"Jew, Party Of Two! Your Table's Ready!"Drudge links to an
AP report with a dateline of Allenhurst, NJ. Here's the gist:
After eating at a Jersey shore restaurant, Elliott Stein and his girlfriend were handed a bill that said "Jew Couple" near the bottom, as a table identifier used by the waitstaff. The slur also turned up on Stein's credit card statement weeks later.Mr. Stein, understandably, was irked.
The waitress responsible for that moniker designation is identified only as "Karina" and, not surprisingly, no longer works at the restaurant. (There's no indication if Karina told the couple that the day's special was the Gaza Strip with a baked potato.)
Even more appalling than the fact that people as stupid as Karina walk among us is this tidbit:
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Wednesday it is investigating the July incident at Parkhill's Waterfront Grill through its Division on Civil Rights.Um -- what law was broken here? The couple wasn't refused service. Nor were they threatened with harm. What happened is that a simpleton server wrote two words on their bill which -- with good reason -- offended the customers. How can that possibly be in the same league with lynchings, firebombings, violent threats, workplace discrimination and other civil rights violations?
It would be one thing if someone spraypainted "JEW COUPLE" or any other words on Mr. Stein's house. Property damage, obviously, is against the law. In this case, however, the words were written on a bill to identify the table at which the customers were seated. Sure, the server's decision to write those words was moronic and offensive; but it wasn't illegal.
The restaurant management apparently fired the server responsible and that should be the end of it. But butt-in-ski bureaucrats in the New Jersey Attorney General's office see it otherwise. To them, merely being offensive is a crime.
