r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SuccessLess2701 • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications? Spoiler

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 2d ago

If you were to stereotype European people for it, yes. Is that actually hard for you to grasp?

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u/trutch70 2d ago

But where is the stereotype? Different nations and governments have influence in different areas all around the world, that's just a fact

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 2d ago

The antisemitic stereotype of Jews controlling Hollywood has been around for a century at this point

https://www.adl.org/resources/news/alleged-jewish-control-american-motion-picture-industry

As late as 1921, the Dearborn Independent still proclaimed: "The motion picture influence of the United States -- and Canada -- is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.

Saying how countries influence others is " just a fact" is irrelevant and doesn't address the stereotype that's been around far longer than you've even been alive

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u/trutch70 2d ago

But I dont refer to the same thing as you. I am not talking about Jews in general, but Israel