Originally published at: This airplane banner isn't an anti-semitic statement but rather a marriage proposal | Boing Boing
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Yikes! All around, Yikes!
This is like a speculative-fiction version of the fascist-right update to the Die Judenfrage.
Maybe he was having lunch with some guys at NBC?
I was trying to think what name can be turned into Jew. Then I realized there are some people that call me ‘Juju’ which is phonetically the same as ‘Jew Jew’.
My guess is Jewels, Julia, etc. Looking through census data there are about 1600 people named Jew. So it might be an actual name.
I have a sister-in-law whose nickname is “Ju”, short for Julia.
As a kid I always thought “Choo-Choo” from Top Cat was “Ju-Ju” Choo-Choo | Top Cat Wiki | Fandom, like the candy Jujubes Jujube (confectionery) - Wikipedia.
(Singing)
Who put the bath salts in the candy dish,
FLORIDA MAN!
Who for an Instagram balanced the baby on the alligator,
FLORIDA MAN!
I don’t think you’ve met enough Florida people. If nothing else, he realized he made a mistake, and then expressed regret, so he’s way ahead of the Governor, Matt Gaetz, the > 5 million or who voted for Trump in 2020…
Well, it isn’t like anyone in that part of Florida had ever met a Jewish person, so might have had an inkling of the potential problem. /s
(My father lived around a mile from there.)
Nickname or maybe initials?
Yes, very much looking for hay in a haystack.
I can totally see how someone, thinking only of love and marriage, would not see the problem. But, other people where involved in creating the banner, right?
They, too, were blinded by unrelated love.
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