Spiky Bugger
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Sometimes you just have to laugh. A lot of people realize that pork isn't kosher, but not that shellfish also isn't kosher. For fish to be kosher, it has to have fins and scales. And there are lots of other rules, too.
So, I would say this isn't quite as ignorant as the time a store advertised the Passover ham, but you still have to wonder what the point was.
I had a Black neighbor who ROUTINELY used a (very offensive, racist, anti-Black) term. Even when it was just the two of us. I heard it so often I thought it was OKAY to use that term. Another Black friend explained that it was not.
good point!they did it when so many people on the far right (i.e. part of Pence's potential base for an election I expect him to run in) are coming out from under their rocks to express their antisemitism.
And incidentally, I look at the old Passover ham debacle as probably being an effort at inclusivity, given that a lot of people have ham for Easter.
That makes sense. And it’s very grown-up.I doubt it ever occurred to whoever created the Passover ham ad to google anything because after all, it's not PORK, it's HAM! No understanding that the entire animal isn't kosher no matter what you call some portion of it.
We are a small minority in the USA (2-3% at most) and a very small minority worldwide - less than 1%. It doesn't surprise me that so many people don't know much about Judaism. Many people have never met anyone Jewish, or at least don't know that they have. I choose not to be offended by what appears to me to be nothing more than ignorance, and will save my concerns for the people who choose to hate us for no good reason.