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Why does IKEA need to apologize for sending out a female-free catalogue to Israeli Hareidi communities?
Wasn’t it culturally-sensitive and appropriate for Israel’s IKEA to make a special version to advertise to Hareidi Jews?
Imho, it was smart and considerate marketing.
Exactly correct. It is the anti-semites angrily attacking Ikea. These anti-semites happen to mostly be of Jewish lineage. Some might even sport a kippa. They think it’s okay to hate Jews who practice Judaism too much, as that’s against their wishes for a 21st century world. They feel as long as their hatred is “only” against certain Jews, it is okay.
If they had done this catalog for muslims they would not be apologizing.
The left has no actual morals. There is no foundation on which they rely. They do as it suits them in any particular situation. When going to Iran, feminists will wear a hijab – no problem. “It’s not degrading to women, it’s cultural sensitivity”.
When it comes to Jewish men being uncomfortable sitting next to women on an airplane, those men are intolerant, and all of the “..ist” words they can conjure up.
When it comes to this catalog, they need to pander to their base, feminists back in Sweden – or the Erev Rav Israeli press rabble-rousers to show that this was a mistake and intolerance, etc… even though they would hardly have a chance in many communities if their catalog contained pictures of women.
They have absolutely no standards. Their women are being attacked and violated in Sweden and they hide the facts from the people, censor online reports, force police to hide statistics by putting code 291 instead of the fact that the perpetrators were migrants, blur and whiten faces of suspects, disallow actual descriptions of the perpetrators (lest one discover they were a migrant) and prosecute anyone who dares speak the truth.
Feminism – shouldn’t that be about protecting women and giving them rights, apparently not – when they allow their women to be fodder for migrants to abuse and violate in the streets. Equality – handing out fake community service sentences to migrants for heinous crimes, because it’s “their culture” – again apparently there is no equality. Liberalism is a definitely a mental disorder.
We are lucky to have a Torah that gives us the proper foundation and guidance in life. I have new-found understanding and depth when saying “Shelo asani goy”.
Why are there people in the catalog? Does IKEA sell people?
Also, fun fact – I have those bookcases that are pictured on the front of the catalog
I think it’s offensive to women that they apologized. The problem is that (like most people in the world who aren’t Frum Jews, and even some Frum Jews), they have no understanding of what tznius is about. Therefore, they probably thought it was demeaning to women that there were no pictures of women, and that is probably why they felt a need to apologize.
The problem is that they are wrong -tznius is not demeaning to women. It’s a lack of tznius that is demeaning to women.
I can see why someone who did not have a Torah chinuch might not understand that when it comes to certain tznius issues, but when it comes to advertising, it should be very obvious to anyone.
As you pointed out,LB, the feminists should be up in arms over this.
LB – if someone does something against Jews, you should be judgmental, at least about their actions.
In general, there is a big difference between judging someone’s actions and judging the person.
My point about their comment being anti-women was as follows: if it really were demeaning to women to exclude them from ads (as they apparently feel), then they would be right for apologizing even though they did so because it’s offensive to Chareidim to have pictures of women.
If a certain religious group believes in demeaning a certain type of person, it doesn’t make it okay for others to do so in order to avoid offending them (and to get their business).
So based on their understanding of the issue, they are in the right. The problem is that their understanding of the issue is all wrong. That is what I was speaking about. I understand why they don’t understand the issue, but the fact is that their actions are still wrong.
Anytime I criticize someone, it is always their actions I am criticizing. I have no means of judging the person. My assumption is always that the person is a product of a combination of nature, nurture, and society. It is impossible for a human being to ever judge another human being – only Hashem can do that – we can only judge their actions.
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