Sent to us over the weekend by someone claiming to go by the name of “Jerry Reuben,” these posters can only mean one thing: Somebody’s pissed off about BierGarten. Has anybody seen these in the wild yet? Another one after the jump.
Previously: Phoodie Exclusive: The Who And The What Of Stephen Starr’s Fishtown Bier Garten
racism accusations? last two times i set foot in a starr restaurant, it was a black friend who forced those overly-sweetened drinks and overpriced food into my otherwise happy daily life.
am i missing something? is there a backstory of ‘cism with starr and i’m just ignorant?
Nazi comparisons are kinda not cool as well. It’s possible to criticize the dude without going straight to Hitler, right?
This is so retarded.
the german one i got (german beer garden and all), though I didn’t love it. I did find it amusing they depicted Fishtown as Poland, at least.
I’m guessing someone’s trying to build a book of “street work” in order to get a creative gig with the Carpenters Union protest organizers. And hey, that movement could use some spicing up on the sensationalist flier front.
If he was really ballsy, this agent provocateur would be spelling out the french triangle that produces the nefarious Stephen/Ringo connection.
Poor taste.
While I do not disagree with anyone’s right to protest nor the media’s right to cover such protests, both of these posters if not profoundly racist are deeply offensive.
In this situation it may border on complicity on Phoodie’s part to public such offensive things without a disclaimer that “these posters do not reflect the feelings and opinions of the website” because you just broadcast hate a whole lot further than it could have gotten by putting in on what aspires to be a food website that intends to continue to be taken seriously.
I am not sure any respectable journalistic entity would cover a KKK or anti-Jewish rally and simply publish all the posters the people are holding. They may publish pictures of the people holding said posters which brings us to the point that whomever published these posters don’t even have the balls to stand behind it. Phoodie should not help to propagate the the opinions of spineless racists veiled as an economic or social threat to city.
It isn’t just bad for Stephen Starr, it is so bad for the city to see things like this especially in so called kumbayah Nolibs and fishtown.
The first thing I thought of when I saw both of these posters was the poster of Barack Obama with Hitler’s moustache at tea party protests. You may not like Stephen Starr but painting a Jewish restaurant owner as a Nazi by replacing the first letters of his name with symbols of the Shutzstaffel is so far beyond social and economic disagreement and irresponsible on every level.
@sirius videman: While I hear what you are saying, I’m of the opinion that these posters are so profoundly stupid as to not even be effectively racist. It goes without saying that these posters do not reflect our opinions simply because they themselves seem to be reflective of no thought process that a reasonable person could even discern.
Thanks for going right ahead and painting us with that brush, though. Mighty white of ya!
While I know nothing about Mr Starr or his restaurant, I feel compelled to point out that both Dr King and President Lincoln are, in fact, dead. As cadavers, it is extremely unlikely that they would receive service in any restaurant in the United States. They would also be physically incapable of placing an order, and very likely fail to tip the waitstaff.
FYI, @sirius videman, Mr. Starr is not Jewish.
Actually, Sirius, when the mainstream media covers anonymous anti-semitic or racist attacks (graffiti, the recruitment fliers KSS puts up around Kenzington, etc.), since they are anonymous attacks, the media generally just shows the vandalism, defacement, or images. Reasonable people can and do infer from that coverage, i.e. it goes without saying, that the media outlet is not endorsing said defacement by airing, but is rather alerting the community to the activity. Then there are the children who produce tirades like yours.
In the future, refrain from harangues about best journalistic practices while your knee-jerksauce hasn’t a clue of what standard practices are in similar instances.
I still think this designer should have insinuated a Stephen/Ringo connection to p.o. the neighborhood’s music crowd. I suppose the invading German parallel plays off the Polish and slavic communities historic to Fishtown/Kenzo, but aren’t there a lot of Germans there too historically? I mean roughly southwest of this newly contested ground, the German society is right next door to the Latvian society, right?
An anti-Old Citification flier would have been more on point.
@Marty B, sure, but these were emailed to Philebs/Phoodie, not seen in the wild. So the site is really just acting as distribution for the material. AFAIK, this is the only place you can see them. The editors of this site are not journalists, so you can’t really fault them for this; they think its funny and I agree. But, tips or Colin or whoever, you gotta realize you got played on this; whatever douche made these retarded posters is getting a lot more publicity out of this than if he just put them on a telephone poll in Fishtown.
@barryg @everyone, actually.
this is actually the first I’m seeing this and I would not have posted it. Having a family with a mother from Germany who had her father taken by the Nazis to a German POW camp and killed shortly thereafter, I do not take this lightly. I do not want my name attached to this.
Collin
>last two times i set foot in a starr restaurant, it was a black friend who forced those overly-sweetened drinks and overpriced food into my otherwise happy daily life.
Are you kidding me? No one forced you to go into the restaurant and no one forced you to buy fairy drinks or food you can’t afford. Don’t go to restaurants that won’t make you happy, nimrod.
ressurecting this post to make a cheap shot at me? LAME. who tells a friend “no, i’m not going to the restaurant you love and picked.” I know, a nimrod e-bully!
i can afford starr food, i just know it isn’t worth it.