Posted on 06/01/2010 1:04:35 PM PDT by jazminerose
Students at La Quinta High School, in So Cal’s Coachella Valley have been amusing themselves playing a game called “Beat the Jew”. In the “game”, a runner is called a “Jew” and chased by groups of people in cars called “Nazis”.
"'The objective for the Jew is to run down Hwy. 111 to a specified checkpoint before the Nazis can catch up to him, tackle him down and capture him,’ according to a Facebook page that was taken down on Friday."
Desert Sands Unified School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee displayed the twisted view of the First Amendment endemic to liberals:
"'(It’s) their freedom of speech; there’s not much we can do except be disappointed,’ Desert Sands Unified School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee said, adding that many students apologized." La Quinta, incredibly, is known as one of the better schools in the Valley:
"‘We only have three weeks until there’s not much you can do about it,’ said the 18-year-old La Quinta High student who alerted officials to the game and Facebook page promoting it. She has asked to remain anonymous and is staying home from school out of fear of retribution."
"‘Some of these kids that have joined the group, they’re like the cream of the crop of my class,’ she said. ‘They’re going to be the leaders of our future and they feel this way?’"
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Metmom, have you noticed that nearly all of these school outrage stories are schools that would be considered “good”? Yet...There are parents who insist that their child's government school is somehow “different”.
Unbelievable!
And...Another thought:
Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)
How on earth would this kind of crap teach them about the Holocaust?
They get taken to the Holocaust museum in Rancho Mirage for that.
http://www.toleranceeducationcenter.org/about/
HA! Memories!
Seems a little like Smear the Queer we used to play.
Unbelievable.
I didn't say teach. I used the much lower standard of "remembering". I'm not encouraging this, but I don't think that their knowing that the Nazis were the bad guys and the Jews were the victims is a bad thing. There are many in the world that want that to be forgottrn.
I have read books over the years regarding the treatment of the Jews by the guards, either through experimentation by Dr. Mengele, or the outright brutal treatment by the guards.
A couple of things still stay with me, and I guess it is because it involved children.
One incident involved a guard who approached a little girl, in full view of the inmates. He rustled something in his pocket, giving her the impression that he had some candy for her. He told her to close her eyes and open her mouth. When she did, he put a pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger.
There was another guard who loved to take a knife and plunge it into the stomach of children.
In time, I developed the attitude that there should never be rest and reprieve for these monsters. None of them should be allowed to die breathing free air. I don't care if the guard has emphysema and is on oxygen. Take the oxygen away, put the bastard up against a wall and shoot him.
The superintendent is technically right — a government-run school (setting aside for the moment that such a thing really shouldn’t exist) shouldn’t have any authority to restrict students’ free speech rights outside of the school grounds and school-owned computers. The problem here is that there are so many “cream of the crop” students who don’t have a well-founded fear that their parents would exact swift and terrible justice if they ever found out their offspring were participating in something like this.
I certainly hope school officials will at least notify parents of students who were identified as participating, since it will probably be difficult for parents to check themselves, now that the pertinent website has been taken down. A responsible parent would immediately confiscate the car keys, cell phone, and any other amenities not essential to completing the last 3 weeks of academic work, inform the kid that parental financial support for college is now only a distant future possibility, and that the kid (assuming over 18) will have 24 hours from the end of graduation exercises to find new housing accommodations at their own expense.
OK, obvious question. How far would you accommodate their "freedom of speech" if the game were called "beat the queer", "beat the muslim", or the venerable "beat the n*****"?
Thought so.
No. Unfortunately, I believe it. It is a great big hairy monster.
The presidetn of the US feels this way.
| In the “game”, a runner is called a “Jew” and chased by groups of people in cars called “Nazis”. This is horrible. We don't want school children remembering the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews. We want it to be completely forgotten. Right? |
You almost had it.
Take the oxygen away, put the bastard up against a wall and...grasp his skull with both hands and slowly increase pressure on his eyeballs with your thumbs until he screams... then gasps for air and can't seem to draw any in. Then, right before he passes out, apply full pressure to explode the eyeballs. Then let him die on the floor.
Sincerely, I doubt that with the state of their education today these would have any greater feelings for the unpopular victims of the Nazis than for the Christians thrown to the lions. It’s all ancient history.
Today, students are taught to believe that only half black, “former Muslim”, Jew hating, baby aborting, practitioners of Black Liberation Theology and Marxism are worthy of their worship and admiration and then only so long as they support the teacher’s union.
I watched World at War and Victory at Sea over and over on broadcast TV when I was a teen. The episode you mention was the most memorable. Years later the Holocaust mini-series came out and still later it was aired in Germany. I was serving in Germany at the time (US Army). Too few people, here and in Germany, had no idea about “Arbeit Macht Frei”, the rod iron message I, myself, saw on a gate at Dachau. We forget. We ignore. Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur… it is mankind’s shame that we so casually forget. And we make it a source of entertainment. How sad.
The NappyOne
All that tearing down of America, multiculturism, community service projects, and sensitivity training foisted on students by the public schools doesn’t mean much to many young college students. They’ll think and do what they want regardless of what they’re taught. According to this article, there is a total lack of empathy for others.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2525462/posts
Perhaps the public schools are not as successful as they think regarding social issues. Perhaps they should just go back to imparting academic knowledge and leave the socialization issues alone.
I was really hoping someone woould have plugged in “Obama” but that wouldn’t be politically correct.
Now, I must go watch my boot-leg copy of Disney’s “Song of the South”.
Not so unbelievable when you read ALL the posts on this thread. Unfortunately.
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