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Target forced to apologize after selling a card game that jokes about 'torturing Jews'

Target apologized for selling the Cards Against Humanity pack, which is still available on Walmart's website.
  • A Twitter user posted a picture of a Cards Against Humanity expansion pack that targets Jewish people.
  • The "Chosen People Pack" contains jokes that reference the Holocaust.
  • Target has apologized for selling the pack.
  • The pack was still available on Walmart's website on Thursday afternoon.

Cards Against Humanity, a card game where players answer fill-in-the-blank prompts with pre-written responses meant to shock and offend their fellow players, has come under fire for an expansion pack of cards that targets Jewish people.

The "Chosen People Pack" contains prompts and responses that reference the Holocaust, including one response card that reads "Torturing Jews until they say they're not Jews anymore." The cards are sold as the "Jew Pack" on Cards Against Humanity's website.

"Fun fact: 100% of the Cards Against Humanity writers are Jewish. Can you believe it? A Jewish comedy writer! Anything is possible in 2017," reads the product description on the game's site. It adds that the expansion pack contains "30 cards from our big brains full of facts and sadness."

Target drew criticism for selling the cards after pictures of the expansion pack were posted on Twitter.

"Available at your local Target. Despicable beyond," the tweet by Mike Lieber read.

Target's guest service account replied to the tweet and apologized for carrying the product.

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