Would you like to talk about how you see Adam as a Jewish allegory?
considering how much violently antisemitic hate this concept got recently, hell yeah i would lmao!
there's a few minor / character related things for adam that i think relate to him as totally unintentional jewish allegory, & then some larger scheme aspects in regards to the faunus as a whole & some other jewish concepts that apply. again, this is all totally unintentional in the eyes of the writers as they themselves are also incredibly antisemitic, but i'm jewish so those goy can suck my dick.
red hair, while incorrectly associated with irish people — we have phenotypically dark hair & light eyes — was also a marker for jewish people, especially ashkenazi jews. the stereotype seems to stem from all the way back in the talmud: where david & esau were referred to as "admoni", basically meaning redhead. by time it came to medieval europe & the spanish inquisition: red hair was a mark of jewish "otherness" & dishonesty / treachery. adam himself having red hair ties into these tropes, he's othered by society due to his faunus nature & is seen as the "traitor" in the narrative of others.
a lot of "western" / "christian" names are hebrew in nature, due to the violent colonization & oppression of jewish people. these names were anglecized / westernised to strip them of their roots, but they are hebrew all the same. adam itself not only refers to his red hair / the red earth, but to adam in the bible.
aside from the faunus in particular just being really applicable to jewish oppression & survival in the midst of goyishe oppression: adam's specific faunus type can also allude to the golden calf. the sin of the calf, aka the worship of the golden calf idol when moses went up mount sinai, is an important part of the book of exodus.
the golden calf itself wasn't just a sign of insolence from the israelites following moses, but their fear & anxiety that he wouldn't return & they would once again be in danger. adam being tied to this bull & the narrative of the whole tale could very well tie into his own fear of ever being placed back into the horrors of slavery in the sdc & the violent oppression there: becoming his own calf idol in order to lead the white fang in a way that he sees fit to keep himself safe.
adam himself is associated with the colours : red, black & blue. red obviously brings forth the very biblical concept of blood & wrath & rage: but i also like to really tie it to the lamb's blood put over the doorways of jewish homes when g-d's justice for us against the egyptian oppressors came at the loss of their first born sons. that blood, that sacrifice in the moment meant that we were kept safe while our oppressors suffered for their decisions, which tbh can be very applicable to adam.
blue is an interesting one in judaism because it's a holy colour for us, it's usually the colour on our tallit alongside black & white. it's also tied with jewish reclamation & hanukkah: a holiday centred around violence being used as liberation from a violent oppressor. the fact this colour is in adam's eyes could very well show that he sees the way that will need to be taken against the violent human oppressors in remnant.
the way jews were borderline branded with the number tattoos in camps such as auschwitz is basic knowledge of the horrors surrounding the holocaust: adam being branded by the oppressive sdc company that exploits faunus labour while simultaneously dehumanizing them, brutalizing them & often being complicit in deaths under that exploitation — see: ilia's parents — very much parallels this in my eyes, though obviously not to the same horrific extent.
the fact that the schnees are a very german coded family & corporation does little to dissuade this comparison btw.
this one's a lot more generalizing to the entire faunus population which we completely acknowledge had taken primarily from black struggles & oppression in the mid 20th century america. however there are a lot of parallels to jewish oppression also, such as them being ethnically segregated into an ethnostate, the various attacks on faunus being seen as pogroms, a lot of the featured animal types of faunus in the show featuring in the torah & other things.
the faunus has overall just become a blob of "insert oppressed minority here", in a far less tactful way than other groups like them in media such as the x men but hey ho.
so yeah! this is why i see adam, personally, as jewish allegory & why people reducing him to just a "sociopathic abusers", ableism aside, ends up being incredibly reductive because this character is the one who faces the most racialized violence in his life, he was literally a former child slave, he is canonically pushed to actions he didn't want to take & in the end of it, adam's death is treated as the cure to faunus racism because it's never brought up again post this event.
overall it's just really disappointing to see this incredibly marginalized character who, not unintentionally, is constantly compared to an actual jewish character based on combating jewish oppression without respectability politics in magneto, essentially just used as a very blunt tool by very dumb, very ignorant non oppressed writers.
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