OUCH!

[irene_mikhlin]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "frithar" <frithar at y...> wrote:
> <snip>
> Well, my comment would be it's a double-edged sword to accuse 
> Columbus of using stereotype of Jews for the Goblins. Because the 
> answer to that is "they look and behave like Jews only if *you* 
think 
> the Jews look and behave like that".

Ouch indeed. When I reread my comment, I thought it might be 
interpreted as attacking? My apologies, I didn't intend it to be that 
way.

> 
> Frith adds: Unless you're Jewish yourself, and you're used to BEING 
> stereotyped like that!  Then it's more likely to jump to the front 
of 
> your mind when you see it...
> 
> Yes?

Yes to what question? :-) I am Jewish myself, so yes to that. But no 
to the second part.  The only thing that jumped to the front of my 
mind when I saw Gringotts was "God, I hope the media does not start 
that stupidity about racist stereotypes that surrounded certain 
flying creature with big nose in the Phantom Menace". And mercifully, 
it did not. :-)

Irene