getting rid of the characters ethnic features… knowing finn is of jewish descent ….. what the hell, sure
Yeah, good point it could be antisemitic.
But this also could just be cheap animation, notice how everyone in this series has the same 'cute' features? I.e the same button nose even with characters played by actors like Finn and Noah with more prominent noses.
This whole animated series just screams lazy cash grab to me.
It is antisemitism, and it’s cheap/lazy.
Why are certain facial features seen as the default. Why is a button nose seen as “cuter” or more desirable? Why do some people think some features are easier to draw?
yeah, lazy/ignorant and bigoted are not mutually exclusive. in fact, a lot of the way bigotry exists in society, especially re: erasure (what is being talked about here), is due to (often unconscious) cultural assumptions about who is the default; so laziness and ignorance are often what leads to the erasure.
which is still a structural bigotry even if it isn’t always intentional; society gets built in such a way that it pushes out and rounds off the edges of difference, such as Jewish ethnicity.
the fact this can happen with even Stranger Things (a show with Jewish executive producers and multiple Jewish cast members) is sad but not surprising
