i am of course tempted to make a joke about the harley quinn show being an example of gay people cannot have shit ever without some disgusting add-on trying to lump itself with us but the antisemitism in that show seems to fly under the radar and THAT is the bigger problem at hand here
Jews will talk 'subtle' antisemitism (read: antisemitism that isnt openly calling for death to Jews) and how dangerous it is and how it introduces people to antisemitism and people will ignore them then be shocked when Jewish people are hurt in real life. "How can people think like this in current year?' Because you ignore it until it's the absolute worst.
You can reblog fuck nazis post and protect Jews post, but you still have to advocate against antisemitism and it all starts with shows with badly hidden antisemitism
For anyone wondering
In the very first episode they made Oswald Cobblepot and his wife throwing their son a bar mitzvah. The Cobblepots are very rich, even handing out bags of cash as gift bags. They also control Gotham’s largest bank.
In the fifth episode, Ivy’s Jewish landlords burn down their own building for insurance and called it “Jewish lightning.”
The antisemitic caricatures of Penguin and his family, and of Sy Borgman and his wife, are reminiscent of Julius Streicher's work in Der Stürmer
A reminder that there were no major works prior to this that characterized Cobblepot as Jewish. They made a character Jewish just to make him the subject of antisemitism.
I literally cannot empathize enough how much this bs happens and people tell us Jews that we're "overreacting"
Don't forget how the show actually removed Harley's Jewish heritage (which was present in all her previous incarnations) just for this series, and then immediately put these jokes in. It's very obvious and deliberate, and taints the whole series for us.
