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Related: About this forumSwastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools
The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide even on a students face.
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For some Jewish students in the Pine Bush Central School District in New York State, attending public school has been nothing short of a nightmare. They tell of hearing anti-Semitic epithets and nicknames, and horrific jokes about the Holocaust.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/swastikas-slurs-and-torment-in-towns-schools.html?pagewanted=all
Behind the Aegis
(54,013 posts)In economic hard times, two groups usually get the blame, Jews and immigrants.
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)radicalliberal
(907 posts)I thought anti-Semitism was dead in the U.S. The ugliness never goes away, does it?
Behind the Aegis
(54,013 posts)There are also those who will eternally try to make it seem it isn't important.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)An uncle of mine commanded the U.S. Army troops who liberated Buchenwald. The troops he commanded had become hardened by all the bloodshed they had witnessed previously as soldiers in battle. But even that didn't prepare them for what they saw at Buchenwald. Many of them had nightmares about it after the liberation. If it was that bad for the troops who liberated the concentration camp, just think how bad it was for those who lived through it as inmates.
As a matter of fact, in the early 1980s while I was making a purchase at a local drug store, the lady behind the cash register told me she had a brother who had served in Europe during World War II where he was captured by German troops and incarcerated in a concentration camp instead of a POW camp. He had been an athlete in high school and had had a powerful build, a well-developed physique when his unit was sent to Europe. He was sent back to the U.S. when the camp was liberated. His loved ones were shocked when they saw his physical condition. He was emaciated. His powerful physique was gone. He had deliberately been subjected to starvation and who knows what else. He could not talk about how he had been brutalized in the camp and began to drink heavily for about a year and a half. Finally, he realized he was killing himself by his heavy drinking; so, he was able to stop. That was the time he was finally able to tell his loved ones about his traumatic experiences. That's quite a story. I think my mouth hung open the whole time this lady was telling me, a complete stranger, about her brother.
Oh, wow . . . I've stayed up all night. Good thing I can sleep in the morning. Gotta go.
Take care, my friend.
radicalliberal
(907 posts)I believe it was Dachau. Sorry about that.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)What horrid, horrid experiences those children faced
Wtf is wrong with people?
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Its just hate, she said outside after school last month. And just being kids.
"JUST being kids" is an offensive, insupportable assertion. We must call people out whenever they promulgate such garbage.