Post by M. Hawbaker on Dec 21, 2022 19:27:00 GMT
The New York Times is being ripped by social media users for publishing what they deemed a swastika-shaped crossword puzzle on the first night of Hanukkah.
The fraught Sunday brain-teaser, titled “Some Theme’s Missing,” had been concocted by Washington, DC-based consulting manager Ryan McCarty, who has formulated 22 other puzzles for the paper.
“Thrilled to have my first Sunday puzzle in The Times! This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas,” McCarty gushed in a section of the paper titled Constructor Notes.
However, astute viewers were quick to point out that the crossword’s silhouette bore an uncanny resemblance to a swastika, a symbol of hate during the Nazi regime.
“Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle,” fumed Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter. “Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people … EXACTLY ZERO.”
“This is the NYTimes crossword puzzle today on the first day of Hanukka. What the hell, @nytimes?” seconded Keith Edwards, the communications director at Nikki Fried for Governor.
“Folks are making hay over today’s @nytimes crossword layout,” criticized another aghast user. “If the swastika is unintentional, you’d think an editor along the way would have caught it. And on the first day of Hanukkah, no less.”
nypost.com/2022/12/19/new-york-times-slammed-over-swastika-crossword-on-first-day-of-hanukkah/
The fraught Sunday brain-teaser, titled “Some Theme’s Missing,” had been concocted by Washington, DC-based consulting manager Ryan McCarty, who has formulated 22 other puzzles for the paper.
“Thrilled to have my first Sunday puzzle in The Times! This grid features one of my favorite open middles that I’ve made as it pulls from a variety of subject areas,” McCarty gushed in a section of the paper titled Constructor Notes.
However, astute viewers were quick to point out that the crossword’s silhouette bore an uncanny resemblance to a swastika, a symbol of hate during the Nazi regime.
“Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle,” fumed Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter. “Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people … EXACTLY ZERO.”
“This is the NYTimes crossword puzzle today on the first day of Hanukka. What the hell, @nytimes?” seconded Keith Edwards, the communications director at Nikki Fried for Governor.
“Folks are making hay over today’s @nytimes crossword layout,” criticized another aghast user. “If the swastika is unintentional, you’d think an editor along the way would have caught it. And on the first day of Hanukkah, no less.”
nypost.com/2022/12/19/new-york-times-slammed-over-swastika-crossword-on-first-day-of-hanukkah/
