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Like the example that brings this to mind is people saying “I didnt know Dracula was Jewish coded, I thought he was coded as [insert other group here]”

And the thing is I don’t think Bram Stoker was particularly invested in seeing those as different types of person! As far as the text of Dracula is concerned Jews ARE evil aristocrats ARE undifferentiated, Orientalized inhabitants of the Ottoman borderlands ARE vampires. This is one of the many reasons I think it’s silly to try and “claim” some kind of unique relationship to this kind of scattershot oppressive coding. A man can be racist against

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Is Dracula antisemitic = yeah

Is Dracula also depicted as a boyar, a class to which Jews have never belonged = yeah

Does Dracula also come across as racist toward Romanies and The Ottoman Empire Generally = yeah

Did Stoker choose to metaphorically depict English landlords in Ireland as Ottoman Jewish Boyars to make them look more Evil = Probably yeah

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,