Now You Hasidim, Now You Don’t

Nothing funny to see here — except some amusing photos of hipsters in their underwear. I was the nut in this case, and now this is a retraction. After some cajoling from others here at Nuts in NY Plaza, I decided to delete something I wrote about Williamsburg’s Hasidic Jewish community, because of the kind of attention it was attracting.

This drastic action will confound Google, of course; anyone searching for the post will now get this dreaded message: NOT FOUND, ERROR 404.

The deleted post, titled “Hasidic Jews v. Brooklyn Babes on Bikes”, was based on reports that Hasids in Brooklyn objected to bike lanes being added to avenues thru their neighborhood. It was suggested by some that the lanes might encourage hipsters from north Williamsburg to cycle thru their area in less-than-modest clothing!

Now, I confess, having seen a few Williamsburg hipsters, I’m trying to imagine what kind of attire that might be…

But I’m still not sure.

Anyway, the problem was that a certain undesirable element on the Internets seems a little too interested in that article: anti-Semites. One lengthy screed submitted to the comments section rambled on illiterately about ‘what the damn Jew have done to our country’. (Oh dear, just wait til they hear what George W. Bush has did!)

After that I received word from a Jewish media organization that they would henceforth be monitoring what gets posted on Nuts in NY.

All of this, of course, was taking things in a wrong direction. Certainly for this website. But I recognize my original error in judgment. My bad. I’ll try to me more careful.

And sorry, haters, you’ll have to look elsewhere for validation of your sociopathy.

Now, if you please, let’s get back to the hipsters in their underwear…

Photo credits: thirteenofclubs via flickr

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