I'm so naive sometimes.

[ambitious_wench]

Saw something just now on my RSS feed; you know how it is, you're zipping through the list, and something catches your eye. This time it was a BoingBoing post that puzzled me. An image of two dogs wearing talitz and kippahs--the blue and white shawls and yarmulkahs, skullcaps.

Not bothering to read the headline or the body, I wondered if there really were Jews who'd dress up their dogs for Shabbos--treating animals as family members is a universal human trait, I supposed.

Then I read the article--racist halloween costumes for pets.

*boggle*

Calling someone a dog is an insult in just about every culture. Considering Jews were called dogs by Nazis makes this even worse.

If you wanna see it, go here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/disgrasian/racist-halloween-costumes_b_330853.html

Gah.
GAH.

Comments

[regnad-kcin.livejournal.com]

I think the point of the article isn't that that particular costume was intended to be racist (and, indeed, the ad copy appears to be aimed at Jewish pet-owners), but that makers had to have been really stupid to not have realized that it would have insulting connotations.