Antisemitic Posters on Pick Up Truck Stir Outrage

NextDoor.com lit up on April 8, 2020 after a neighbor posted a cell phone photo of the back of a contractor’s white 2006 Toyota Tacoma pick up truck spotted on Rockville Pike with anti Semitic posters pasted onto the rear window.

The poster behind the driver’s seat reads in all caps:
“BY NOW MOST OF MY CHILDREN HATE JEWS.”

The poster behind the passenger seat reads:
“JEWS MUST BE SEEN TO BE PUNISHED FOR WHAT JEWS DO TO HUMANS. IT’S OK TO BE ANGRY AT JEWS.”

Similar photos of the same pick up truck are repeatedly posted to Twitter by different people of the same truck. A Twitter post from 2018 notes a different message behind the passenger seat:
“DURING PRIOR AIDS PANDEMICS THE GLOBAL JEW POPULATIONS STAGNATED OR DECLINED IN NUMBERS.”

Close to 200 posts on NextDoor.com from nearby neighbors appeared within just two days. They chimed in, shared their thoughts, expressed their concerns, and unanimously denounced the message on the back of the pick up truck.

Instinctively, most responded with: This is just wrong. We should do something about it. Everyone got triggered, because the sentiments expressed on the pick up truck were designed to trigger a visceral response.

Most people can define what hatred or bigotry are. [CONTINUE READING]