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Whatever someone’s politics are, these caricatures are gross and way over the line. Criticism doesn’t need to lean on antisemitic imagery.
Side view for more comparison:
Top right: clearest case IMO. nose clearly bears no resemblance to his actual nose, whereas large hooked noses are the most common physical anti-semitic stereotype.
Top left: huge lips is another classic Nazi stereotype. Big ears arguably also, but he does have pretty big ears. The drooping eyes are a more subtle stereotype, but given that his actual eyes are narrow, not drooping, that's pretty suspicious IMO. Contrast top-right, which caricatures his real eyes.
Bottom left: fucking cursed, but I can't see anything anti-semitic
Bottom right: unhinged, but again not anti-semitic that I can see. There have been some depictions of jews as snakes, hence having forked tongues, but they're not super common that I can see so it's a bit of a stretch.
for the bottom right: the tongue is not forked on the actual ghost, they added that intentionally
OK but saying a politician is a snake or devil of some kind isn't unusual, so unless we can find some anti-semitic trope it's based on, I don't see it.
Ironically, the most common example I know if is Farage as depicted by Martin Rowson!
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What the actual fuck. Nevermind the antisemitism for a second, why are they even bashing politicians based on appearance in the first place? British media is unhinged.
It's a standard thing they do to anybody vaguely left wing.
If your election promise isn't to go visit all the billionaire media owners and personally suck them off, you're not going anywhere in the UK.
Yeah if you published something like that in Sweden you'd get pitchforks shoved up your ass.
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OP is SO STUPID! NONE of these Cartoons showed someone PROTECTING Children from Bombs or PUSHING away Dogs that are RAPING Children! THOSE would be Anti Semetic!
-The BBC and Keir Starmer!
The rich are afraid of chad Polanski
Photo of the guy for comparison
With teeth like that how could he be anything but British?
Why is teeth shaming okay? Try to stop being a classist asshole.
I didn't really associate the stereotype of bad teeth with lower class British people. AFAIK the stereotype comes from even rich British aristocrats supposedly having bad dental care.
That said, you are right that applying that stereotype to specific people without first checking if they're upper class is more likely to hit lower class people, especially with how culture has shifted since the stereotype was first formed.
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But are these anti-jewish depictions or are they caricatures? Pretty sure those anti-jewish depictions were caricatures in the first place so hmmm. Is there any proof that this isn't a common way to depict politicians in the UK? Because it feels like typical caricatures.
I disagree. This same argument can be made for a minstrel style depiction of obama. It is precisely their historic use that makes them problematic.
Can you frame it as a whole problem and not a "it's okay for some groups of people but not okay for other groups of people" problem where you want to act like treating people different based on their race or religion is moral?
What? Context exists. Historically, we've enslaved peoples, we've genocided peoples, and so on. And yes, sometimes yhis entails different treatment of those peoples to right those wrongs. Pretending otherwise is some white lives matter shit.
It is worse to say the n word than it is to say cracker, and I will die on that hill.
Exactly context exists. So why is it totally thrown out in your argument? Political satire is the prevailing context, political caricatures. By nature they are meant to be offensive.
It is worse to say the n word than it is to say cracker, and I will die on that hill.
That is false equivalence. Also comparing the n-word to ''loud poor idiot" is wild.
Making an offensive depiction of a black person is not racist. Making an offensive depiction of a jewish person is not anti-jewish. And as long as we are getting offended on behalf of entire groups, I am offended on behalf of all black and all jewish people because you think they are so tribally thin skinned that they need special protections against something the other ethnicity politicians hang on their walls.
Hey let me try one : So because movies had racist depictions of black people, no black people should be allowed in movies? Actually that isn't such far off false equivalence now is it? That is what you want for political satire.
E:Look up street caricature artists some funny shit out there dude lighten up fight an actual problem talk to an actual activist see where your efforts will be valued.
I'll start by saying I'm not Jewish or a expert in Jewish caricature history so grain of salt:
I'd say top left gets a pass. top right is literally the greedy merchant meme and it barely looks like him. even if it did look like him, you should still be careful not to invoke the Nazi depictions.
bottom right would normally have the highest benefit of the doubt, except Slimer has a very distinct large tongue and they couldn't help but give him a forked tongue.
Bottom left doesn't look like him at all. So it would get a pass but it feels like they focused so much on his nose that they forgot to make it resemble him. So that's also suspect but eh, whatever.
Top right and bottom right are def antisemitic imo. they definitely knew what they were doing, and if you think there's plausible deniability, that was part of the calculation.
top left: agree
top right: it's a typical caricature
bottom left: extremified features are typical of caricatures
bottom right: snake tounge is a descriptor of politicians it means liar it doesn't mean jewish.
Search up UK political caricatures these are really typical. It's probably got a lot more to do with oldmate having stereotypical features and being a politician than anything else based on available information.
they definitely knew what they were doing, and if you think there’s plausible deniability, that was part of the calculation.
That is just plain false you are lying...
Slimer is not Jewish tho for one thing ectocooler was NOT kosher and also when he was eating books in the library those were vellum manuscripts which as you know can only be eaten by Jewish ghosts under certain very specific
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Because when they talk about "anti-semitism" they are actually talking about anti-ZIONISM. Since they are a vassal state of USrael.
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I lack reference. I see caricatures. How do they differ to be specifically antisemitic? Is there a specific detail that makes them that?
Yes, it's extremely obvious and disgusting, especially the top two: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Merchant
The forked tongue in the fourth one too...
Damn this is 100% antisemititic coded.
No it's check notes anyone who critiques a nation on genocide. At which point we will lump all members of their prominent religion into the same bucket because that's equality.
Who is the "we" in there?
The media is truly scared of politicians that can't be bought out
The one on the top left doesn't even look like him.
I have no idea who this is so I looked him up, none of them look like him. He’s a totally normal looking guy? I’m American so I think he could use braces but I’m culturally obsessed with teeth, other than that he looks like any other white guy I’d see on the street… I always feel like going out of your way to focus on someone’s looks just makes you look weak, like if all you have is what the person looks like you’re really not saying anything of value
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