I Drew Some ATLA And TLOK Stuff And Compiled It For You Uwu

I drew some ATLA and TLOK stuff and compiled it for you uwu

"Korra in her Element" I wanted to do something to celebrate Korra coming to Netflix. I'll take any excuse to draw her. Asami is next!

me after finishing a movie: wow that was rly good!! im amazed

movie critics: trashiest movie ever created; possibly the worst movie of the year; complete disgrace

So the lizard people conspiracy is a bit more complicated. There is no lizard people folklore, a man named David Icke popularized the theory on his own. Some of the people he claims are lizards are famous Jews, others are not. But there are a couple of catches. A lot of the tropes or characteristics of lizard people fit into classic antisemitic tropes like eating children and trying to take over the world. David Icke himself claims that Jews funded the Holocaust and implies that the Holocaust didn’t happen in some of his books. Since he is the one who basically created this theory, and he clearly holds antisemitic views, there is a pretty clear indication that the lizard people trope and antisemitic tropes are connected on purpose.

the problem with all of these, “X creature is an antisemitic stereotype” is…

well, if they are, it’s a thoroughly recent invention

because, yanno

Christians didn’t need to come up with coded representations of the worst things they believed of Jews

they just presented it outright

we didn’t have “goblins hoard gold and control the banks”, we had “Jews hoard gold and control the banks and steal the Host and drink the blood of Christian babies and dig up our dead”

With the exception of impenetrable allegorical works that were just allllll about symbolism, from top to bottom… Notsrim didn’t need to invent some kind of fantastic monster to represent Jews 

because to them, we’re already monsters

this isn’t to say you can’t talk about stuff in the context of specific recent creators

JKR’s goblins are grotesque little antisemitic caricatures, just as many editions of D&D made goblins into anti-Asian stereotypes

remember that there’s no One True Goblin Form. There’s no codified rule about dwarves being greedy treasure-hoarding foreigners, in spite of Tolkien. There’s no rule about how long or how pointy an elve’s ears are.

this stuff is all centuries if not millennia old. It’s gone through countless variations in how it has been told. Sometimes, to some people, “goblin”, “elf”, and “dwarf” were all names for the same thing. Sometimes one or the other was extremely specific. Sometimes they were each broad categories, more akin to something like the Japanese “youkai” or “bakemono”.

sometimes, people have sat down and decided to take these ideas and use them to conceal their hatred, to signal others who believe as they do or to try to make their bigotry seem less bigoted by making it about something nonhuman

but that’s recent

because back when people were worried about elves swapping a changeling for their baby, or an ogre in the forest

they were also convinced that “Jew” was itself a category of inhuman creature.

Yes ok David Icke has written many an antisemitic book in which he claims the holocaust never happened and (separately) that wealthy Jews funded the Holocaust.

The actual things lizard people supposedly do can be linked back to classic antisemitism such as blood libels. He teaches that lizard people drink the blood of children and secretly control the government (Jews wanting to control the world is also a classic example of antisemitism).

TLDR: my analysis is that even though the lists of “lizard people” include many celebrities who aren’t Jewish, the theory is still antisemitic because David Icke is and he invented it and it directly references textbook examples of antisemitism (whether intentional or not but... it probably was)

Wait hold on, so I just passed a comment about how “lizard people” is an antisemetic thing...

I don’t wanna muck up the original post because it’s already a war zone, but now I’m curious. Is it seriously used for or derived from antisemetic conspiracy theories?

Because I thought it originated from the hardcore alien/subterran nutjobs, not the Nazi nutjobs...

And I make fun of the lizard people conspiracy all the time so now I’m actually worried that my sarcasm may be misinterpreted...