Anonymous OP 2w

Antizombie

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Anonymous #3 2w

Well I mean wasn’t it bc non-Christian’s in medieval Europe weren’t allowed to join the usual guilds for professions so they got forced into work considered less highly regarded

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Anonymous #3 2w

In Europe this position was taken up by Jews, as due to Christian prohibitions on charging interest they were a convenient tool for the broader society, but were simultaneously easy to segregate and limit to keep them from branching out of this role too much and were easy to expel or persecute whenever convenient

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Anonymous #3 2w

In other societies other minority groups take up this position and are frequently subject to persecution during periods of unrest. In Southeast Asia its Chinese people, in east Africa it was historically Indians, in west africa its Lebanese. These are groups which have historically and in modern times been subject to distrust and periods of extreme violence

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Anonymous OP 2w

I actually didn’t know Jews were barred from joining guilds but that makes sense historically speaking

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Anonymous #6 2w

That’s part of the theological justification for it. A lot of it I think goes back to Rome and Rome’s attitude towards itself and Jews. Many Jewish people were scattered throughout the Roman Empire. As Christianity spread among Romans, it would not be appropriate to blame Rome for Jesus’s death. We see this in the sanitizing of Pontius Pilate. So who to blame instead? Well there’s a convenient already distrusted minority group spread around Europe.

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Anonymous #3 2w

And sometimes you get theological justifications just shoved in way after persecution started. In southern France, for example, there was a persecuted minority called the Cagots. Local legend claimed they were descended from the carpenters who built the cross Jesus was crucified on, providing religious backing for their persecution. That’s obviously ridiculous, but people believed it.

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Anonymous #5 2w

Lazy cop-out Nazi dogwhistle that doesn’t actually mean anything

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Anonymous #3 2w

There’s also a really interesting/depressing history in England specifically about the Jews who came over with the Normans and were seen as essentially allies to the invaders and at times really thrown under the bus by the Christian Norman gentry. It’s worth looking into.

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Anonymous #6 2w

This logic really only works if one is antisemitic in the first place and forgets Jesus was a Jew executed by the Romans.

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