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Are the Harry Potter goblins an anti-Semitic trope?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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Goblins in Folklore - I Don't Know if It Had Antisemitic Roots

Goblins are associated with gold and hoarding money. They have been historically used as a cipher for jewsas as. The main driver of my interest in this is my mutual respect for john stuart and j k rolling. But i find nothing more obnoxious than white people sitting in judgment on what is and what is not anti black races. It's so dangerous and so ugly and so entrenched in our society that privileged, white commentators get to decide what is andWhat is not racest. If you're just tuning in or if you've never seen the harry poxcelde film then please watch it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/harry

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