hi do you mind explaining how the "kid stealing" asks were antisemitic? im not rlly well versed in that kinda thing. just wanna learn, thats all
ooc. Hi I'm gonna handle this out of character and assume that you're asking in good faith. I also urge you to please do your own research into antisemitism and to not rely on a roleplay blog for Bruce Wayne to learn about it.
So, accusing Bruce Wayne of kid stealing in anything but a very light-hearted, humorous manner (and even then, context matters) is a type of antisemitism known as blood libel.
Blood libel is Jewish people being accused of stealing gentile children, and then draining and drinking their blood or otherwise sacrificing the children ritually. It has a lot of different variations, but common elements include: drinking human blood, blood magic, ritual sacrifice of gentiles (especially children), human sacrifice and stealing children.
Although blood libel is most easily traced to the 12th Century Christian Europe, there are instances of blood libel from 200 BCE. That said, it is very entwined with Christianity and European culture.
Generally what would happen is that a child would go missing, and any nearby Jewish families would be accused of taking said child. Then, with this as the pretext, the local community would kill the Jewish families.
Many, many, many people have died because of blood libel, and it is not a figment of the past - modern day blood libel is alive and well. In 2019, a gunman entered a synagogue in San Diego explicitly for blood libel, killing one and injuring others.
If you need an example of modern day blood libel, on the more intensely fucked up side, look into the antisemitic conspiracy adrenochrome (Jewish people are harvesting adrenaline from children), and for something closer to home, consider the artistic choice to change Tangled's Mother Gothel from this design to one that has more ethnically Jewish features.
Her nose gets more hooked the more evil she is! Stealing that sweet blonde baby for use in her magic spells. Do you see it? Do you see it now?
So again, comments that accuse a Jewish man of stealing children invoke those centuries of hate and accusation and bigotry.
The asks that accused Bruce of having stolen children from their real families, particularly with the deeply accusative and negative implications involved, are a form of blood libel. Which is antisemitic.