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It's an anti-jewish allegory with Christian purity morals.
https://gizmodo.com/smurfs-are-sexist-nazis-says-worried-french-sociologis-5808656
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/communist-anti-semitic-smurfs-2-wizard-hitler/
Dang hippie commu-nazis!
You can hate Jews and stereotype them without being an authoritarian Nazi.
This guy
https://images.app.goo.gl/4DYotpZX8N6JVWBs9
Is so similar to this sort of imagery, which everyone knew at the time,
https://images.app.goo.gl/U4tscVecV5XShHNc8
That it's really ridiculous to try and excuse it. And being a greedy capitalist out to stop socialism also tracks.
The rest of it, about purity culture and Aryan perfect women I could be convinced are wrong, because I'm out of effort to look it up. But super coincidence then, amirite?
But claiming he's not Jewish is exactly like the excuses from Rowling about her money loving, hooked nose, big eared, greedy, bank running, goblins.
The anti-semitism caricature is fair enough, whether deliberate or not, but I don't believe it really goes any further beyond that on politics. Community values are only a dogwhistle for socialism to extremely selfish nutbags completely brain rotted by Ayn Rand, and those people love shitposting about communist conspiracies in children's media. By all accounts the creator was uninterested in politics beyond whatever internalized bigotry he had going on.
When you smurf long into an abyss, the abyss smurfs back into you.