re: #137 Aye Pod

I’m just pointing out that this whole scary Jew shadow thing seems to be based on paranoia and is not borne out by the facts.

You noticed that also, eh?

I see one post then a second (using the offensive way to describe Jewish people) and I am like what is going on?

Maybe religious people all feel like this regardless of what faith they are. Take a look at the so called ‘war on Christmas’ in America supposedly being waged. The fact that there is no war on Christmas and the evidence they cite is as flimsy as whether a dept store places a sign that says “Happy Holidays” vs “Merry Christmas” does not seem to dissuade them from their assertion there is no war on Christmas.

The assertion that Jews and maybe Muslims are being portrayed in silhouette so they can look “sinister or scary” by American and western photo journalists (and their editors) is the most bizarre conspiracy theory I have heard yet.

What maybe happening if there is such a trend (we would have to see the total number of pictures published to figure that out and I am not seeing anyone here do that statistical work) is that silhouettes are are maybe used to make a subject more approachable - the opposite of making them scary (this is based on what I know about art and marketing).

But even when I cited website after website of photographers telling us that they use silhouettes for such purposes they deny this reality even if when confronted with evidence that the very photographer is saying so in “black and white” words.