Antisemitism and the NYT crossword

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s an unfortunate accident and they should address it and apologize for the accidental offense. (There’s is actually a whole thing about accidentally creating a swastika pattern in quilts and I can imagine the crossword layout presents similar issues. Nevertheless, they shouldn’t ignore it!)

They are ignoring it, and other media outlets are ignoring it. Why is that?

Because we are all tired of the BS and gaslighting! No news outlet is more sympathetic to the Jewish community than the NyT. And NO ONE fills out a crossword that way, no one! This is just stupid and hysterical.
And you know what?? Try giving a cramp about the Palestinians living under apartheid and being subjected to atrocities by the Jewish community before you keep panhandling for sympathy. Show up for the Palestinians!
If you are for YOURSELVES ALONE WHO ARE YOU right???

You're right. It would be so much better for us to be entirely dependent on you for our security. We can trust you 100 percent with our families' lives. Because that always worked out so well before and you clearly show yourself to be an unbiased student of history.

Now you want us to pay for your security as well as all the other money we throw at Israel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s an unfortunate accident and they should address it and apologize for the accidental offense. (There’s is actually a whole thing about accidentally creating a swastika pattern in quilts and I can imagine the crossword layout presents similar issues. Nevertheless, they shouldn’t ignore it!)

They are ignoring it, and other media outlets are ignoring it. Why is that?

Because we are all tired of the BS and gaslighting! No news outlet is more sympathetic to the Jewish community than the NyT. And NO ONE fills out a crossword that way, no one! This is just stupid and hysterical.
And you know what?? Try giving a cramp about the Palestinians living under apartheid and being subjected to atrocities by the Jewish community before you keep panhandling for sympathy. Show up for the Palestinians!
If you are for YOURSELVES ALONE WHO ARE YOU right???

So, just to sum up - if I understand you right, you are an antisemite, and that's why you think that others' antisemitism is also fine. Because Jews are bad, and have it coming.

Except you don't see yourself as antisemitic, despite calling on a handful of antisemitic tropes in your post, so it's also just Jews being weirdos again and for OURSELVES ALONE for noticing your troubling post, or something (what's with your all caps?).

Sympathy for what the Israelis have done to the Palestinians is not anti-Semitic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s an unfortunate accident and they should address it and apologize for the accidental offense. (There’s is actually a whole thing about accidentally creating a swastika pattern in quilts and I can imagine the crossword layout presents similar issues. Nevertheless, they shouldn’t ignore it!)

They are ignoring it, and other media outlets are ignoring it. Why is that?

Because we are all tired of the BS and gaslighting! No news outlet is more sympathetic to the Jewish community than the NyT. And NO ONE fills out a crossword that way, no one! This is just stupid and hysterical.
And you know what?? Try giving a cramp about the Palestinians living under apartheid and being subjected to atrocities by the Jewish community before you keep panhandling for sympathy. Show up for the Palestinians!
If you are for YOURSELVES ALONE WHO ARE YOU right???

So, just to sum up - if I understand you right, you are an antisemite, and that's why you think that others' antisemitism is also fine. Because Jews are bad, and have it coming.

Except you don't see yourself as antisemitic, despite calling on a handful of antisemitic tropes in your post, so it's also just Jews being weirdos again and for OURSELVES ALONE for noticing your troubling post, or something (what's with your all caps?).

Bringing up the human rights of Palestinians doesn’t make you an anti semite. People are tired of you all trotting this out. We can acknowledge two things at the same time- can one of them be that you panhandle for sympathy and ring alarm bells for your safety while you actually lie to vilify an entire country on land you stole and gaslight about the danger in which you place the Palestinians???

"You all!"

Also guess what, you turd - American Jews are not Israel! Did you know that? We are Americans! I LOATHE the right wing Israeli government. Did you know that? Or did you think "you all" somehow represent Israel, are loyal to Israel, and are able to influence how that country treats Palestinians. Because guess what - we don't, we aren't, and we can't! But antisemites think otherwise.

Why castigate a poster by saying "American Jews are not Israel" and then implying that you represent all American Jews and how they feel about the right wing Israeli government. Recognize that the treatment of Palestinians by the Israelis is one reason for anti-Semitism in the United States and a good deal of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

NP. I’ve been one of the people here saying the shape was unintentional, but damn…you can f**k right off with this shit.

[Anonymous]

The Nazis ruined everything by appropriating a symmetric Indian/African/Eurasion geometric symbol that can be so inadvertently replicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

NP. I’ve been one of the people here saying the shape was unintentional, but damn…you can f**k right off with this shit.

DP. That was a Jew posting. As a non-Jew, I had no clue about a third candle, which is my ignorance for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

DP. You’re exhausting, that’s probably why nobody is interested in doing research for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

Omg you have GOT to be kidding me!!!! You’re right!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

And on Thanksgiving it was “Feast.” Whatever is your point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

Can someone explain the third candle thing to me? I get it’s connected to the third reich or something?
Omg you have GOT to be kidding me!!!! You’re right!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?[/quote

And on Thanksgiving it was “Feast.” Whatever is your point?

They mean the editorial sticky fingerprints of the NYT are all over this, it’s intentional and gross!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NYT crosswords require a symmetrical pattern. If there is a five-letter horizontal word in the upper right corner, there has to be a five-letter horizontal word in the lower left corner. This kind of whirlpool pattern is pretty common, and as others have said, it was an extra-large Sunday puzzle, so any “shapes” would be more defined. I see a flower when I look at those, and I was more peeved about the inclusion of non-words like “Halloweekend” than whatever shapes pop up if I were to take a marker and color in so,e of the boxes.

So still no examples of this common puzzle shape to post?

After you light the third candle, Google "common crossword puzzle shapes" and see what you can find.

So, no examples still. It's not up to me to prove your assertion.

BTW, wordle was "third" today. Dismissed as coincidence?

Can someone explain the third candle thing to me? I get it’s connected to the third reich or something?
Omg you have GOT to be kidding me!!!! You’re right!!!

FFS. It’s the 3rd night of Hanukkah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s an unfortunate accident and they should address it and apologize for the accidental offense. (There’s is actually a whole thing about accidentally creating a swastika pattern in quilts and I can imagine the crossword layout presents similar issues. Nevertheless, they shouldn’t ignore it!)

They are ignoring it, and other media outlets are ignoring it. Why is that?

Because … it’s not newsworthy

I thought swastikas were bad. Apparently we are cool with them now.

58 - Boxcars

60 - Brandenburg Gate, the entrance to the Reichstag

88 - Group led by Darth Sideous ( the Emperor in Star Wars) — the cross word is too low resolution to see if this fits, but my first answer would be “stormtroopers”.

7 down is a reference to Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. Their wall concerts were openly antisemitic, with the fascists of the “wall” being adorned with Stars of David and a Hitleresque fascist leader — with Roger Waters being a open antisemite and hater of Israel.

Lots of various references to Islam throughout.

Not a chance any of this was accidental.

The Reichstag no longer exists. It’s the Bundestag, which is just the German Parliament. You’re either a troll or someone who is so deeply ignorant that you’re undermining support for fighting actual antisemitism by acting as though the Brandenburg Gate and the German Parliament are antisemitic.