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Actually this is a point a lot of Jewish people are sick of having to make over and over. You not knowing this doesn’t mean it’s a bad take but that it’s a symptom of Christian hegemony and Jewish erasure. Christians at best treat the Pharisees just the way you do- as historical figures and symbols for hypocrisy. At worst “Pharisaic Judaism” is a (common!) term of blatantly antisemitic abuse; references to the “synagogue of satan” and even “Talmudic khazars”are often not far behind. This rhetoric historically bears the message that Jews are illegitimate for not being living fossils of the Israelite religion. Not far from the rhetoric that non Orthodox or non Zionist Jews are “fake” which we hear constantly from both the Christian and Jewish right.

As for the history- Pharisees were a popular folk religion of the Israelite monarchy era, in contrast to the Sadducees who were priestly, courtly elites. Thus the Pharisees were positioned to (re)establish the Jewish religion after the end of the Israelite religion and state. So no we aren’t down with Christians (or post-Christian anarchists) perpetuating their centuries long tradition of anti-Jewish rhetoric, ignorance and erasure by reducing our cultural foundations to cartoon villains.