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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

I used to make Xmas cookies and I would bring some to the office.  I made stars and trees usually.  The star cookie cutter I had was a 6 pointed star.  I liked it b/c it was a little different than the usual 5 point star.  Anyway, I sprinkled the trees with green sprinkles and the stars with yellow sprinkles b/c stars have yellow light -- right?.  My closest friends at the office were all Jewish.  I never thought that the yellow sprinkles on the 6 point stars might have a negative connection to the Holocaust, but I think someone (might not have been someone at work) told me that it was a bad idea and offensive.

Would you be offended by Christmas cookies that are 6 point stars with yellow sprinkles on white frosting?  Am I so clueless that I'm anti-semetic by accident?[/quote]

http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/yellowstar.htm[/quote]

Yes, PP I AM aware of the yellow star of David being used during WWII to identify the Jews.  I was aware of that at the time I made the cookies.  I just never connected making Christmas cookies in the shape of a star with the Holocaust b/c I don't think about the Holocaust much.  I just looked at it as a star cookie and I sprinkled it yellow b/c stars are yellow.  My question is not whether yellow six-pointed stars are connected to the Holocaust, but whether OP (or others) would have made that connection upon seeing a plate of cookies -- some of which were trees sprinkled in green -- and whether OP (or others) would take offense at seeing said cookies.[/quote]

I would not have associated it with the Holocaust.  The context was a holiday celebration and many people color stars yellow because they give off light.  It's not as if you wrote JUDE on it.  If someone was sensitive to it, they were overreacting and I would chalk it up to someone being overly sensitive.[/quote]

Sorry.   Not the OP but Jewish.[/quote]

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