• SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    It’s quite racist (and antisemetic) to think that just because things look similar that they were intended to be the same thing. They’re not.

    smuglord “Oh, you think that this fantasy race that has many of the anti-semitic tropes of Jewish people might in fact be a reference to Jewish people? Well, you’re the one who associates those features with Jewish people, not me. Just saying.”

    This is where the moronic “maybe the curtains are just blue” reddit-tier analysis of literature gets you - completely unable to see any kind of allegory or metaphor, especially when bigots say that, no, that person in that book totally isn’t a racist caricature, it’s just a person with those traits!