The effects of constructing an image of disgust are so bizarre that in reality, Jewish people did not look how it is said they do. Instead, these constructed images can be used to, as mentioned earlier, sort of “other” Jewish people from Christians, and can make it justifiable to do such actions against other people just because they are different and to some Christians it can seem that the Jews deserved what they got if they end up using their religion as a reason. The effect of making out Jews to be disgusting was manipulated into making Christians feel as if the Jews are in the wrong and to create a sense of threat to yourself or the community they are a part of. Sara Ahmed had a similar experience, in her article “Mixed Orientations” she describes one encounter, “Two policemen in a car pulled up next to me: one asked ‘Are you Aboriginal?’ the other one quipped, ‘or is it just a sun tan?’”(Ahmed 94), she goes on to say how the experience “made (her) into a stranger, the one who is recognized as ‘out of place’... whose proximity is registered as a crime or threat.” (Ahmed 94). In Ahmed’s Article “Mixed Orientations”, she goes on to describe her life of being of mixed races as an orientation, such that people with the same mixed-race will be exposed to different amounts of the cultures and end up influencing their identity. The article also described how “whiteness” is inherited by one’s exposure to different cultures. The effects of constructing groups of people and othering certain groups in modern-day society have similar effects to what happened to the Jewish people in the 13th century. With the construct of disgust “(taking) over the object that apparently gives rise to it”(Ahmed 85), a quote from Ahmed’s paper Performativity of Disgust. By having the reaction of disgust closely connected to the imagery of Jewish people it justifies the Christian actions against Jewish people for being “disgusting” and takes advantage of the rage that disgust provokes in people. The effects of a natural rage felt by Christians motivated many followers of the religion to follow through with the racist steps taken by the kings of that period, the popularity of this ideology is present in the Statutes against Jewish people, Expulsion of Jews, and the pieces written.
