Author of the post blocked me even though I was just doing a teachable moment and was being very polite to them so here's the post so we can all continue to learn.
Head's up, this is a really common refrain for Stephen Miller. Remember, comparing Jews to lizard people/reptiles is an antisemitic trope. (The idea that Jews are secretly inhuman lizard people secretly infiltrating humanity to take control.) There are lots of other ways we can criticize his evil.
What if, hypothetically, someone genuinely looks like a silent movie Nosferatu and gives off an eerie vibe of the undead? Vampires are also based on antisemitic tropes, but can we still say he might turn into a bat and fly away?
There's just no reason to compare a jew to any kind of animal or monster when he has given plenty of fodder for specific things he can be criticized for.
I feel like “Stephen Miller is a horrible, uncaring person and I really hate him” pretty much covers it well. No animals, no monsters, just a good, ‘fuck that guy’ response.
Fair. I was thinking more in terms of a rule like “don’t make a such a comparison for a Jew that you wouldn’t make for anyone else, or that reads as an ethnic slur specifically,” but since “don’t dehumanize anyone” is also a good rule, it winds up the same place.
