"Nazi" game stirs up California school
We read:
"La Quinta High School is working with the Anti-Defamation League to provide more tolerance education in response to a controversial game dozens of students played, officials said Friday.
The off-campus game, dubbed “Beat the Jew,” was a chase game that involved a group of students in cars, called “Nazis,” trying to catch up with a student — a “Jew” — trying to run to a specified location.
Participation in the game was voluntary. It did not constitute a crime and did not happen on school property, so officials said the 40 or so students involved can't be punished by the school — though officials did talk with them and ask that the Facebook group promoting the game be taken down.
“I would love to be able to do something,” Salazar said about creating more consequences for the students involved.
Many of the students have been to museums of tolerance in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and teachers work hard to make historical events such as the Holocaust hit home with students, she said.
Some have argued that while the game included insensitive terminology, it meant no harm and was not intended to be a threat.
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The game was undoubtedly insensitive but it would be very tedious if everybody was sensitive all the time. I suspect that the kids just saw it as a variation on "cowboys and Indians" -- though I suppose "cowboys and Indians" is pretty "incorrect" these days too.
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If games become "criminal" just because they are "insensitive" then we have truly lost our last freedoms.....
I’m just a wee bit curious what the reactions would be if the games were called “Bust the illegal” or “Water board the mullah”.
When I was a kid, we played "Smear the queer".
Interestingly enough, my kids tell me that that game is still played. [ Everyone tries to tackle the person with the ball; once you get tackled, you have to give up the ball. ]
I am not surprised, California is full of white-supremacists.
What freedoms are we celebrating again, if the state can introduce aggressive "reeducation" programs around a politically incorrect game?
Museums of tolerance? Only in Mexifornia.
I am very happy to read your articles, more useful for me especially
I have the same thing with you. I am so very petrified of this in my lectures.
Let them be. Boys will be boys. They NEED to burn up the over-abundance of testosterone that screams through their young bodies.
But ensure that their parents take the time to teach them life and ethics skills. Oh right, sorry, i was dreaming again.
I have done the research, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are 60 extremist groups in California.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
Of course, I disagree with them labeling the League of the South as extremists, but the state has lots of skinheads, Aryan brotherhood, holocaust deniers, the KKK, and other bigoted groups.
You have to realize that California is filled with frustrated white youth who are angry with multiculturalism, illegal-aliens, blacks, etc, and thus instead of joining a mainstream republican or Christian group, they join white supremacists groups.
In fact, California is the prefect brewing ground for bigots because left-wing politics always create racial tension, put one race or group above the other, play the race card against the majority, accuse you of hate if you wear a US flag on cinco de mayo.
Think about it, how is a white person supposed to feel when the school celebrates Black History Month but not White History or European History? It's obvious some of those whites will get frustrated and join hate groups, while I don't excuse such stupidity, I can understand it perfectly.
If the liberals really wanted a color-blind society all they have to do is stop celebrating colors! No more Hispanic Heritage, African History, Asian Studies, etc. Of course, they're never going to go for that.
As silly as this game is, what exactly does 'Salazar' (the school principal) want to do when she says "I would love to be able to do something". Presumably something more than talking with the students. What, torture?
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