I'm Jewish and that card creeps me. I like octopuses. Japanese illustrations with them are cute. But western cartoon octopuses with a focus on their legs reminds me of cartoons showing how evil/corrupt entries manipulate things for their own benefit.

I like really the Standard Oil octopus cartoon. I never remember cartoons yet I have had a fondness for it ever since I saw it more than 20 years ago.

But octopuses can represent Jews too.

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A Nazi German cartoon c. 1938 depicts Churchill as a Jewish-controlled octopus encircling the globe.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup agreed. It's weird and sus

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the other comments here this just seems to be a normal thing. The octopus has no relation to old propaganda and is only used because it has 8 legs and can hold all the candles.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting!

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely get the context presented, but it seems to be common enough that whoever made this just linked the 8 legs with the 8 candles and thought it was cute.