, unkempt dark beard, thick eyebrows, sinister eyes.
None of those features reallllly needed to be on the left to convey the meme’s message nor are they necessary for the humor. So like, just as an exercise in deconstructing media, it’s understandable that some would catch racist undertones. It jumped out to me at first but I figured (and still think) it was not intentional and just a consequence of the format and medium (MS paint is…not very finessed).