yeah i tried looking up what that would even be a symbol of and how that, historically, could be justified, and found absolutely nothing. not even in their “yo, tha’s anti-semitic” claim.

I remember propaganda “caricatures” of jewish octopi ensnaring the world, promoting the myth of a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Seeing how this conspiracy theory is somehow still going strong, I’m not surprised how sufficiently simple-minded, or ill-willed, actors pick up on the connotation, and interpret it within bounds of their very finite understanding of the world. Or twisting confabulated connotations in a weird, whataboutistic way to somehow… critique? others as antisemitic, since they’ve been labeled as such themselves all the time, and can only see and use it as a content-deprived slur anymore to silence and attack their perceived enemies.

Well, either way, antisemitic octopi were a thing in Nazi Germany propaganda. Poor cephalopods.