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.

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    9 months ago

    Am a Jew. Am well read on history.

    That they are bankers and deal with money it never occured to me that they would be a Jewish stereotype.

    As a black man…

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      9 months ago

      Are you suggesting a Jew would not have a relevant perspective about alledged antisemitism?

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        9 months ago

        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.

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          9 months ago

          So because I don’t agree with you my options are

          1. I’m not a member of the culture I was born into
          2. I’m trolling
          3. I’m ignorant

          With allies like you, who needs enemies?

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            9 months ago

            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.