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"Brooklynite" summers at Jersey shore.

Table for "Jew"
N.Y. POST by LEELA de KRETSER, August 17

Could it have been an abbreviation? Still stupid, but a little less offensive...

Contrast:

Historically Challenged Movie Reviews

In which the charge of "stereotyping" is unpacked and dissected in connection with a movie reviewer who wrote that in the film The Great Raid: "[S]cenes of torture and murder also unapologetically revive the uncomfortable stereotype of the Japanese soldier as a sadistic, slant-eyed fiend."

UPDATE: Woman Gets Cable Bill With Derogatory Name
"Bitch Dog."
h/t Ace

1 comments:

wdegraw said...

As a follow up to the "Jew Couple" story, the NY Post reported on 8/19/05 that a year ago at the same restaurant another customer (named Joanne) was given a bill and credit card receipt indentifying her table/her as "Dirty Joanne."

As Slick said in the original post - Still stupid, but a little less offensive ...