Cartoon indulges antisemitic conspiracy

[Behind the Aegis]

In the city that experienced the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, just days after a hostage situation at a synagogue in Texas, you published an editorial cartoon on Jan. 20 propagating the very antisemitic theories that fueled both events.

At the core of antisemitism is a belief in a conspiracy theory that Jews control money, the government and the media. It is a belief that Jews are immoral and conniving by nature.

Steve Kelley’s editorial cartoon illustrates this conspiracy theory, depicting a Jewish man as the controller of money behind the justice system, calling him a “madman.”

The perpetrator of the attack on the Tree of Life building posted content online indicating his belief that George Soros controlled the economy and bankrolled refugees, motivating factors behind the attack that killed 11 beloved members of three synagogues.



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[Pachamama]

1. There is more and more of this appearing and being "normalized"

This is very dangerous and worrisome.

Thanks for posting.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Normalization is exactly what is happening in regard to anti-Semitism.

It is also happening in other arenas of bigotry as well, and it is a very dangerous precursor.

[Azathoth]

6. The Soros stuff is thoroughly normalized in the GOP

It's as mainstream there as talking about the Koch brothers used to be on DU.

[madaboutharry]

2. I have no words.

This cartoon is an modern update of the anti-Semitic propaganda seen in Nazi Germany in the years leading up to the Holocaust. It is an old trope that too many people believe.

[Tommymac]

7. Sad to see what the new RW Conservative owners have done to the once proud Post Gazette.

Makes me sick to my stomach. They bought this once proud Pittsburgh Liberal Publication after the Pittsburgh Tribune stopped printing a paper edition.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Kelley has form as a sexist cartoonist as well. The Post-Gazette really has sunk low.

The first was printed on Jan. 13 and depicts a straight couple at a fancy dinner. The woman says “As a modern woman, I'm all for eliminating traditional gender roles, at least until the waiter brings the dinner tab …”
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Kelley replaced former P-G cartoonist Rob Rogers when he was fired in 2018. Rogers claimed he was fired for criticizing decisions to pull his cartoons about President Donald Trump. P-G publisher John Robinson Block said in Politico that Rogers was fired for “a lack of diversity of subjects.”

“I wanted clever and funny instead of angry and mean,” Block told Politico in June 2018.

Link to tweet

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/sexist-cartoons-in-the-post-gazette-draw-ire-from-pittsburghers/Content?oid=13147054

Kelley has moved from "angry and mean" to "malicious and hate-filled".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I have a friend who was elected DA with Soros support

Soros also helped flip Harris County DA.

[PCIntern]

8. Reprehensible...but never surprising.

Are you old enough to remember the saying that “Hitler would’ve left one Jew alive so he would’ve had someone to blame for everything that went wrong.”?