(March 15, 2020 at 6:31 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 15, 2020 at 6:17 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Swarthy is a bigot euphemism for Jewish?
When did that become a thing?
Swarthy, oily, expensive rings on hands with dirty fingernails -- all of these are old anti-Semitic tropes.
I re-read Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray yesterday and was saddened to see that he repeats these.
Yes, Wilde was an anti-Semite. But, by the standards of his day, he was a comparatively mild and enlightened one.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax