Excellent! I’d like to speak to the costume itself. You seem to have a very different view of it than I do, and I’d love to get some guidance if you feel up to providing it.

I see the “anti-jewish propaganda nose” that is very obviously the nose from antisemitic literature over the years, but I do not see any other signs of this being and attempt at a “jewish costume”. Every other part of the costume, to me, screams of being a caricature of an upper middle class middle eastern business owner. I have never seen the bowl cut, beard, gold shirt, etc aspects of the costume as associated with jewish people at all.

I understand where Israel resides on an map and the history of the jewish people, I’ve just never seen overlap with those two caricatures. I am also not saying that Macklemore saying “hey I’m a greasy slimeball brown businessman” is any better. I’m just relaying what I see in an attempt to see what you, and others, saw.

Are racists really portraying jewish people in this way and I’ve just missed it? I’m sure there is a mountain of modern, online, magat cave, racist tropes that I’m just not caught up on.