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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Well it's fairly simple, he implies that love of money is a Jewish trait in the same way that pizza is Italian, if he had said 'Jewish people like money just like everybody else' I'd give him a pass but saying 'Italians = pizza, Germans = beer, Jews = money' is a pretty despicable racist trope, it is racist incidentally to suggest Italians like pizza and Germans like beer but no one is going to kill 6 million Italians because they think Italians like pizza.
If he apologised and clarified that what he meant to say was like everybody else Jewish people like money I could be convinced that it was an ill considered comment, but on face value it is a hideous thing to say
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Was the statement that "Jewish people like money" delivered in the context / in relation to the holocaust?
I am not seeing that in the quote but perhaps digging deeper it is. Otherwise sounds like you made that part up. And no, saying Italians like pizza and Germans like beer and Jewish people like money is not racist on its face.