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Pukey Pug Hugger or Kooky Jew Boo-er?
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Commentors who blow it off and say it couldn't have happened also make me nervous. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the U.S. and in Europe. Denying it and looking the other way is no way to react.
Finally, the commentor who said that he was alright with the alleged anti-Semitic comments because of how Hassidic Jews treat women needs to take a step back. Many Middle-Eastern cultures treat women as second class citizens, but that does not make it alright to trot out ethnic and religious epithets!
07/02/09
What's disturbing to me is people like you who are more disturbed by hateful comments against a Jewish person than hateful comments and gendered violence against a woman, which even the Post admits came before the supposed anti-Semitic remarks.
07/02/09
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. If you trust the Post on the statements made by the police officer, well, I don't have to spell it out for you, do I?
07/01/09
Remember when New Yorkers were attractive?
*le sigh.*
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Bonus: She has trained her dog to throw up when she walks him through Boro Park.
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For her sake, I hope there's good money in pug rescue.
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HuffPo
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So, either the Post reporter(s) made up a source, the source gave them a false name or a nickname, or (unlikely) there just aren't any records of this person anywhere. Most often, Nexis will pick up common nicknames, but it's possible that her real name, if she in fact exists, is something very different from Viane, and she just never does anything with "Viane" except talk to Post reporters.
Also, two dudes named "Reuvan" worked together on that Post story, which isn't sinister, but is odd.
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And now I'm thinking, did he say "If you act like a lady, I'll treat you like a lady"? Which is something I've heard before, from cops even, and which routinely earns the speaker a stink-eye, but which is relatively different from the misogynistic take above.
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I'll bet "lady" was either what he meant or she meant.
07/01/09
On the other hand, my parents often said to me "if you can't act like a lady, then you can't sit at the grown-ups table". So... more a "mind your manners and you'll be treated well" than a weird, thuggish broadside against 50% of humanity.
Sadly, I find that cops often shout things that I've heard parents shouting at kids. The world is strange.
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Damn you, sir, you beat me to the punch.
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I would propose that anyone who treats a living thing as an accessory is not even human.
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