News Station ‘Inadvertently’ Displays This Image for Yom Kippur Story.

Sum Ting Wong! Sum Ting Wong!

What are the chances this was a Jew/Israel-hating leftist or Muslim intern, vs. the chances it was a millennial who's never heard of WW2 or the Holocaust? Seems like a toss-up to me.

R2 Chicago has a large Jewish population, including a Jewish mayor. I'm betting the former (Jew/Israel-hating leftist or Muslim intern).

Must have been a dear, Muslim intern. So much cultural understanding and goodwill displayed in their new home.

I imagine this went over well in Rogers Park. When i lived there in the 70s, many of the seniors were Holocaust survivors who could not afford Skokie.

[quote]Must have been a dear, Muslim intern. So much cultural understanding and goodwill displayed in their new home.

Because anti-semitism in the US has always been a strictly Muslim thing?

Given that it's a nazi totem, isn't it more likely that it was a white, "xtian" person with racist tendencies? Not all people with "skin head" neo-nazi beliefs actually shave their scalps.

Occam's razor.

[quote]Because anti-semitism in the US has always been a strictly Muslim thing?

Muslims are neither ignorant nor innocent of Jew hatred. That can be seen all over the Muslim world and in Europe. It is not impossible or improbable that the perpetrator may be Muslim.

Probably some dumb kid who did an image search for "Jewish" and thought "oh, this is pretty."

It's WGN - home of Tommy Skilling and the rest of the network workers who couldn't get jobs at WCIU or WTTW.

I vote for stupidity over racist malice.

I teach at major university. I vote for DUMB -- and lazy. (Might be the fist image that came up on Google, when it was incorrectly entered.)

I'm going with R8. At least it wasn't a pink homosexuality triangle. Now those were glamorous, darling

[quote]Occam's razor.

Sorry - I should have clarified.

Assuming it was the result of a Muslim person's anti-semitism was no more likely than assuming a neo-nazi (which would have been the presumptive logic a few years back).

However, my Occam's Razor suggestion was to go with the most likely, and simplest answer - which would be unadulterated stupidity and laziness.

Don't link to the Blaze, dear. It's the same sort of malice displayed by WGN.

Not malice, just typical WGN. WGN has always hired anyone who would work for nothing. I knew guys who worked there in high school.

Molotov!

Every day we see graphics with misspellings because they hire kids out of college, who were lucky they graduated from high school. There should be SpellCheck on television graphic systems.

I dunno, the badge is on a striped piece of cloth, i.e. a uniform a Jewish person in a concentration camp was forced to wear. It seems almost unbelievable that no one saw that and immediately recognized it for what it was.

People are pretty moronic, R17... last year, clothing retailer Zara sold a striped shirt with a gold star on it and Urban Outfitters "accidentally" does stuff like this all the time.

R10 and R14 are spot on. This is WGN which, during the '10 World Cup, displayed a graphic of S. America and labeled it Africa.

My first thought was this was the work of a millennial dumbfuck who has no idea of anything that happened in history before she started school.

That's what you get when you leave your company to millennials. They don't even know there was a holocaust.

OP, why did you put "inadvertently" in quotation marks. What on earth would WGN stand to gain by doing something like that deliberately?

[quote] Probably some dumb kid who did an image search for "Jewish"

Or Star of David.

If you search for "Jewish symbol," the Nazi symbol is the one that comes up first, but under "Holocaust."

These lazy young people of today don't even know what the Judenstern was.Then again they'll wear Boy clothing with Nazi images without batting an eyelash.

Good thing nobody accused Jews of owning the media.

Im saying r26.

I agree that it was some idiot Millennial intern who had no idea what that symbol was, just did a quick Google Image and thought "oh, that's the Star of David, we'll use this picture."

ACH!

It also could have been a Jewish SJW who created a fuss. Many of the anti-Semite attacks of the past 15 years or so have been hoaxes perpetrated by the misguided or just plain...odd.

Sad

ACH! Das Judens!

Achtung! Der Nazi Waltz!

More faux Jew outrage. They constantly use the Holocaust to emotionally blackmail the rest of us. Slimy fucking snakes. All of them.

R33 Emotionally blackmail a Jew hating cunt like you? Nawwwwwwwwwwww

My favorite is this reporter describing the rapes suspect....LOL I still laugh

I have never worked in television and have no idea how things work but aren't there editors or someone who would (should) have knows the context of that image and corrected it before it made it to live tv? This is truly unbelievable.

R33 What's your opinion on this?:

Nah. Deliberate. Must know "Juden" is "Jew" -- utterly ignorant would not know that.

R38 Some jerk did this on purpose. Everyone knows what The Nazis yellow star badges were.

Well, heard an interview with Brad Pitt where interviewer mentioned the word " pogrom" and actor asked, "What's that word mean?"

[quote]Everyone knows what The Nazis yellow star badges were.

You'd be surprised at how totally fucking stupid many people are.

R32 it is actually Die Juden.

R42, if you say "die" Juden, you will be banned, hence, the pig-German.

I can't believe anyone could be that stupid. Not that I would know what to show as a graphic for Yom Kippur, but jeez, I know enough not to show that.

Yeah, I doubt this was an error.

[quote]Many of the anti-Semite attacks of the past 15 years or so have been hoaxes

Bullshit. FBI data says otherwise. Fuck you asshole.

I doubt WGN, one of the most progressive TV stations in town, made this error on purpose.

It was a dumb 22 year old intern, unaware of the meaning of that symbol.

The. End.

[quote] I can't believe anyone could be that stupid.

Sadly, most younger people under 30 do not really comprehend the scope of the Holocaust. And while we had two entire weeks dedicated to the Holocaust when I was in HS - including two days of watching the grisliest documentaries imaginable - I doubt many HS districts today spend more than a day on a chapter in a book.

And most textbooks made today are woefully inadequate.

In 500 years, Holocaust Remembrance Day will be as much a religious holiday as Passover.

In 500 years, there will have been bigger atrocities than that, r49. You think hate is just going to take few centuries off?

r45 bumps a thread from 2015 to push his Trumper agenda. F&F

Why is this story being bumped up from FIVE years ago?

Flames and Freaks.

It's r45 who bumped this up five years later, just to stir up the shit. Please F&F him.

r33 is an anti-Semite.

Shun him gals!

r54, that post is from 5 years ago. Fuck off.