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kontextmaschine:

I’m surprised how through the Harvey Weinstein thing it never came up that “comically fat and disgusting Jewish theatrical magnates are sexually degrading the actresses onto who we project our trad-hetero dreams” was a major German interwar antisemitic trope

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>@twitchytyrant said: i’m not sure most people were even *conscious* of him being jewish outside of antisemites

Huh this might be a generational thing! Like growing up in the 90s it was just background trivia that “-berg” or “-stein” suffixed last names were stereotypically Jewish, just like O’ or Mc prefixes signaled Irish

But this was kinda a residual knowledge re: midcentury “white ethnics”, I remember hearing about people not realizing that the late-90s wrestler “Goldberg” was Jewish despite that being a classically stereotypical name

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