He certainly wasn’t saying that J. K. Rowling is an anti-Semite or that the Harry Potter movies should be expunged from our collective memory. But he did talk about “how some tropes are so embedded in society that they’re basically invisible even in a considered process like moviemaking,” so it’s not like he was just…

Books on the origins, history, and cultural depictions of anti-Semitism are freely available at your local library.

“There is no reasonable person that could have watched it and not seen it as a light-hearted conversation amongst colleagues and chums having a larf”

He’s saying he was serious, but that making this about Rowling or Potter specifically instead of ALL of us is a bad take.

“but aren’t goblins traditionally greedy and obsessed with gold and jewelry in folklore”?

And they are because...? That’s the point. Not that Rowling is particularly evil in this particular matter, but that we all generally accept this in massively successful children’s media and literally do not care.

That, or its so casually accepted that people would rather hold onto their half-hearted care for minor characters in pieces of genre fiction that they don’t even like than actually interrogate the origins of this supposed “mythological folklore”. That we’re so inundated with these caricatures that we don’t see them…

As a half-Jew, I have to say that part is just factual, though.

Person right about one thing but wrong (by, I guess, association) about another thing. More at 11:00.

Or you know, Star Trek's big nosed greedy Ferengi. There's a lot of this stuff in pop culture if you look.

That was McCartney's original title.

The one physical description from the books I could find describes a goblin as short, with a “swarthy, clever face” a “pointed beard,” and “long fingers and feet.” So maybe there’s some plausible deniability there, but...

Hey Jew!

That belief seems like a bit of a liability if your job is to literally safekeep a bank vault!

What about this guy?

NFTs are a fucking scam. Most people realize this, QT fans or not. And Tarantino has had a string of bad takes over the past few years. Not to mention his, (along with a multitude of others in Hollywood), knowledge of Weinstein’s crimes. Crimes which he was too concerned about his own career to do anything about.

They used to serve piping hot beef broth at football games in England when I was a kid. I sometimes hanker after the taste, and these are my go-to...

Just have chicken soup without alcohol like a normal person

Wait, you have a Dry January article and a cocktail article posted on the same day???

I enjoy Tarantino movies but god damn is he trying his damndest to alienate his fandom.  

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