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the claim that green skin on witches is an antisemitic trope is tenuous at best and an outright falsehood at worst.
various proposals have been made as to the origin, including a literal interpretation of the “olive” skintones of some Jews, public interpretation of the green makeup used to give B&W film actors deathly-pale skin as signifying literally green skin (as with Frankenstein’s monster), and a link between Jews and poisoning
no one seems to have heard of this stereotype more than a few months ago. the most authoritative source anyone cites for its existence is a couple of sentences on a goyische pagan wordpress blog called The Twisted Rope in 2014. combined with the lack of clear origin and lack of other cultural impacts, this Jew feels that claims of a link between green skin and antisemitism are more inventing a new antisemitic stereotype than acknowledging an old one.
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there are aspects of the stereotypical witch figure that are genuinely antisemitic – green skin just isn’t one of them. large, hooked noses and curly black hair are both genuinely based off of stereotypes about the appearances of Jews. the idea of a “witch’s sabbath” is likely related to the Jewish sabbath. there are additional aspects of the witch-figure, like child murder and consorting with the devil, that are similar or identical to antisemitic stereotypes or libels, but “hellish blasphemy” is kind of just what medieval Christians accused people of. it’s not like blood magic was a Jew thing first.
But like, it’s not just likely that they thought of this, but it’s proven – claiming someone was a witch conveniently always fell onto jews in medieval times. Not Christian? Check. Has money you want because you forced them into a certain job? Check. Social outcasts? Check. It makes sense that they’d twist the fictional appereance of witches to fit the stereotypical appereance of a jew.
Also, OP, I’m Italian and all the witches and orchi in the traditional legends my grandmother told me when I was a child had green skin.
ok, first of all, there were definitely lots of non-Jewish people executed for witchcraft in medieval Europe. like, this isn’t up for debate, if you look up “people executed for witchcraft” you are going to get a lot of non-Jewish results. I’m sure plenty of Jews were accused and executed too, and if you were just being hyperbolic when you said “always” then nevermind, but this is a matter of historical record
anyway, I agree that the stereotypical image of a witch is based on Jewish stereotypes? I say it pretty clearly in the post. specifically, it’s based on stereotypes of hooked noses and curly black hair. it’s not based on the stereotype of Jews as green skinned, though, because that stereotype doesn’t exist. I also don’t dispute that witches, among other fantastical beings, are often portrayed with green skin. that’s definitely true, it just isn’t based off an antisemitic stereotype about Jews having green skin, because, again, that stereotype does not not exist.
yeah, I’ve been seeing a lot of misinformation going around, and I didn’t remotely want to get into this but I’d rather not let gentiles run this conversation while we’re all just waiting for things to blow over! Please do circulate this.
why do little kids always tantrum scream like they’re reenacting jurassic park
Their emotions are too big for their little bodies y’all
They feel just as intensely as we do
Well maybe they should get bigger bodies
They do. It takes several years.
Several years??? Typical millennial laziness
im trying the tvpaint demo and it seems cool but like. why cant you save
you know on top of everything else that’s great about Captain America: The Winter Soldier I genuinely think we have it to thank for the fall (or at least marked decline) of the Loki fandom
no one asked but here’s some elaboration on that:
I don’t know how many of you were active in the MCU fandom in 2012 but the post-Avengers Loki fandom was… you know, pretty much exactly what you’d expect the fandom for a nuanced villain played by a moderately attractive white man.
there was a lot of overlooking the fact that he willingly took part in a plan to enslave the entire human race in favor of fic and art where he was inexplicably an unofficial member of the Avengers. he was shipped with everyone – Tony (based on that one scene where Tony gets Loki’s ego trip), Natasha (entirely based on that one scene where he threatens to kill her and calls her a cunt. never change, fandom), Thor (despite or possibly because of the incest factor), even Darcy Lewis (who was, and to a degree still is, the MCU fandom bicycle, probably owing to the fact that she’s the easiest canon character to write like an oc).
and sweet god, the Loki fandom was desperate to prove he was actually entirely innocent. post-Avengers, my dash was flooded with heartfelt analyses of the most minute moments in the Avengers all attempting to prove that Loki had obviously been tortured and brainwashed into working with the Chitauri and that he wasn’t actually complicit in any of it.
(actually the more I think about it, the more I realize how much the Loki fandom was paving the way fr the Kylo Ren fandom, aka the overpowered white boys throwing murder tantrums fandom, but I digress.)
the Tom Hiddleston thirst was so bad that when Marvel had Tom-Hiddleston-in-character-as-Loki reveal the Thor: The Dark World trailer at SDCC (which, honestly, was pretty cool), I had to read a very serious discussion on my dash about whether or not T-Hiddles got a sexual rush out of it and the probability that he had a boner while he was on stage.
and then. AND THEN. IN 2014, Captain America: The Winter Soldier happened. and specifically, Bucky Barnes happened.
you like murder woobies? well lo and behold, the ultimate murder woobie. he’s canonically brainwashed and irresponsible for his actions, and we even get to see how brutally treated he is right on on screen. (I read a very spot-on analysis somewhere that argues that a big part of what makes Bucky so beloved to female fans is that he’s one of the few male characters to be subjected to the kind of onscreen violation of bodily autonomy that most women live in very real fear of, and I couldn’t agree more.) he desperately wants to be good again and is prevented from doing that by forces beyond his control, which makes it okay to be into him while he’s doing the murder strut down a highway aiming a gun at our heroes, because it’s not like he’s actually a killer. that’s just what he wants to be.
he’s everything that Loki’s fandom wanted Loki to be. and they. jumped. ship.
I’m mean, I’m not saying the Loki fandom is entirely dead. and obviously Bucky isn’t the only contributing factor; fans get older, their interests change, etc. but it’s been almost a month since the Thor: Ragnarok trailer came out, and I’ve seen exactly zero posts about anyone wanting Tom Hiddleston to raw them while wearing that ridiculous horned headband.
and honestly? I think it’s because we got a better murder woobie. thanks, Buck.
IM LAUGHING BECAUSE ITS FUCKING TRUE I WAS ON THIS HELL SITE FOR ALL OF THIS ITS 100% FUCKING TRUE and tbh the kr fangirls now would have been loki fangirls if they were the age they are now in 2012 – tags via @spacescaptain
see I wanted to talk about this in the original post but thought it was too off topic so thank you for this in
in hindsight, for sure, the Loki fanbase was VERY MUCH the prelude to the Kylo Ren fanbase, and it’s all part of a larger culture of apologizing and idealizing white boy who throw murder tantraums.
but. BUT. there’s at least room to argue that much of the Loki fandom bailed when they got a new character who actually was what they wanted Loki to be.
and then there’s the Kylo Ren fandom, who have actually and literally fabricated an entire past for Kyle (misspelling very intentional) in which he was OBVIOUSLY abused by his parents and uncle and had noooo choice but to slaughter all of his fellow baby Jedi and kill his dad, because he’s a CLEARLY an abuse victim.
when, you know, standing right next to him you have Finn, actual victim of childhood abduction and lifelong abuse, who makes a very clear choice to NOT BE A FUCKING SERIAL KILLER even though it’s the one thing he was raised to be.
and yet. many (not all, I get it, don’t eat me, but MANY) Kylo fans will try to claim that somehow Finn in the real dickbag here.
I’m not saying Bucky would have been received v e r y differently if he wasn’t white, but.