Cory Doctorow on Nostr: 1. I am a Jew, and the son of Jewish war refugees. 2. That is not an antisemitic ...
1. I am a Jew, and the son of Jewish war refugees.
2. That is not an antisemitic illustration, it is an anti-monopoly illustration.
3. The original (from Puck Magazine) depicted the empire of John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil; it it perhaps the most famous work of anti-monopoly illustration in history.
4. I categorically reject the idea that negative depictions of the power of the wealthy and/or of the finance sector are antisemitic.
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