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The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet’s Favorite Anti-Semitic Image
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The Surprisingly Mainstream History Of The Internet’s Favorite Anti-Semitic Image
Anonymous
2016-04-14 03:37:44
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I stopped reading after about the fifth paragraph, who would write all this about a meme? Do Progs have nothing better to do than complain about intolerance on BuzzFeed and HuffPuff?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-surprisingly-mainstream-history-of-the-internets-favorit#.ftAN71Kwmn
>Obviously, it’s a derogatory caricature of a Jew, and a fairly rote one at that. All of the tropes established by centuries of anti-Semitic iconography in Europe are here: the grotesquely hooked nose, the scheming hands, the evil smile, the wild beard, the misshapen spine, the bulging eyes. It’s vile, but familiar.
>So where did it come from, and how is it used?
*Yawn*