Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social

It's hard to talk about something if we can't see how insidious ideas got there in the first place. A history of antisemitism to illuminate where harmful anti-Jewish tropes remain alive in our discourse today-- and how to pull them out of legitimate political conversation. My latest:

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𝑆𝓷𝝰𝐜𝘬𝜶𝑰𝗝а𝒄𝓀𝒶ℓ🔞🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 (Coms Open) @snackaljackal.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Wait the evil mother from Tangled is a antisemitic stereotype?

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Marlene Oliveira @moflow.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 18, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

Thank you for writing this. It's both hard to read (especially some of those modern examples) and very eye-opening.

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@deneen.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

1.) I can't overstate how nearly all conspiracy theories are like one coat of paint away from antisemitism. 2.) I wish there were more distinctions between Israeli/Jewish and Hamas/Palestinian.

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Cindyloohoo73 @cindyloohoo73.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

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Casey @thecasey.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

The content here is so important, but you also have a skill for connecting the dots that is a critical part of why these pieces are as effective as they are. Thank you.

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Nicolas Demers @npdemers.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

Oh jeez it hurts when a beloved classic from your childhood (The Smurfs) turns out to have antisemitic parts ☹️

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Hampton @hamptonstevens.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

Beautiful work!

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lithmick.bsky.social @lithmick.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

Excellent stuff depressing and eye opening

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Daphné (she/her) @daphne36.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 07:05 UTC

GOOD LORDS! I never realised how much antisemitism, I had been unknowingly exposed to in pop culture!!!

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Hesper | Questing Kobold Mage | PositiVT ➕🌟 @hesper.positivt.space [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

Your expertise with inclusivity without engaging in rage-baiting is deeply commendable and admirable, and it really illuminates the machinery we're all currently being churned up inside. Thank you for helping everyone see this nightmare more clearly.

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Divercat42 @divercat42.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

Fantastic article. Thank you

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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

This is fantastic. Thank you, rabbi.

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rex 🦖 @rexs1gma.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 00:11 UTC

Good to see prominent placement for She Who Will Not Be Named’s contribution

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FactsMustWin @factsmustwin.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 26, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

I am no expert on anti-Semitism, but when you point out "how can [it] seem so invisible" I was reminded of my activism in the LGBT community. When working with opponents I noticed homophobia resembled anti-semitism more than other -isms (secret cabal, etc.). I speculated at the time that ... (1/2)

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Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 11:40 UTC

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Just (Dr.) Monica @pkpd-babe.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

Great read!

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Jared Banks @shoegnome.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

Great article. Thank you.

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Jazz, Comics, and Baseball @feste.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

<knee-jerk-reaction> No! Not Snidely Whiplash! He came from the "mellerdrammer" western spoof plays, which positioned the farmers and ranchers of the land against the eastern money-lenders... Oh shit.

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Josh "Go Drink The Sea" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 05:43 UTC

Aw not Snidely Whiplash. That guy was my Blofeld. I always liked him in spite of his evils because he was stylish and absolutely terrible at it.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

So first, that was informative and disturbing. I think I knew about 1/2 to 2/3s of that. Thank you for demonstrating so closely how deeply antisemitism is woven into European cultures, and thus ours as well.

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@jiminnh.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

Omigosh...this is perfect for my h.s. "Cultural Foundations" class (essentially Western Civ and Lit). Thank you so much for sharing this.

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@nclud.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 04:01 UTC

Seeing all the things from my childhood that went over my head and looking here like ***whew***, hard to digest. Great article!

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Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 20:41 UTC

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BlazeWarriorWolf/Swiftdrawer/Fireking492 ⚔️@COVIDaware they/them @blazewarriorwolf.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

I just looked up the anti-semitic origin of vampires 2 days ago and did some reading while on break at work. I will gladly read this as well.

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King Bee 📯 @k1ngb33.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

I demand that Ferengi are included in your collage! Why are we always forgotten?!

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

Not me and my wife, watching Frosty the Snowman for the first time in 20 years and realizing Professor Hinkel is an unsubtle Jewish cariacture.

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Mike Cohen @mikec415.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

Great read, but it depressed me.

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Faith Rogow @insightersed.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

Amazingly well done. THX

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@diatonic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

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Corgi @sffcorgi.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

Not as a contradiction to your identification of the Wicked Witch - these things easily run in tandem harness - but my first impression of that trope is patriarchal disdain towards aged women, whose features become exaggerated with age (cartilage growth, skin fragility, loss of fat layer).

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Uff @plackbratze.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

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Elizabeth E H Corbus @eehc92.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 23:59 UTC

Thank you. I really, really appreciate your work. (As a “my beloved friends and family are Jewish” liberal, pacifist, WASP, I am grateful to you for helping me examine and challenge my understanding of history and culture. I have so much privilege and these conversations are hard.

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Adam @thewrkncacnter.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:55 UTC

I have a degree in History and I focused on early European/post-Roman and I didn't realize the connection between Constantine converting to Christianity and the blaming of Jews for Jesus's death. Even though it's completely, blindingly obvious once you hear it. Amazing work, great read.

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Julien S @gogul.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 10:12 UTC

This reading is so eye-opening to me, me being me rather precipitated on epigenetics finally seems to grasp what also @amadeuantonio.bsky.social means by "mother of all conspiracy theories."

The tropes reproduced in the entertainment industry also relates so much to boys being boys drinking beer,

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Ana de Castro @decastro.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

Wonderful work!

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nemo @ind3fatigable.xyz [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 12:02 UTC

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Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Nooo! Not Dastardly!
He was actually based on Terry Thomas who, AFAIK was not Jewish en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Da...
No mention of the bankers in Harry Potter, who in the films at least, cover a wild range of anti-Semitic tropes (though are ostensibly friendly)

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Derende @derende.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

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Slip Slidin' Away @liberallibra.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 17, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

It's as difficult as cleaning a roach infestation out of the RNP(REPUBLICAN NAZI PARTY). No matter how often you bomb, they just keep coming back.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

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Roberta Paikoff Holzmueller @birdyholz.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 15, 2024 at 21:23 UTC

Thank you.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 16, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 22, 2024 at 23:22 UTC

I support all research into antisemitic sons of bitches and wish them to all be sued and protested and so on when discovered. But I must say never in my life when I saw the wicked witch of the west or snidely whiplash or Captain Hook, did I think "that's a Jewish person".

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