I think it may be a bit much at this point, to tie it to some sinister neo-Nazi or other anti-Semitic group. Still, some boys and girls were kicked and at that age, when peer approval is everything, the humiliation can be expected to matter a lot in their lives.
Although Fox News did comment on the kicking of red heads, I haven't seen an
y mention of the Naples story so far and so it's not fair and balanced to comment on what they might use the story for. I'm sure that there are people who will haul out the old PC straw man and grumble about Jews looking for pity and I'm more sure that some Jewish parents will overreact and call for more than the one-day suspension handed out to 10pre -teens. For my part, I think the Jewish kids have learned a valuable lesson about living in a self-styled Christian Nation: Kick Back!I had some idle thoughts about printing up some T-shirts and sending them over to Naples, but it's been done.
"You are talking about an incident that has anti-Jewish bias, if not anti-Semitism," Jewish Community Online quoted David Barkey of the Florida Anti-Defamation League. "You have Jewish students being singled out, harassed and assaulted. ... If the allegations are true, it is possible these students violated Florida’s new anti-bullying law. And, if students were physically assaulted, it could rise to the level of criminal conduct.”
ReplyDeleteNo, leniency would merely be a slap on the wrist that would enable the little bastards. Better punishment: Feed them to the alligators.
On one hand we have the post from Rocky about the 10 year old who refused to stand up and recite the pledge until such time as it applies to gays...
ReplyDeleteThen on the other hand...
We have this...
Of course neither one of these stories appeared on Fox...
But get a video of kids doing a school song in support of the President (current one not any of the conservative ones) and boy that thing plays forever!
I know alligators. Alligators are friends of mine and they won't eat just anything, you know.
ReplyDeleteI still think a taste of humiliation is punishment enough for now. I did and said some mighty stupid things as a 6th grader and I think I grew out of it. I think most of these kids will too.
Fox would hardly mention it - there's so much anti-Semitism behind their idiotic war on Christmas they don't dare bring up the subject.
Other kids have sung other songs in support of other governments without much ado and yet every day they are forced to acknowledge that there is a God and that the United States is his subject, contrary to constitutional law - so which incident do those Foxsuckers compare to brainwashing and Pol Pot? That's right.
So maybe little read headed girls and Jewish boys and girls should bring baseball bats to school and we'd have a quick end to this, but all in all and in the long run, it's hopeless. Smart people, decent people, enlightened people are outnumbered and always will be even though the future demands that we get smarter and nicer.
The best I hope for is to crack a few heads while I can and maybe be able to feed a few of them to the crabs. Now crabs will eat anything.
When we took the fists out of schools, the guns came in. Zero-tolerance policies have the perverse consequence of encouraging bullies, as hitting back is discouraged.
ReplyDeleteI want to see the Jewish kid (or "ginger kid," or Baha'i kid, whatever) get up and pop his persecutor in the face a few times. The only effective deterrent I have ever found for bullies is a swift ass-kicking.
I still prefer the alligator treatment. I don't want crabs eating them because I don't want them my food chain. Yuck!
ReplyDelete"I still prefer the alligator treatment. I don't want crabs eating them because I don't want them my food chain. Yuck!"
ReplyDeleteOh, so you'll eat a crab but not a 'gator, eh? Why you, you, phylumistQ!
No, no, no, my dear democommie! Q: What is the difference between a teenager and a terrorist? A: If you feed a terrorist to an alligator, it would considered a war crime.
ReplyDeletePostscript: Having raised 3 teenagers of my own, I have, shall we say, a certain understanding and empathy for those species that eat their own young.
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