On Thursday I went to a local grocery store, it's a chain in 3 states. I was almost done shopping when I heard a few employees hanging out near a register saying something about, "it was made in Israel, I was disappointed, disgusted."
I was upset because don't do that shit on the clock in front of customers and also thanks for the anti Israel hate. I reported it to the team lead who seemed a bit caught off guard and didn't say anything but was kind.
I was still upset. I emailed corporate with a factual account of what happened. I received a call today from a manager.
Her immediate response didn't address my complaint. She said that she knew the employees and had talked to them. She said that she thought they were sad because they had seen a new story in the break room that day about all the dead children and that their feelings were hurt. She maintained that for a few minutes before I acknowledged that dead children suck obviously and could we get back to my complaint?
At that point I didn't feel right about the call and maintained the comments in question were hurtful, hateful, and inappropriate. She repeated that she was sorry multiple times and nothing else. I didn't expect her to move mountains but I did expect a corporation to take more accountability. Moreover the most important part, and the most disturbing part, was her saying that the dead children had made her employees sad and had hurt their feelings which was why they acted that way.
It felt like it's justification to hate on Israel in a retail setting and in front of the general public because,"the dead children." And it's also offensive because it assumes that people who do support and understand Israel don't give a crap about dead children.
My concern is if I am a Karen jew? Should I continue to pursue this and run this up the flagpole. Am I making something out of nothing? I can't tell anymore and I would appreciate any and all comments and perspectives.
It's reddit so you already know what the responses are gonna look like
Yeah. I imagine non-jews are going to have a hard time relating
You heard it here first, the tiktok ban is hate speech
Israeli officials would never speak ill of the dead palestinian children 
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Lmao no? No one would give a shit.
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They would, although there are other countries that you're allowed to shit on by brainrotted shitlibs that are considered fair game for aggressive BDS campaigns. Namely Russia and the USA.
It goes back to "punching up". Current year ideology says that middle-class college kids in America are allowed to "punch up" against "Zionists" in various fashions - social, economic, even physical.
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It all comes down go the fact jews have whiter skin and shitlibs have been trained lighter = punching up = safe
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You could say the same about France, the UK, Germany, really any European country, most of Asia, Australia, Sexpat East Asia (SEA), most of the Middle East sans Palestine (obviously) and the chud parts of South America and Africa easily. Aside from a few protected "hard done" by countries no sweat. And even Palestine would only have half the population malding at you as it's part of the current thing.
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No, I'm pretty sure if someone made random comments around not wanting to sell French shit it would not have been excused in the fashion of "well surely if you look at the news you'll understand" that was happening here. Like it's not the worst offense imaginable but clearly there's a lot of sympathy for BDS sentiments aimed at Israel that would not extend to the countries you listed, and expressing these sentiments would be seen as just weird and unprofessional.
But with Israel (and the US and Russia), you can't just expect people not to express their heartfelt concerns at work! We're very sorry they made you upset though!
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It probably would have been. They certainly wouldn't have been fired and at worst it'd have to be passed off as a "safe edgy" joke. Unprofessional is what it would be as you said but certainly nothing anyone would ever call up the chain for or even give her a phone call to explain for.
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You are absolutely fricking bonkers if you think that someone not liking French products would get piled on for being a racist. I mean to the point where it's impossible to have a conversation with you because you're on another planet.
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Didn't say "piled on". Most people would just tell you you're weird and to knock it off.
Hating Israel though? heckin' cute and valid.
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Actual delusion.
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The average redditor's memory-span only goes back 15 months.
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