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[–]Dragonerne 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This is a cultural/christian reference to "wolves in sheeps clothing", also known as Jews. The reference is about how jews are subversive and deceptive, which they are. Their deception and subversion don't work work when people know about them.

Most of European children stories were about making the children notice the patterns of the jew. From vampires, wolves, shapeshifting werewolves, witches and so on. They're all references to jews.

[–]makesyoudownvote 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not sure if I believe that. This is sort of that horseshoe theory thing, because that sounds a lot like how the left tends to justify these things. All that cloak and dagger, "dog whistle" racism is everywhere, just always masked sort of thing.

Vampires predate even Jews, and the modern vampire origin of Dracula clearly isn't Jewish.

Also if you look at the mythos, they actually seem to have more to do with disease than anything else. Silver, garlic and running water are all ways of preventing diseases.

There is undoubtedly some overlap. I don't doubt that said myths have been used to create fear and distinction from other races, ethnicities and religions, but I think to call it THE reason is inaccurate.

[–]EuropeanAwakening14 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lol. It's funny seeing the things I used to believe being typed out by other people. Makes me so grateful for the ideas I stumbled on that brought me away from this Jewish trash.

[–]jacques1102 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s because the archetype of the “devious swindler” and its historical resemblance to stereotypical Jewish facial features is deeply rooted in the shared mythology of the west. It mainly stems from the fact that many Jews who were in diaspora during the late Middle Ages were the only people allowed to work in finance because usury was disallowed by the church.

This caused most in the developing west to view them as at best a necessary evil and at worst a parasite. It morphed into what we have today over long periods of time so subtly that it is indistinguishable from our cultural mythos.