Any human, for that matter.

This is an interesting read. It’s easy to look at how people thought and behaved in the past with stern judgment, but without fully appreciating the context in which these existed that judgment is just gratuitous virtue signaling.

Christian religions have always taught that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. I was taught that in Catholic school in the 60’s. This belief was inculcated in young (and Jung) minds, and so it became an ingrained belief that supported anti Semitic beliefs. Also, criticizing someone for not standing up to the Nazis is easy now, but unless you were there, how can you judge? Nonetheless, we can see that Jung was flawed, and perhaps his shame about his anti Semitic beliefs, hardwired from his upbringing, prevented him from more actively and publicly renouncing them.

One thing seems certain, the shadow expression that he wrote about seems to be manifesting on a global scale now.