# Onion posts satiric article calling Redskins owner a "kike" & a "shifty-eyed hebe". OK or too much? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086 "2013-10-24T04:24:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/21 "2013-10-24T14:28:53Z")
It’s _The Onion_. They’ve done worse. They’ll do it again. I thought the article was funny, and I’m Jewish. I agree with **friedo** … love the word “hebe”. 😃 Edit: Really, is it any worse than “12-Year-Old Bully Not So Tough After Being Molested”? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/22 "2013-10-24T14:31:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > One interesting thing I noticed is they never mentioned Snyder by name. You know, I hadn’t noticed that. I have a feeling their legal department had something to do with that. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/23 "2013-10-24T14:35:23Z")
I refuse to be offended by trivialities. By all means, go further, Onion. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/24 "2013-10-24T16:49:45Z")
IMO not too much, since the point is that it’s a racist slur. > [@DocCathode](#): > > Except now, I want an NFL expansion team called the Hebes. We used to have a smiley that could be brought to bear on this… ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/25 "2013-10-24T17:24:17Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Re article below- [Redskins’ Kike Owner Refuses To Change Team’s Offensive Name](http://www.theonion.com/articles/redskins-kike-owner-refuses-to-change-teams-offens,34292/) > > Too much or a fair point of satire given his insistence on not changing team’s name? Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/26 "2013-10-24T17:35:29Z")
It’s obvious (to me at least) that _The Onion_ isn’t really racist and the article is a satirical joke. Then it cannot be offensive to me. I didn’t even find it offensive when they called the little girl a cunt on Twitter. Obviously, many disagreed with me on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/27 "2013-10-24T17:42:29Z")
In England we call waitresses Hebes. ---
**Author:** ![Kable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kable)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/28 "2013-10-24T17:44:15Z")
I thought it was funny. It’s nothing compared to this one: > **[World's Jews Celebrate Christmas With Ceremonial Re-Murdering Of Christ](https://www.theonion.com/worlds-jews-celebrate-christmas-with-ceremonial-re-murd-1819565421)** > > JERUSALEM—As Christians everywhere celebrate the birth of Christ this holiday season, the world's approximately 14 million Jews are also commemorating the special holiday, as they do each year, by ceremonially re-murdering the Baby Jesus. Details of... ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/29 "2013-10-24T18:36:47Z")
Fair point, on topic, funny and obviously not racist. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/30 "2013-10-24T18:39:36Z")
> [@Claverhouse](#): > > In England we call waitresses Hebes. Only the Jewish ones? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/31 "2013-10-24T19:19:34Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > There was a magazine aimed at Generation X Jews called “Hebe” (or was it Heeb?). A friend has a few issues. What a weird non sequitur. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/32 "2013-10-24T19:23:49Z")
In fact [Heeb magazine still exists](http://heebmagazine.com/). I was going to say that word also has a history as a non-slur, but I was thinking of [Yid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yid). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/33 "2013-10-24T20:34:12Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > What a weird non sequitur. Well, he did say his friend had issues. 😉 As to the OP: I find it hard to believe that anyone would find “redskin” acceptable but “hebe” or “kike” unacceptable, whether in an Onion article or anywhere else…but I guess some people forget that Native Americans/Indians actually exist. Like, today. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/34 "2013-10-24T21:24:21Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > I don’t know what a hebe is. > > Yeah seems kind of lazy. _[Brian Cohen]:_ I’m not a Roman mum, I’m a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook-nose, I’m kosher mum, I’m a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!_[/Brian Cohen]_ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/35 "2013-10-24T21:31:17Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Am I a bad Jew because I really enjoy the word “hebe?” It just sounds funny. “Hebrew” makes me think of an Israeli beer. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/36 "2013-10-24T21:49:32Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > “Hebrew” makes me think of an Israeli beer. He’Brew. The Chosen Beer. [http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/](http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/) I’ve had it, but I don’t remember if I liked it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/37 "2013-10-24T22:29:54Z")
A hebe’s a plant isn’t it? I’m pretty sure my mum grows them… ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/38 "2013-10-25T02:15:14Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > He’Brew. The Chosen Beer. [http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/](http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/) Ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/39 "2013-10-25T11:16:04Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > He’Brew. The Chosen Beer. [http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/](http://www.shmaltzbrewing.com/HEBREW/) > > I’ve had it, but I don’t remember if I liked it or not. Actually, I’ve tried many of Shmaltz Brewing’s offerings and many are fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086/40 "2013-10-25T12:38:01Z")
I’m not Jewish, but I think they went too far. It’s not the fault of other Jewish people that this guy is a jerk, so I think the history behind the racial slurs used trumps the humor of the piece. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onion-posts-satiric-article-calling-redskins-owner-a-kike-a-shifty-eyed-hebe-ok-or-too-much/672086.md?page=3)