briantrumpet
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The eyebrows?
Do they have a history as an antisemitic trope?
The eyebrows?
We're not going to agree on this, as I think he is either knowingly or carelessly using the sort of well-worn trope that doesn't have a parallel for white western men. You don't think that, quite obviously.
This is somewhat the point I'm trying to make.Do we need an official list (updated annually, say) or acceptable and non-acceptable tropes or stereotypes for all groups?
Do we need an official list (updated annually, say) or acceptable and non-acceptable tropes or stereotypes for all groups?
No one is saying anything different Brian.No. Try doing it for white westerners, and you'll see why the Jewish & black tropes are a thing. They are recognised symbols of hate & demonisation/oppression. They are deliberately used to 'other' and ridicule groups of people based on physical characteristics. It's really not complicated.
I'll admit my total naivete when I was younger: I hadn't even realised that Leon Brittan was Jewish until quite late on, when the slurs started to be deployed and commented on. And I enjoyed the Epaminondas books for the stories, but can now see why black people are justifiably offended by the imagery. And why the 'gollies' of Robertsons jam, or the blackface of the Black & White Minstrels have been banished to the history books.
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In practice acceptable/unacceptable is judged by unwritten prevailing societal opinion. In this instance it will be "meh" as opposed to "if you don't think this is anti Semitic then you are anti Semitic".
I am losing track on which cartoons you are combining.
Where is the trope? Is it just the nose? If so, just the one on the right, or is that a Jewish policeman as well?