Officials say they’ve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, “Ziggin Zaggin,” is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur.
Jim Ritchie with the Port Authority says they will remove the messages from buses.
“… due to recent complaints about how this message appears when read backward, we have decided to remove the message from our vehicles,” he said. “This will take us several days to properly remove. We apologize to anyone who may have been offended.”
When religious lunatics complained about records that when played backwards had hidden Satanic messages, they were rightfully dismissed as lunatics. But when a SJW sees a hidden message in a bus slogan, it has to be treated as a Totes Serious Heteronormative Microaggression Trigger.
Ridiculous!!! Stop the nonsense…
I am going to say that no actual black people are offended by this because last summer I wore a “WHITE PRIVILEGE IS EVOLUTION that’s why Asians have it also” to amusement parks and not a single black was smart enough to be offended by my walking functional literacy test.
Read backwards, the slogan sounds like half the lyrics of current hip hop/rap songs. Are officials going to pull them too?
I had to look up ‘SJW’ in the Urban Dictionary. I guess I’m too white and too rural….