The Times’ writes high school teens regularly using term to refer to low-quality food, much to chagrin of Anti-Defamation League.
By Alex Jones Live
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned a recent New York Times report covering how words like “goy” and “goyslop” are being normalized by teens in America, arguing the terms are antisemitic dog whistles.
The story discussed how students at a New Jersey high school regularly used “goyslop” to criticize corporations and refer to low-quality food, noting it was “coined, or at least popularized, by far-right antisemites.”
“This teenager was absolutely not a far-right antisemite,” observed author Nitsuh Abebe of her subject, a 15-year-old Jewish student. “[H]e just happened to attend a New Jersey high school where students, Jewish and Christian and otherwise, said ‘goyslop’ all the time.”
“If your friend goes and gets McDonald’s, and gets two burgers and a shake,” the student told The Times, “like, ‘Oh, my god, that’s so goyslop, that’s goy.’”
Following the article, the ADL slammed The Times for attempting to make “goyslop” seem like “a fun linguistic curiosity,” claiming it’s actually “a term rooted in white supremacist conspiracy theories.”
“A slur doesn’t stop being a slur because teenagers started using it,” the Jewish advocacy group wrote on X, adding, “Normalizing this kind of language is dangerous.”
“‘Goyslop’ is not just edgy slang,” the org stated. “It combines ‘goy,’ the Hebrew word that colloquially refers to non-Jews, with ‘slop’ to promote a conspiracy theory that Jewish people deliberately poison non-Jews with cheap food to keep them docile.”
The group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt likewise bashed The Times, complaining that “‘Goyslop’ is not quirky internet slang worth normalizing. It’s an antisemitic slur born from white supremacist hate, built on the conspiracy theory that Jews deliberately harm non-Jews.”
“@nytimes should know better than to give this language a platform,” he added.
The Jewish org’s reaction immediately drew criticism on social media, with many highlighting the absurdity in Jews complaining about a term they invented to disparage non-Jews and equating its usage to how black people appropriated the N-word.
“Interesting that ‘goyslop’ is labeled hate speech by the ADL but not the word ‘goy’ itself, an obvious ethnic slur,” noted political commentator Jack Posobiec.
One thing’s certain – the Overton window has definitely shifted when the NYT is writing about the “normalization” of “goyslop.”