Let's Read All what is left, it's the old photos (Let's Read: Maus)

[Tigranes]

I won't even bother.

More, Vaarna, More!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I'm fairly sure Ulminati is just joking.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

A dirty people. He ought to have called the comic "Ratten".

 

[Darth Roxor]

Sad story bro, that last panel

still

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Yea, the last page is very sad.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Sad? I haven't derived this much enjoyment out of something since I kicked that puppy dog down a creek! Brilliant!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

How stereotypically villainous of you.

 

[KickAss]

Thanks VA, it was an amazing read!

 

[SoupNazi]

a manly tear was shed

 

[Quetzacoatl]

The artist portrayed poles as pigs because it was an animal he felt neutral towards.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

 

[Quetzacoatl]

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

I don't see the contradiction.

 

[SoupNazi]

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

I don't see the contradiction.

Referring to it doesn't necessarily mean the author identifies with that metaphore.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Thanks for posting this, good read. Also, I see from Wikipedia in Poland the pig thing is more offensive than in the states, which apparently the author was unaware of.

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

Mind posting the quotes?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

Mind posting the quotes?

No luck with Google Fu, but like I said this is just something someone told me.

 

[Ulminati]

I'm fairly sure Ulminati is just joking.

What, you think I ham it up a bit on the codex and I'm not a frothing-at-the-mouth racist IRL? I must try harder.

 

[Luzur]

Actually, someone once told me it's a reference to what Goebbels said about Poles, like Jews as mice is a reference to Hitler's words.

but what about the fish?

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Engländare, Luzur. Look at the flag on the front of the jeep they're in.

 

[Ulminati]

I think he meant "why are the british portrayed as fish?"

 

[asper]

Fucking butthurt Jews...Poles are PIGS eh? Why not make the 'chosen race' as lice or fleas then? Would make more sense for them to be parasites.

Seems to be good stuff. It feels kinda random to me the poles are pigs. Doesn't fit neatly into the cats/mice paradigm, would kind of expect like dogs or badgers or ferrets or something. And it seems classic somehow that the dad remarried and now him and Mala just make each other miserable.

It's not random. The pig is a dirty disgusting animal in the eyes of the Jews. No coincidence that this bastard is so butthurt that he made Poles into pigs. The Jews have always felt superior to and never forgave the Poles that gave them shelter from middle age persecution for doing so. Just because they suffered minor(by the standards of the time) anti-semitism due to the control of the Catholic Church in Poland(which certainly promoted anti-Jew feeling) does not excuse their acts during the war. Many Jews helped both the Nazis and the Soviets during the invasion of 1939. Others refused to fight in the Polish army. These are all documented things. I feel a strange satisfaction that their betrayal did not go unpunished.

Another nationalistic Polak with minority complexes. The pogroms on jews by Poles done after the war and systematic antisemitism are also "documented things", just as the crackdown on jews by the communist government in 1968, with broad support among the populattion.

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antysemityzm#Antysemityzm_na_ziemiach_polskich

The characterization of Poles from a Jewish perspective in Maus is rather mild. Racism against jews is still rampant today in Poland - you just need a minimal dose of honesty and experience to know this - even though there are almost no jews in the whole country.

 

[Ulminati]

After giving it some thought I realized there are no jews whatsoever in my circle of friends, among the people I have passing relations with from social activities, people I recall meeting at parties or at work. Christians? Sure. Atheists/Agnostics? Tons. Muslims? Yes and they've generally been decent sorts. hindus? A few. Buddihsts yes, and they're some of the BROest people I've met. People with weird new-age pseudo-pagan religions? A couple of really embarrassing cases that I try to avoid. Jews... Nope. Not a single one. Maybe they're extremely low-key about their belifs. Maybe I move in the wrong social circles. Maybe I simply don't carry enough wealth on my person. They are conspiciously absent from my everyday life through no conscious effort of my own to avoid them.

I guess we can hereby conclude that jews are imaginary and germany never performed genocide!

 

[Darth Roxor]

I know one jew

 

[Quetzacoatl]

I know one jew

Ask him to give you Australia.