How or Why is an Octopus toy Considered Antisemitic

[spen666]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...st-israel-hamas-terrorism-climate-change.html

Can anyone explain this to me?

 

[Mr Celine]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...st-israel-hamas-terrorism-climate-change.html

Can anyone explain this to me?

It's a hyperlink to a Daily Mail article. You click on the text and your browser will take you to that page on the Daily Mail website. HTH.

 

[winjim]

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/anti-jewish-propaganda

My kid has the same octopus though. It's reversible to be smiling or frowning so helps communicate emotions. That's why it's useful for autism.

Martin Rowson recently got in trouble for similar.

 

[winjim]

Thunberg has now cropped the octopus out of the picture.


View: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1715355506078892505?t=H95ukrGJm2P24vZX2orPHg&s=19

Edit: cropped or reshot, I'm not sure. Maybe the latter as it was over her shoulder.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Cock-ups happen, and I believe it is unlikely that she would have deliberately used an anti-semitic octupus trope, especially with a Jewish friend sat next to her.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Should I change my energy supplier?

 

[Deleted member 49]

Without clicking the Daily Heil link is Baddiel in there somewhere 🙄

 

[spen666]

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/anti-jewish-propaganda

My kid has the same octopus though. It's reversible to be smiling or frowning so helps communicate emotions. That's why it's useful for autism.

Martin Rowson recently got in trouble for similar.

Still do not see why Thurnberg is being accused of being antisemitic for the octopus in her picture



Are all pictures of octopuses to be banned as anti semitic?

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Still do not see why Thurnberg is being accused of being antisemitic for the octopus in her picture

Was she being antisemitic? - no.
Can you work out why she's being accused of being antisemitic? - I think you could if you tried.

 

[BoldonLad]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...st-israel-hamas-terrorism-climate-change.html

Can anyone explain this to me?

I can't explain it, sorry.

I am puzzled by Thunberg's phrase "today we are striking", don't you have to have a job before you can go on strike?, or, perhaps, she means 'striking" as in hitting?

 

[theclaud]

Cock-ups happen, and I believe it is unlikely that she would have deliberately used an anti-semitic octupus trope, especially with a Jewish friend sat next to her.

It's not a cock-up. It's an octopus plushie. It looks like this.

The point is not that there's anything plausible about it the accusation of antisemitism - the point is to unleash armies of unhinged online trolls against anyone who stands up for Palestine.

 

[winjim]

I can't explain it, sorry.

I am puzzled by Thunberg's phrase "today we are striking", don't you have to have a job before you can go on strike?, or, perhaps, she means 'striking" as in hitting?

Do you know who Greta Thunberg is?

 

[winjim]

Still do not see why Thurnberg is being accused of being antisemitic for the octopus in her picture



Are all pictures of octopuses to be banned as anti semitic?

She's just being jumped on by the usual thugs.

 

[BoldonLad]

Do you know who Greta Thunberg is?

Yes

 

[Deleted member 121]

don't you have to have a job before you can go on strike?, or, perhaps, she means 'striking" as in hitting?

I can only sympathise. When my kids were younger, every time they saw a duck they would shout "DUCK!"

By the time i got out of the habit of hitting the deck every time they shouted it, they actually stopped shouting that they saw a duck...