Googling around, I’ve seen a lot of users and journos claiming they are a jewish stereotype. I struggled to even compare them to what HP did. And as a partially jew, I’m really jealous of qualities these bigots paint and the thinking process Quark put to work. He’s probably my favorite character of the whole franchise.
Hello.
Am a Jew. Am well read on history. I never saw the connection. For me the hp goblins have always been just what a goblin would physically look like.
That they are bankers and deal with money it never occured to me that they would be a Jewish stereotype.
I’ve had this discussion before so I’m very likely to just stop responding after this message but I wanted to show even us affected people aren’t always seeing the same thing you are. Have a good one
As a black man…
Are you suggesting a Jew would not have a relevant perspective about alledged antisemitism?
I’m suggesting that you cannot be well versed in the history of racism against Jewish people and unaware of what I posted. So the remaining options are they they’re not Jewish, and are trolling, or do not actually know history, and are confident in their ignorance.
Either way, their post becomes irrelevant.
So because I don’t agree with you my options are
With allies like you, who needs enemies?
Who said I was an ally? I’m just re-teaching what I’ve learned. I have no skin in this game.
Assuming it’s not 1 or 2 then yes it’s 3. This isn’t an opinion conversation. It’s factual that those drawings were used in racist ways, that banking was used as a racist job, and that Rowling copied both. You can choose to not care, that’s an ok opinion. But you can’t have an opinion that says that facts aren’t facts.