High school students play "Beat the Jew"

[dandi]

After all the years of vile, hate-filled anti-Jewish/Israeli sentiment that has spewed from the Left in general, and DU in particular, DUmmies want to blame this on conservatives:

nichomachus (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 09:59 AM
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High school students play "Beat the Jew" -- officials "We can't do anything. It's not illegal"

 http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100527/NEWS04/5270311...


A game with anti-Semitic elements played by dozens of La Quinta High School students has offended many but isn't illegal, officials said Wednesday.

The game, called “Beat the Jew,” has caused “extreme disappointment,” but the 40 students involved can't be punished because it happened off school property, Principal Donna Salazar said Wednesday.

Those who were offended said something more should be done to teach tolerance.

“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?”

The chase game involved a runner — called a “Jew” — and groups of people chasing in cars — “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.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8428872#8430055

RKP5637  (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 10:12 AM
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9. I've been thinking similar... each day this country goes further downhill. Ignorant,
 rude and cruel. Some of my friends have said the US is becoming (has become) a country of assholes and bullies... I have to concur when I see crap like this. And much of it we will never hear of...

We tolerate hatred far too much in this country and it will erode the future of the US.

 

nichomachus (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 10:18 AM
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12. They are all related
 Once the country officially begins to demonize, marginalize, and depersonalize groups of people, it ends up in games like this.

 

RKP5637  (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 10:22 AM
Response to Reply #10
17. Excellent point!!! It must be wonderful to be one of the PERFECT people in
 the US. This country develops lists of groups of people now to persecute, and it becomes open hunting season. Disgusting.

Like "old white guys", conservatives, Christians,...Jews...

nichomachus (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 10:21 AM
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16. I'll bet they could do something if it were "Beat the Christian" 
 They would find a way to stop that.

You'd be finding excuses for them if that happened.

Scuba (813 posts)      Thu May-27-10 11:27 AM
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26. Do you think their parents are conservatives or liberals?

I'll put $50 on the Liberals to Win.

Angry Dragon  (1000+ posts)        Thu May-27-10 11:49 AM
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30. It seems the real teachers today are
 Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, bigoted political leaders, some so called "christian" churches, and others that fall into this realm.

They teach at the school of hate and fear. They teach that anyone that is different than you is bad and evil. They teach that by looking at one's color of skin you can tell that they are bad for society. Their school fight song is HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE...........

THEY TEACH BIGOTRY AND INTOLERANCE.........Perhaps it is time to turn the tables on them and tell them we will no longer tolerate them.

Yes, those three are always down on the Jewish people.

fascisthunter  (1000+ posts)        Thu May-27-10 12:41 PM
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36. has anyone performed a study to see if there is a correlation between the uprising of bigotry
 or hate crimes and the advent of the right spouting their racist shit on the radio across the country?

Has anyone performed a study to see if there is a correlation between the rabid anti-Semitism on the Left and hate crimes against Jews?
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 



 

[thundley4]

It would really piss the DUmmies off if they knew the game we played as kid.

Smear the queer with the ball.  Played with a football, it was basically like hot potato, but you got tackled if you held the ball too long.

[dandi]

It would really piss the DUmmies off if they knew the game we played as kid.

Smear the queer with the ball.  Played with a football, it was basically like hot potato, but you got tackled if you held the ball too long.

Brickbat  (1000+ posts)      Thu May-27-10 10:30 AM
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21. I had never heard of "smear the queer" until Mr. Brickbat told me he played it in school, and at my 
 kids' birthday party I heard kids playing "smear the queer." It's another name for "kill the carrier," mentioned upthread.

 
 

[miskie]

Google Maps tells me that La Quinta High School is in Southern California.. I wonder if the primitives realize what the racial and ethnic makeup of the kids playing this game probably are.

We will know if this story drops off the face of the earth, or if it ends up all over the news.

[jukin]

We had both the tackle and the dodge ball versions of Smear the Queer. So much I did then would now land a straight A, captain of the leaque champion swim team in jail.