[R] Anti-Semitic trolling in emoji court thread

[Thermodolia]

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[Ethel mermania]

Beat me to it

quote="Union of Despotistan";p="31805825"]This is the jewest thing I've read in a while..[/quote]

[Frisbeeteria]

It's in Tel Aviv. It's in Hebrew. I'll grant you "jewest" is a poor choice of phrasing, but I'm not seeing anti-Semetic trolling.

[Ethel mermania]

So that was a non religious based compliment and not a racial insult?

Second opinion please.

[Old Tyrannia]

My initial feeling was to agree with Fris that whilst ill-advised, the post could reasonably be interpreted as a well-intentioned joke. However, having looked at the poster's history it would appear that they have something of a prior history of anti-Semitic trolling, in light of which I feel the post reported was almost certainly malicious in intent. Based on this, I have overruled Fris and given a three-day ban.

[Ethel mermania]

Thank you.

But I would like to point out that that kind of statement is as much as an slur as. ((())), or "I jewed the price down", when talking about playing hard ball in a pricing negotiation. Even if we were to accept that it was a joke, it is a joke in an anti-semetic context.