Gold Man Sacks is an ethnic slur?

[Measure_for_Measure]

@Chronos

I don’t get this, either. As it is, the term is making the connection that a bank acts like a bank. The only Jewish connection is in the fact that the bank is named after a Jewish man, and that connection is thus actually weakened, not strengthened, by slightly changing the name. “Goldman” is a common Jewish surname. “Gold Man” is not. Using “Gold Man” does not in any way highlight the connection to a Jew or Jews.

This post received the original mod note: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19479246&postcount=407

Here’s an excerpt:

@Pearl_Clutching_Provocateur

Rahm Emmanuel
(1) Served in the Clinton administration to help pass their crowning achievement
NAFTA.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/January-2011/Luis-Gutierrez-on-Why-Rahm-Emanuel-Should-Not-Be-Mayor/
(2) Made 16 million on Wall Street and with Gold Man Sacks. Hillary loves Wall
Street since her son-in-law runs a hedge fund financed by Lloyd Blankfein CEO
of Gold Man Sacks.
(3) Has seen military action. Not for the United States. But for a foreign country.
(4) Wears spandex as a ballet dancer. You want a feminine figure to balance out
Hillary’s masculine qualities.

This is in an elections thread, not the Pit. I perceive a thread of anti-Semitism running through that post and I think asking him to “…stop with that ‘Gold Man Sacks’ stuff” is reasonable.