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Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's my problem with wolfenstein. The daat yichud or whatever was a little too close to the secret Jewish cabal that real life Hitler believed/claimed was working behind the scenes manipulating society for is own gains. I don't think the series is pro Nazi, I'd have to be stupid to believe that, but I feel this particular plot point was a little tone deaf in a historical context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

But their while point was that they were super-smarties who made shit through communion with God directly, and the devices they made weren't to be used

They're an ancient Jewish group yes, but otherwise nothing at all like Hitler's cabal bullshit and way closer to something like an ancient "secret cult", made Jewish because it's a series about the Nazis and them only winning due to Jewish technology (and also losing eventually because of it) is part of the catharsis of the whole thing

I read them a lot more like a group of ancient nerds. Which describes Jewish people pretty well if the friends ive had in the faith are anything to go by

I guess I kinda get your point but it feels so explicitly cathartic to make what IRL we credit to Nazis usually (in media their magic is usually them diving sadistically into what others won't, for example) that I think it's the opposite of tone deaf