[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

The world is full of "offended" people looking for something to complain about.

I don't doubt that it is.

However, the world also has its fair share of people whose mothers, fathers, grandparents and great-grandparents were exterminated on an industrial scale by men who wholeheartedly believed that those they were killing were genetically predisposed to being grasping, money-hungry, power-crazed subhumans who oppressed and profited off the poor and downtrodden of the world. Indeed, one of the survivors of that genocide was murdered in France just this week, and the police strongly suspect that the motive was because she was a Jew.

So when people who have the weight of that historical hatred hanging over them happen to see a mural in their own city perpetuating the kind of stereotypes that were used to justify rape and mass-murder by the likes of the Okhrana and the SS within living memory, I don't think that what they feel is "offence", or an opportunity to get their jollies by having something "complain" about. I think they feel genuine and justified *alarm* at the kind of people who are crawling out of the woodwork right now, because they don't want what happened this week to Mireille Knoll to happen to someone they know and love. And they're not wrong to feel that way.

For those who think that the image would have been fine if only the evil, shadowy, puppet-master bankers had looked a bit less Jewish... well, perhaps consider that there's a reason why they were depicted that way to begin with, and it wasn't done by accident. In the same way that Farage and his chums, when making an anti-immigration poster, will always depict a horde of brown-skinned immigrants rather than white-skinned ones; they know *exactly* what they're doing from the word go, and are smirking behind their hand whenever anyone elects to make excuses on their behalf.