KFC's Krystallnacht Celebration
"Memorial day for the Reich pogrom night.""Treat yourself to more tender cheese on your crispy chicken.""Now at KFCheese!"“Commemorate Kristallnacht – treat yourself to more soft cheese and crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!”"[The notification was an] unacceptable message and for this we sincerely apologize.""We use a semi-automated content creation process linked to calendars that include national observances.""In this instance, our internal review process was not properly followed, resulting in a non-approved notification being shared."Kentucky Fried Chicken Germany
The
history of Jewish persecution is endless, through the past to the near
present. The growing popularity of targeting Jews and Israel for racist
commentary has kept the Jewish community on notice that their fondest
expectations that the world community would some day tire of bludgeoning
Jews, all things Jewish, and Israel along with everything reputed by
Jew-haters to be attributable to the dark aspects of Jewish character
has faltered on the lethal spike of a renewal of the pathology of
antisemitism.
Celebrities
have now realized they can excite their audiences with antisemitic
sneers and swipes accusing Jews of being ... well ... Jewish, and elicit
guffaws and growing popularity among their admirers. As publicity goes
it is effective and it is cheap. From film stars to rapsters, sport
figures to politicians the opportunities present themselves to spout
racist, derogatory slanders against Israel under the pretense
accusations of 'apartheid' and oppression against the Palestinians are
politically sanctioned but those smearing Israel are not antisemetic.
That
Israel has a proxy-use for Jew-haters is a given; a friable screen to
protest innocence of racism. But that a world-wide network of corporate
interests would be so obligingly oblivious to what it is they are urging
their customers to celebrate by indulging their appetite to celebrate
what historians refer to as the beginning salvo of what would soon
become better known as the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust
strikes a new low in the free-enterprise system.
A menu of a drive-in
counter of a branch of the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
After severe setbacks in the Corona pandemic, Germany’s fast food
industry wants to expand its drive-in car counters to keep customers in
line. Rolf Vennenbernd | Picture Alliance | Getty Images |
It
is telling that this occurred in Germany. The backlash to a global
corporation's vapidly clumsy effort at publicity and enhanced sales
opportunity came directly from Jewish sources; the perpetrators of the
Third Reich's elaborate scheme to obliterate the Jewish presence
throughout Europe appears not to have been the least bit discomfiting in
the KFC public relations appeal to the sensuous image of food linked to
hateful savagery against Jewish existence.
Krystallnacht,
the night of 'shattered glass' was a wide-ranging event orchestrated by
Nazi Germany that swept Germany and Austria. Germany's Jew-haters came
out in numbers to march through the streets shouting imprecations and
threats against the Jewish residents in a pograom that murdered an
estimated 91 Jews, rounded up hundreds more to be sent to concentration
and slave-labour camps where they perished. The mobs marauding through
the streets of towns and cities torched over 1,400 synagogues, and
vandalized 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses.
Germany
went on to prove that the night of November 10 to 11 of 1938 was not a
one-off event to assure Europe's Jews that they were not forgotten. A
world war would be fought, Europe occupied by the Axis supporting
Germany in its bid for world supremacy under fascism, but there was
considerable effort, dedicated military labour and focus along with
resources such as rail services, campsites, investment in chemicals and
furnaces to exterminate six million Jewish children, women and men. And
KFC felt that was something to celebrate.
Labels: Antisemitism, Free Enterprise System, Jewish Persecution, Kentucky Fried Chicken Krystallnacht, Nazi Germany, WWII
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