Bar pulls ‘bargain’ Facebook post
An Auckland bar’s Facebook post which advertised a meal deal and accompanied it with the photo of an Orthodox Jew saying “now that’s . . . a bargain” has been removed.
The post went up on De Post Belgian Beer Cafe’s Facebook page on Saturday morning.
Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman told the Herald it reinforced racial stereotypes, which the council would like people to think about before they post.
“It’s not grossly offensive . . . We would prefer it wasn’t there, but we are not going to jump up and down about it.”
Goodman admitted the other posts the council came across referring to Orthodox Jews were more offensive than the Mt Eden bar’s post.
But he was pleased to hear De Post Belgian had reacted so promptly to concerns and had removed the post yesterday.
The post was emailed in by a Herald reader who also found it offensive. The image was from online Meme website Memegenerator.net.
De Post director Mike Jennings apologised for the post and send there was no intention to offend anyone because De Post was a multicultural business. The post was removed as soon as management was made aware of it.
“An inexperienced person has made that post, it has been caught up with quickly and it has been dealt with quickly.”
He said De Post would now work with its team to make it more aware of every person in the community and how things might be perceived.