NYT publishes crossword puzzle resembling swastika... on the first day of Hanukkah.

What were they thinking. On Hanukkah posting a symbol used by antisemitic. This can't be an accident, right?

ground.news...

I have to believe they weren't, but this is the paper that refused to report on it until it could not be ignored and treated other things in like fashion like the Ukrainian famine because communism was awesome!

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

There are no accidents or coincidences in clown world.

Racism seems to be their weapon of choice when it comes to keeping us divided and fighting with one another while they slowly shorten all of our leashes.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

The party of contradictions and faux virtue again shows their true colors.

This has to be an Onion or something...

a reply to: Jeremiah33three



and the response?

Yes, hi. It's NOT a swastika. Honest to God. No one sits down to make a crossword puzzle and says, "Hey! You know what would look cool?"

eta:
And yet it looks like ......a swastika. DERP.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

So what? The swastika was a symbol long before the Nazis adopted it. I doubt it was intentional.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

clearly INTENTIONAL.

Way too uniform to be an accident

a reply to: Creep Thumper

The symbol you are on about goes in the other direction from a swastika.
Liberals are the nazis of the 21st century.

a reply to: Creep Thumper

So what? The swastika was a symbol long before the Nazis adopted it. I doubt it was intentional.

I love how if it's one specific political group people jump through hurtles to defend their actions up to including denying the shape of a Nazi swastika with the attempt to claim it's the non-angled Indian version.

It's past infuriating, it's hilarious at this point.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

Didn't the Daily Telegraph crossword contain some of the codewords for the D-Day invasion, fairly soon before the actual landing?

IIRC didn't they play it off as just a coincidence then as well? or was it

en.wikipedia.org...

In the months before D-Day the solution words 'Gold' and 'Sword' (codenames for the two D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D-Day beach assigned to Canada) appeared in The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions, but they are common words in crosswords, and were treated as coincidences. The run of D-Day codewords as The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions continued:

2 May 1944: 'Utah' (17 across, clued as "One of the U.S."): code name for the D-Day beach assigned to the US 4th Infantry Division (Utah Beach). This would have been treated as another coincidence.
22 May 1944: 'Omaha' (3 down, clued as "Red Indian on the Missouri"): code name for the D-Day beach to be taken by the US 1st Infantry Division (Omaha Beach).
27 May 1944: 'Overlord' (11 across, clued as "[common]... but some bigwig like this has stolen some of it at times.", code name for the whole D-Day operation: Operation Overlord)
30 May 1944: 'Mulberry' (11 across, clued as "This bush is a centre of nursery revolutions.", Mulberry harbour)
1 June 1944: 'Neptune' (15 down, clued as "Britannia and he hold to the same thing.", codeword for the naval phase: Operation Neptune).
Investigation
MI5 became involved and arrested Dawe and a senior colleague, crossword compiler Melville Jones. Both were interrogated intensively, but it was decided that they were innocent, although Dawe nearly lost his job as a headmaster. Afterwards, Dawe asked at least one of the boys (Ronald French) where he had got these codewords from, and he was alarmed at the contents of the boy's notebook. He gave him a severe reprimand about secrecy and national security during wartime, ordered the notebook to be burnt, and ordered the boy to swear secrecy on the Bible. It was told publicly that the leakage of codenames was coincidence. Dawe kept his interrogation secret until he described it in a BBC interview in 1958.

Aftermath
In 1984, the approach of the 40th anniversary of D-Day reminded people of the crossword incident, causing a check for any codewords related to the 1982 Falklands War in The Daily Telegraph crosswords set around the time of that war; none were found.[2] That induced Ronald French, then a property manager in Wolverhampton, to come forward to say that in 1944, when he was a 14-year-old at the Strand School, he inserted D-Day codenames into crosswords. He believed that hundreds of children must have known what he knew.[3][4]

A fictionalised version of the story appeared in The Mountain and the Molehill in series 1 of the BBC One Screen One anthology series, first broadcast on 15 October 1989. Written by David Reid and directed by Moira Armstrong, it starred Michael Gough as Mr Maggs, a school headmaster based on Dawe. Another fictionalised version appeared in the Norwegian children`s book Kodeord Overlord (Codeword Overlord) about headmaster Cross, based on Dawe. Written by Tor Arve Røssland and published by Vigmostad&Bjørke publishing house in 2019.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

I'm wondering if this was some sort of AI blunder and snuck through the cracks at the QA part.
If it's tied to the web then AI would pull all sorts of data based on the date, holidays, historical events, etc. And just so happened to pull out that pattern because it's ties to Jewish history, the AI wouldn't know its significance good or bad...

Just a thought.

originally posted by: Creep Thumper
a reply to: Jeremiah33three

So what? The swastika was a symbol long before the Nazis adopted it. I doubt it was intentional.

If it wasn't intentional, then it was one hell of a coincidence. And the timing of the coincidence is even more of an amazing coincidence. At some point, you have to look at this from a "reality" perspective. Or, maybe you are right.

a reply to: glen200376

Except I'm not a liberal.

This thing had to go through several levels of scrutiny. Why didn't one of them stop it? Is it a conspiracy?

BTW, crosswords are generated by computer. It's likely a hiccup connected to history rather than an intentional mishap.

a reply to: Jeremiah33three

The NYTs is run by evil Nazi bastards...just like the Leftists they cater to.

The odds of this being accidental or coincidental are astronomical.

Another pathetic attempt at window dressing 👁️

a reply to: glen200376

"Progressive" Liberals

a reply to: Creep Thumper

BTW, crosswords are generated by computer. 

They aren't.

Crossword setters are paid to set the crosswords.

Perhaps they are computer generated in dedicated crossword books but newspapers hire setters to make their crosswords unique.

It's been that way since the concept of a crossword was even imagined.

Famous crossword setters.

originally posted by: Creep Thumper
a reply to: glen200376

Except I'm not a liberal.

This thing had to go through several levels of scrutiny. Why didn't one of them stop it? Is it a conspiracy?

BTW, crosswords are generated by computer. It's likely a hiccup connected to history rather than an intentional mishap.

Exactly. It must have gone through several approvals, and even though we can all look at it at a glance and say, "wow, that sure looks like a swastika", none of them had that epiphany. Doesn't that seem a little odd?

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes
a reply to: Creep Thumper

BTW, crosswords are generated by computer. 

They aren't.

Crossword setters are paid to set the crosswords.

Perhaps they are computer generated in dedicated crossword books but newspapers hire setters to make their crosswords unique.

It's been that way since the concept of a crossword was even imagined.

Famous crossword setters.

You're stuck in the 20th century. They're set based on computer-generated grids.