I wasn’t trying to equivocate the two. When I see stuff like Al Sarkha, I think of Norman Finkelstein talking about how his parents who were Holocaust survivors hated not just Nazis or German soldiers, but all Germans. Obviously, Happy Merchant is very different from that.
My point was that if we accept the specific premise that “antisemitism no longer exists as a form of systemic oppression. Judaism has been subsumed by the white supremacist settler class system” then what separates those cartoons from emotes like ?
My point was that if we accept the specific premise that “antisemitism no longer exists as a form of systemic oppression. Judaism has been subsumed by the white supremacist settler class system” then what separates those cartoons from emotes
Material manifestation of those related “issues” in the current world we live in. One is a cry of struggle from a nation exploited and dominated in the periphery that is rebelling; targeted obviously towards the Entity and their settler-colonial inhabitants. The other is a cartoon used by reactionaries and has been.
I still am a little hesitant about casual use though in the West if you are a leftist. There are better signs for your local conditions; mostly because a sign/banner/etc like that would be completely taken the wrong way from every way. Optics do indeed matter.
Happy Merchant cartoons, created by “A. Wyatt Mann”, are fundemantally different from Al Sarkha. There is no comparison.
I wasn’t trying to equivocate the two. When I see stuff like Al Sarkha, I think of Norman Finkelstein talking about how his parents who were Holocaust survivors hated not just Nazis or German soldiers, but all Germans. Obviously, Happy Merchant is very different from that.
My point was that if we accept the specific premise that “antisemitism no longer exists as a form of systemic oppression. Judaism has been subsumed by the white supremacist settler class system” then what separates those cartoons from emotes like
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Material manifestation of those related “issues” in the current world we live in. One is a cry of struggle from a nation exploited and dominated in the periphery that is rebelling; targeted obviously towards the Entity and their settler-colonial inhabitants. The other is a cartoon used by reactionaries and has been.
I still am a little hesitant about casual use though in the West if you are a leftist. There are better signs for your local conditions; mostly because a sign/banner/etc like that would be completely taken the wrong way from every way. Optics do indeed matter.
Makes sense. Thank you.