RE: The right.
March 15, 2020 at 6:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2020 at 7:34 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 15, 2020 at 6:38 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Hmm, the internet seems to think Swarthy just refers to olive-skinned people with, sometimes, the added characteristic of being weather-beaten. Some mention of pirates and worthiness, but not a mention of anything to do with the Jewish people except the image Fake Messiah has was one of the images when I searched for Swarthy.
Oh well, that's OK then.
The blatant anti-Semites who use the word to describe a Jewish painter are just thinking about complexion.
(I met Rothko's kids once. They are not more olive-toned than I am.)
If you Google "oily" it probably won't mention anti-Semitism either, but it was still a word commonly used to describe Jews in older literature.