How Cartoons Brainwashed Us With Jewish Stereotypes

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Published on Jul 24, 2021
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CREDITS:

Created & Directed by Neil Garguilo

Lead Vocals: Jason Alexander featuring Hughie Stone Fish
Backup Vocals: Adrianne Dayle and Gregory James Jenkins
The Objective Owl: Neil Garguilo

Lyrics by Jason Alexander, Dwayne Colbert, Neil Garguilo and Hughie Stone Fish
Music by Gregory James Jenkins
Saxophones: Kip Smedley

Executive Producers: Dwayne Colbert, Neil Garguilo, Chris Michael, David Saint
Producers: Gregory James Jenkins, Rob Oâ€™Connor, Ben Rosen
Associate Producer: Kristin Sanchez
Consulting Producer: Ben Rosen

Editor: Rob Oâ€™Connor
Original Animation: Griffin Giersch
Graphics: Vic Campos

Rafael Raffaele Entertainment, LLC

SPECIAL THANKS

Salo Aizenberg
Julie Chervinsky
Olga Golovanova
Leif Milliken
Claire Pingel

Illustrations Provided By:

-BLAVATNIK ARCHIVE
Blavatnik Archive Foundation (http://www.blavatnikarckarchive.org/)

- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia

- HATE MAIL
Postcards reproduced from Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards by Salo Aizenberg by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska.

- JEWISH IMAGES IN THE COMICS

- THE US LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

- THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE (THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY)

Remastered Archival Footage: Thunderbean Animation

LYRICS:

INTRO:
Since the Middle Ages drawings havenâ€™t been so nice,
To a group of people unfairly slighted once or twice.
They were made to look like bad guys,
And that message carried over,
But it shouldnâ€™t really come as a surprise.
Find out why...

VERSE 1
Before the time that pictures moved,
Cartoons lampooned and knocked The Jews.
Depicted big-nosed, hunched-backed and crude.
To be Jewish became taboo.
So, when those pictures moved,
Bad guys got these nasty features through and through.
Children drank this poison juice.
Itâ€™s no wonder that kids think that weâ€™re the bad guys when weâ€™re portrayed as a costume for a murder-driven wolfâ€” thatâ€™s subtext!

CHORUS
Itâ€™s not only our features,
Not sure if you heard,
But we got hate for something else.
Money, money money,
Yummy money,
We just canâ€™t get enough.
Cha, ching,
Cha-ching, oy gavalt!

VERSE 2
Love of money, the root of evil.
A lesson taught to all the people.
Intention here is pretty frigginâ€™ clear.

Around the globe, in the past,
Propaganda traveled fast.
Posters painting us as greedy sneaks made us outcasts.
The images became a fixture,
Shown to kids in motion pictures.
Messages put in young minds designed to last, and last.
Even in the 1980â€™s, a Smurf villain loved his monies.
His name was Gargamel and he came straight from a poster: heâ€™s greedy, and hunch-backed, and check out the nose.
A sneaky character in magazines,
Dominates those racist memes.
Copycats make it the most viewed. An. Ti. Se. Me-tic im-age through-out earthâ€™s his-stor-y!

CHORUS
It gets so much meaner,
when people draw us,
as creatures from down below.
Thatâ€™s not just about money,
it is suggesting that we feed on human souls.
I mean, sure we eat chopped liver, but thatâ€™s chicken!

VERSE 3
Been, called the anti-Christ since 1225.
Horned little demons, a quarter million times.
Troll-like creatures being normalized.
Again portraying Jews as the bad guys?
Harry Potter goblins are evil as Hell.
J.K. didnâ€™t mean to make the bigotry swell,
But early cartoons have a lingering smell,
Keeping unintended subtext alive and well.
Replace us? Replace us? Trust me, nobody tryna replace ya.
You read the same dumb poster with the same dumb stuff,
You donâ€™t even realize someone programmed ya.

Cartoon-slander needs a rewrite,
Painting false pictures, oh what a fright.
Thank God Tommy Pickles showed kids the light,
And a young Adam Sandler had â€œEight. Crazy Nights...â€
Donâ€™t make someone a bad guy because of their race,
Make them a bad guy because they can manipulate metal and want to force a mutant uprising.
Complex characters. Magneto, baby!