Big noses are often used to portray ideas of "sniffing for money or opportunity" and also sticking it into anyone's business because of greed - as a physical symbol of personality. Much like large hands are a symbol of a laborer or square hands one good at business.
Was Pinnochio some racist representation? How ridiculous.
"But...come on, Crimson Desert …this is some antisemetic [expletive] or at least it sure feels as such."
Oh, that's easy: if it "is" (which it ain't), it is them. If it "feels as such" (which to you it does) it is all you, baby! If you can't think of anything else when seeing a hook nosed gnome named glodleaf, the problem lives solely between your ears. Rent free, I presume.
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Means your racist, btw. Just so you know, if that wasn't obvious to you.
Makes no difference. Automatically going to “That has to be us!” is functionally the same as going to “That has to be them!”. Might make it even sadder, though.
Nope. Gnomes (sometimes depicted as goblins) started out as a kind of underground dirt spirit that protected "all things earthly". Started in the 1500s and evolved into gem and gold lovers in fairy tales. Could you blame those early sources for anti-Semitism in creating and building the collective myth? Sure, but we have *absolutely no evidence* that that's what happened. Correlations between racist depictions of Jews and centuries-old depictions of gnomes are just that: correlations, not proof or even evidence, really. It's just how gnomes and goblins are now. Nothing to get bent out of shape about.
Well. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought the dwarves in the LOTR books were kind of Jewish. And I loved it. The one and only time I found a Dungeonmaster kind enough to play slow-and-dumb enough for me to participate in D&D, I was a dwarf lass. In LOTR the dwarves are smart and brave and argumentative and they make beautiful things and I just related to them a lot more than the elves (whom I loved of course but found too perfect to really connect with) and they did remind me of my Jewish playmates who to a girl and boy were smart, funny, blunt-spoken, and loyal - is that a bad thing? I don't think so - just like the dwarves. Tolkien greatly admired the Jews as we all know; perhaps to some extent in the LOTR dwarves and the dwarf culture were inspired by Judaism (I don't know). The goblins in the Harry Potter books never felt Jewish to me - they were so clearly not human at all. I didn't see anything ugly in the LOTR movies or the HP movies that suggested anti-Semitism as opposed to an attempt to depict intelligent non-human creatures who lived and worked in rough environments and resented disrespect. No exposure to God of War or Crimson Desert so I don't know what upset Jaffe. I think there are a lot of ugly deliberately anti-Semitic caricatures out there these days so he's not crazy to be touchy as a result but surely he is wrong about this?
Oh, for Pete’s sake. Jewish people and Goblins are NOT the same thing.
He's being self conscious, he sees himself. Afraid ppl might be onto him.
Greed for gold is not unique to Judaism.
Big noses aren't unique to Judaism.
Big noses are often used to portray ideas of "sniffing for money or opportunity" and also sticking it into anyone's business because of greed - as a physical symbol of personality. Much like large hands are a symbol of a laborer or square hands one good at business.
Was Pinnochio some racist representation? How ridiculous.
Wow, Dave. So why do you hate Jews? Is this Art imitating Life, or Life imitating Art?
I've never read a more pathetic, evasive & weak display of fence-sitting than that last Dave Jaffe tweet. What a miserable equivocating clown.
Anyone else find themselves instinctively reading that tweet with a Woody Allen voice? Dude. You're just gross, Dave. Stop.
Let me guess he'd be happier if they were made as Gay Black women with big lips instead? What a loser.
"But...come on, Crimson Desert …this is some antisemetic [expletive] or at least it sure feels as such."
Oh, that's easy: if it "is" (which it ain't), it is them. If it "feels as such" (which to you it does) it is all you, baby! If you can't think of anything else when seeing a hook nosed gnome named glodleaf, the problem lives solely between your ears. Rent free, I presume.
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Means your racist, btw. Just so you know, if that wasn't obvious to you.
He's jewish.
Makes no difference. Automatically going to “That has to be us!” is functionally the same as going to “That has to be them!”. Might make it even sadder, though.
"Antisemitism"?
Woooahh.. I'm in.
If I ever get the chance I'm surely playing this game.
Nope. Gnomes (sometimes depicted as goblins) started out as a kind of underground dirt spirit that protected "all things earthly". Started in the 1500s and evolved into gem and gold lovers in fairy tales. Could you blame those early sources for anti-Semitism in creating and building the collective myth? Sure, but we have *absolutely no evidence* that that's what happened. Correlations between racist depictions of Jews and centuries-old depictions of gnomes are just that: correlations, not proof or even evidence, really. It's just how gnomes and goblins are now. Nothing to get bent out of shape about.
Well. Maybe it's just me, but I always thought the dwarves in the LOTR books were kind of Jewish. And I loved it. The one and only time I found a Dungeonmaster kind enough to play slow-and-dumb enough for me to participate in D&D, I was a dwarf lass. In LOTR the dwarves are smart and brave and argumentative and they make beautiful things and I just related to them a lot more than the elves (whom I loved of course but found too perfect to really connect with) and they did remind me of my Jewish playmates who to a girl and boy were smart, funny, blunt-spoken, and loyal - is that a bad thing? I don't think so - just like the dwarves. Tolkien greatly admired the Jews as we all know; perhaps to some extent in the LOTR dwarves and the dwarf culture were inspired by Judaism (I don't know). The goblins in the Harry Potter books never felt Jewish to me - they were so clearly not human at all. I didn't see anything ugly in the LOTR movies or the HP movies that suggested anti-Semitism as opposed to an attempt to depict intelligent non-human creatures who lived and worked in rough environments and resented disrespect. No exposure to God of War or Crimson Desert so I don't know what upset Jaffe. I think there are a lot of ugly deliberately anti-Semitic caricatures out there these days so he's not crazy to be touchy as a result but surely he is wrong about this?
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