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So why did the hook nose "become a thing" in discriminatory appearance?
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RE: So why did the hook nose "become a thing" in discriminatory appearance?
(January 16, 2018 at 8:38 am)Roberto Wrote: Well the manuscript in the picture is from 800s i think. But what i am saying the so called demon noses or whatever. In modern times its more common with jewish stereotypes, so i am more looking for history to see if there is something behind it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_nose
Jewish nose or Jew's nose[1] is a racial stereotype[2] that refers to a hooked nose with a convex nasal bridge and a downward turn of the tip of the nose[3] that was singled out as a hostile caricature of Jews in mid-13th century in Europe, and has since become a defining element of the Jewish stereotype.

It's because when people are repeatedly told in hundreds of Biblical verses that they are depraved, degenerate, hopeless, lazy, ignorant, and helpless; when they are repeatedly demeaned, degraded, and debased, they will much more easily fall into a feeling of hopelessness and despair when conditions do not develop as they desire.

In conditions of that kind people will tend to look upon themselves as the source of all failure when, in reality, much of that which occurs is beyond their control. Nearly every factor of real significance in a person's life is beyond his influence. All the time the powers-that-be are telling you how free you are, that's exactly what you aren't. No wonder people are so beset with difficulties and self denigrating.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: So why did the hook nose "become a thing" in discriminatory appearance? - by Fake Messiah - January 16, 2018 at 8:47 am

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