Can someone disentangle (sorry) octopus as c20 antisemitic trope from the octopus as anti-monopoly trope for me? I like a good anti-monopoly octopus but I feel twitchy about posting them now that I know about octopus-as-antisemitic-trope, esp. since I don't know if/how the tropes are related.
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Kevin M. Kruse
You're saying the billionaire's operation is like an octopus?
An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?
An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?
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The "Curse of California" depicting the Railroad monopoly as an octopus is from 1882. So I'd say it came afterwards.