French design agency advertises job for someone who is "if possible not Jewish"

Via BBC

The BBC posted this screencap of a Graphic-Jobs.com job ad from a French design agency that included the line "Si possible pas juif(ve)" ("If possible not Jewish").

Yeah. It was soon removed.

NSL Studio says it must have been hacked and that the company "distances itself totally from all racist or anti-Semitic acts or statements".  Graphic-Jobs.com distanced itself, stating "we strongly condemn the nature of the content published by the agency NSL Studio."

 The damage is done, however. Racial discrimination is illegal in France, and SOS Racisme is apparently taking legal action.

Joke, troll or genuine hate, it's a sad comment in a country already rife with religious and ethnic violence.

Islamophobic ad featuring Hitler says "stop racism"

Oh, that's rich.

This is just the latest PR stunt by "The American Freedom Defense Initiative" a rabidly anti-Islam group that insists every single Muslim is a radical bent on genocide.

This ad, according to the Washington Post, features Adolf Hitler talking to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem who supported the Holocaust.

AFDI claim their ads are a response to "the vicious Jew-hating ads … unleashed on Washington DC Metro buses last month.” by American Muslims for Palestine:

The AMP ad, reminding Americans that some of their tax money goes to Israeli aid, it certainly politically charged. But it just doesn't seem quite as over-the-top as the response.

Perhaps all sides of religious conflicts should make an agreement not to judge each other by the acts of their worst zealots, or the bloodthirsty and weird writings of their ancestors. We can debate US foreign policy until we're red, white, and blue in the face, but the only sure way to lose the argument is to succumb to Godwin's Law.

Family Guy demands that "Brentwood Jews" give show an Emmy #FdAdFriday

According to Hollywood Reporter, this direct mailer went out to Emmy voters. While it is in character for the 21st Century animated version of Archie Bunker, reactions were mixed.

"Wow," responds one Brentwood TV producer, "if Family Guy was that funny on a regular basis, it might get nominated." 

Another producer, who lives nearby in Pacific Palisades, has her own review. "It's so heavy-handed," she says, "it's light on funny."

Yet another adds: "While I think Family Guy is a genuinely funny show, we all -- including this 'Brentwood Jew' -- need to think twice about this kind of humor. Stereotyping any particular ethnic group is just not cool and can lead others (with the wrong intentions) to feel a certain license to take shots. Surely Seth [MacFarlane] has better stuff than this."

It's one of those tricky issues, isn't it? Family Guy is supposedly "making fun of that kind of thing" with its outrageously offensive gags. And yet the concern that it gives licence to less... umm... artistic(?) racism is also valid.

And would it make a difference if MacFarlane were Jewish, rather than possessing the ultra-WASPy pedigree of "Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh ancestry, partly by way of Canada, and his ancestors include William Brewster, who travelled to America on the Mayflower"?

F'd Ad Fridays: Appalling Holocaust-themed fitness ad

I first saw this Facebook ad on Copyranter, but The Stir had a full version.

Using the Holocaust to sell gym memberships in Dubai is some repugnant shit. So I guess it would be superficial of me to point out that it they couldn't even be bothered to design it, as the "ad" was apparently laid out on Demotivator's DIY dynamic generator.

They have since apologized on Facebook:

A Jewish joke? Really?

And it's in Manhattan, too.

This is part of an ongoing campaign to sell cheap vodka by insulting everyone.

But unlike sex workers, Jewish people are not likely to take it lying down. Nor should anyone else.

Update: It's going down.

F'd Ad Fridays: Sexy teenage holocaust victim Halloween costume

I don't think you can sink much lower than this "Anne Skank"costume:

Lisa Wade writes in Sociological Images, "The Halloween revelers who made the choice to sexualize and laugh at this 15-year-old victim of the holocaust are graduate students in the Creative Writing program at Florida State University."