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"Pushed Into"?

I'm not sure that this makes sense:

"pushed into marginalized occupations, such as tax collection and moneylending"

I've been unable to find any evidence that anyone was forced into tax collection or moneylending, and therefore this feel like a bit of artistic license.

Even today, there are many professions which are, as a practical matter, only accessible by members of more affluent classes. Despite this, few would accept that the lower classes are "pushed into" drug dealing, pimping, and prostitution. Rather, they are considered willful choices.

The number of professions which jews were banned from represented a relatively small percentage of professions overall, and I think it's a reach to suggest that there were few alternatives other than loan sharking. Especially to such a degree that they were "pushed" into it.

With regards to tax collection, why would a municipality which distrusts Jews, trust them with the unsupervised handling of government revenue?

Were these speculative rationales always the case? After all, weren't a significant number of Jews in these professions even in nations in which they were not extensively banned from other professions? We're making causation/correlation statements without the usual controls, and we want to be careful about accepting specious explanations too uncritically. These explanations may be accurate, but there is at least some evidence which contradicts them.

Also, weren't Jewish people banned from charging interest to fellow Jews? It was not only Christians that took a dim view of the practice, to the extent of banning it amongst their in-groups. Mr. Moral Panic (talk) 11:23, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why not under Trope?

Why isn’t this entry under Trope, Libel, Canard, or even Anti-semitism? Surely it is not the sole example of any of the above. GianniBGood (talk) 19:11, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What does that mean? This article could not be usefully merged with any other. It's for narratives which keep on being revived again and again time after time, no matter how effectively they've been refuted, or how little basis in fact they have. (This was clearer under the article's previous name.) AnonMoos (talk) 19:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This page is about improving the article Antisemitic trope. Just as AnonMoos, I do not know what you mean by "this entry" being "under Trope", but maybe you want to improve the articles Trope, Libel, Canard, or Anti-semitism instead by linking to this article? It would be helpful if you learn the terms used by Wikipedia, such as "article", so people understand what you mean. --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:55, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some irrelevant information in main section.

The last lines of the main section read: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish, including several Holocaust survivors."

I would change this to: "The most recent example is the denial or trivialization of the October 7 massacres, with the victims overwhelmingly Jewish."

Indeed, the fact that many victims were Holocaust survivors is irrelevant to the denial or trivialisation of October 7th atrocities.

Also, the cited source isn't of a good enough quality. Better sources should be found. ContiNuziali (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Antisemitism did not cause WWII

It's a bit disconcerting to read in the main section that "These tropes fatefully formed Adolf Hitler's worldview, caused WWII". Of course antisemitism was the base for the Holocaust but and instrumental for the rise of the Nazi party but nobody has ever argued that it caused WWII. ContiNuziali (talk) 00:13, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doctrines of Lebensraum and Slavic Untermenschen, and a desire to get revenge on the French were most important in determining Hitler's aggressive policies which led to war. Once the war started, antisemitism had a big influence on how conquered territories were governed. AnonMoos (talk) 13:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What you said isn't expressed by the passage at all though and still, I don't think any historian ever claimed that "these tropes causes WWII". I'd say it's even hard to argue that they caused in part WWII. 151.29.93.237 (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]