Perhaps he didn't know that Surly Amy is Jewish and therefore the Star of David pendant was, as already suggested, a badly Godwinned attempt at a joke.
For my own part, I only learned that "Roth" was a Jewish surname over this past week or two...
Well, I didn't know Surly Amy was Jewish either...
Amy is Merkin and far too young to have lived in Nazi occupied Europe. She did not survive a concentration camp. She has created enough fake oppression to feign perpetual victimhood, without others creating even more reasons.
Everyone needs to stop the humourous analogies with dictatorships and oppression! Don't you people know I have some Russian ancestry, and have relatives who had to live under Stalin?
Anyone with Chinese decent? Mao Zedong
Italian? Benito Mussolini
Cambodian? Pot Pol
Ugandian? Idi Amin
Chilian? Pinochet
from Zimbabwe? Robert Mugabe
Sudanese? Omar Al-Bashir
Libyan? Muammar Al-Gaddafi
There have been numerous brutal oppressive dictators, all with a horrific list of crimes against humanity, usually against their own people.
Amy may not even have any descendants who were in Nazi occupied Europe. Not every Jewish person has roots there...
In addition, Amy is an atheist. I don't see her going to a synagogue to mourn and show respect for the victims of the Holocaust, and it is considered extremely disrespectful for a Jewish person to voluntary have themselves tattooed, because of the tattooed numbers on the arms of those who were in concentration camps. She is about as personally affected by a Nazi reminder as any ethical person is.
If those who have something in common with people tyrannized by the Nazis are handled with special consideration, then those that have something in common with anyone who lived in fear should receive the same courtesy.
and why is it only Jewish people that others are concerned about when Nazis are referenced?
"Pooftah" is mentioned as being homophobic, but not the persecution of homosexuals by Nazis? It is estimated that 100,000 gay men (and some gay women) were arrested during Hitler's reign. Many were sent to the concentration camps, and the ones that were imprisoned in regular prisons were not much better off.
What about the mentally ill and the physically and mentally disabled? Why are they not mentioned when a joke is made about the Holocaust? They don't deserve the same respect as Jewish people?
If
Amy had survived the Holocaust, then I would agree that a humorous Nazi reference is inappropriate. Perhaps also if
her parents survived, but just being of Jewish descent does not entitle one to special treatment when using irony to make a point.
In addition, Amy is an atheist. I don't see her going to a synagogue to mourn and show respect for the victims of the Holocaust, and it is considered extremely disrespectful for a Jewish person to voluntary have themselves tattooed, because of the tattooed numbers on the arms of those who were in concentration camps.