Do we need to CHILL

Gold Member Joined: May 27 2010 Posts: 2142

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/si.....04409.html

I just saw this story when I went to Yahoo to check my email..

This Vodka put a huge billboard in Manhattan with a large slogan "x-mas Quality, Chanuka Prices"

There was a huge uproar and the billboard was destroyed. Is it just me or is everyone way too hyper-sensitive..

Posted: Thu, Nov 24 2011, 1:21 am Post subject: re: Do we need to CHILL

To me it was offensive, and dumb. But they seem to favor those kinds of ads.
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Gold Member Joined: May 09 2010 Posts: 2125

I do think it was offensive. I wouldn't have had a total cow, but it was definitely more offensive than funny.
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I'm usually the first (or at least second!) to complain about political correctness run amok, but I did find the billboard offensive. It seems kind of clueless in this day and age!

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 11 2010 Posts: 3086

Apparently, their last ad was "Hamptons Quality, Newark Pricing" so this one couldn't be anything other than offensive.

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It's saying, "Good enough for Christians, cheap enough for Jews." I think that's offensive.

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Posted: Thu, Nov 24 2011, 9:18 pm Post subject: re: Do we need to CHILL

Such bad ads can only help project a low quality image.

Posted: Thu, Nov 24 2011, 10:40 pm Post subject: Re: re: Do we need to CHILL

Silver Member Joined: Jul 07 2009 Posts: 932

Totally offended and really happy I did not drive by that sign!
So glad it was taken down!
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http://www.aish.com/ci/ss/Anti-Semetic_Vodka_Ads.html

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That add promotes negative stereotypes as well as being entirely offensive.

That said, I wonder if they knew full well what they were doing, figured they would get a ton of free publicity and so went ahead anyways.

Posted: Thu, Dec 01 2011, 4:59 am Post subject: re: Do we need to CHILL

absolutely (pun intended..I.e. absolut vodka) that billboard should have gone down.

I've heard catty comments about Jews and money until I could throw up. Rather shamelessly among the (ironically) moneyed upper classes when I lived in England, and now I see its found its way into American advertisements.

Yes, it was disgusting.
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I find it very interesting that there were 10,878 replies to the article.

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This has nothing to do with defaming Chanuka and everything to do with the stereotype of Jews being cheap (as in the verb, to jew). Ugly. I'll chill about a lot but I don't like this.
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