ao3sburbanite:

floweramon:

ao3sburbanite:

Anyone that doesn’t believe that people are actively losing their collective shit over TAZ (namely over the comic book that they’re currently making) should take a look at this twitter thread:

https://mobile.twitter.com/01FirstSecond/status/870314035832606721

It’s real, it’s happening, and it’s gotta be disheartening for the McElroys.

Thanks for the link, @stratalibra and god help us all.

I don’t follow TAZ, so can someone explain why Taako being green is antisemitic? I get it in theory, but out of all the things people talk about Taako, I’ve never heard people tall about Taako being Jewish-coded until this green skin thing. So, is he Jewish-coded?

Taako isn’t Jewish coded in any way I’ve noticed, if anything all three characters are Baptist coded since that’s the religion the boys were brought up in. People are mainly angry about the following, as far as I can tell:

– Taako steals anything that isn’t nailed down. Jewish people stealing/hoarding wealth is a pillar of the antisemitic stereotype.

– Taako is often depicted in the witch hat/green skin combo, which is a feature of antisemitic caricature. That picture of a witch we all had in books as kids? Green skin, hooked nose? That was a caricature of a Jewish person.

These things are completely coincidental.

Taako is a fantasy elf, who has been depicted in the comic being produced for TAZ as *blue* (the actual colour the hex code matches closest is “Powder Blue”), and who steals things because he has no morals. He’s a loveable asshole, not a Jewish-coded stereotype.