i should probably just write this but goldberg's remarks were reflective of the fact that many americans think racial distinctions between black and white people are "real" but between european jews and non-jews are fake when they are different developments of the same concept
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Going right back to the 1930s, many Americans have wanted to understand Nazi antisemitism as a form of religious persecution, as a punishment of belief. But that is a fundamental misunderstanding of Nazi racism.
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Interestingly, many people when writing (sympathetically) about MAUS describe Spiegelman as drawing Jews as mice and _Nazis_ as cats, when, in fact, he draws Jews as mice and _Germans_ as cats.pic.twitter.com/CssJresQo8
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