Season 1, episode 5 is where the whole narrative of "Walter White had no other choice but to turn to meth to pay for his treatment and leave something behind for his family" ends. He was offered all the money for his treatment with no strings attached AND offered a job to leave something for Skyler and the kids.
And yet people were still making this argument long after this episode.
There's people who claim that Harry Potter and its spinoffs aren't antisemitic because they're just using old fairy tale and folklore tropes.
Folks, I have some very bad news about a lot of fairy tales and folklore: it's antisemitic as hell.
This is because antisemitism has been present in Europe for hundreds of years. It's left an unfortunate impact on a lot of stuff.
Just because you unknowingly use an antisemitic fairy tale or folkloric element, doesn't mean it stops being antisemitic. Other people will recognize them for what they are. Some of those people will be victims who will feel hurt. Some will be people who agree with these ideas, and feel validated and welcomed.
"But if you see goblins as Jews, that means you're the antisemite-"
Well first of all, I don't see the goblins as Jews. That's a straw man.
I see the goblins as hateful caricatures of Jews. I see the goblins as what antisemites want gentiles like me to see Jews as, and are working very hard to make other people see Jews as. I see them as symbols antisemites use to communicate antisemitic ideas and signal mutual hatred of Jews among each other on social media.
Recognizing antisemitic tropes and symbols doesn't make me antisemitic. It makes me literate in the language of antisemites, which is not the same thing.
And since when has ignorance of hatred ever stopped hatred? It has never done so before, and it never will.
Julie Newmar as “Stupefyin’ Jones” in the stage version of the newspaper comic strip “Lil’ Abner,” as compared to her comic book character as done by Frank Frazetta (who was a ghost artist on the strip in the 50s-60s)