Arizona students ruin Jewish teens birthday party with swastika cupcakes because its funny

[leftynyc]

KPNX reported that the mother of the teen posted images of the cupcakes on social media in hopes of making the incident a teaching moment. The mother said that she believed the party goers knew what the symbol means because they had recently had a lesson at school about the Holocaust.

The girls reportedly told the mother that they did it to “be funny.” In a subsequent Facebook post, the mother said that the girls had apologized.



I honestly don't even know what to say about this. What kind of fucking parents do these kids have that they thought this was funny?

[raging moderate]

1. Stand strong, everyone.

Dark times.

[Bonx]

4. swastika cupcakes, then internment camps

We're doomed.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Are you trying to be funny?

It's not okay.

[leftynyc]

9. I think your post

Is disgustingly inappropriate. Got anything to say about the ignorance revealed in this story?

[Mendocino]

25. When nobody else but you

is laughing, it's not funny.

[BigDemVoter]

2. WTF.

Goddamn idiots. Let those assholes spend 24 hours in a concentration camp & let them HOPE it's not of the "extermination" variety & THEN they can say how "funny" it was.

[Solly Mack]

3. Link

http://www.12news.com/news/local/valley/birthday-party-marred-by-swastika-cupcakes/356273071

How could they think that would be funny? What the fuck is wrong with those girls?


As a child (and a young child, at that), my mother made a point of teaching us to be aware of prejudice and its impact. To be aware of hate and the damage it causes. Not to turn it into a joke to be laughed at.

The "teaching moment" those girls needed should have come years ago.

If after a lesson on the Holocaust this is what they got from it... Then I despair of any "teaching moment" doing them any good.

[gratuitous]

11. 15 year old girls are the second dumbest creatures on the planet

Right after 15 year old boys. No, it wasn't funny. No, it wasn't appropriate. I'd be hard on these girls, but not too hard. There is a lesson to be learned, and I'd hate to be held accountable for everything I thought and did when I was a callow lad of 15 (or even 25, 35, 45 or 55). I don't know these girls' situation, but I'd gamble that they're not yet beyond all hope of redemption.

[Solly Mack]

12. I hope you're right about them.

I really do.

[lpbk2713]

5. Rampant ignorance.

WW2 is probably ancient history to them but even so someone should have done
a more thorough job of explaining the horror and inhumanity of those years.

[TheDebbieDee]

6. I don't think they teach history in school anymore...

[Mariana]

13. Where do you think they got the idea to do this?

These students wouldn't even know what a swastika is, or that it is relevant in any way to Jewish people, if they hadn't learned about it in history class.

[djsunyc]

15. unless...

they follow trump on social media.

[dembotoz]

22. On the contrary, had all the required history in high school

We always ran out of time by the Spanish American war...world war 1 and 2 were never covered as well as the great depression, etc etc....north American exploration like every damn year, anything that had any relevance to modern day....not so much

[DesertFlower]

7. OMG. how sick is that?

the parents probably voted for trump.

[leftynyc]

10. I wish I

we're as sure of their voting patterns.

[Nevernose]

14. I had a Mexican kid sieg heil-ing the other day

Maybe a month ago. And when I say "Mexican," I mean "18 months in the US, it's my job to teach him English."

He kept doing it because he thought it was funny. Eventually, after he waited in the hallway while I cooled down, we talked about it (in Spanglish, because that's the best I've got). "It was, like, a hundred years ago. Who cares?"

I still don't know if empathy is something I can teach someone beyond conceptually (as opposed to actually feeling empathy), but at least I got him to understand the inappropriateness.

My point s that it's not just Anglo-Americans and Trump voters. Kids from all nations can be obnoxious, inappropriate little assholes at times. I appreciate the mother who wanted to use this as a teachable moment. Kids are very rarely "bad," they're just kids and kids do stupid shit sometimes.

[Bettie]

16. This is who they are

and who their parents are.

They just feel much more free to express it now that their Dear Orange Leader has explicitly shown that anything goes.

[Behind the Aegis]

17. Now, now. Where's your sense of humor?

I am sure it was just a joke and it wasn't really tasteless, in fact, the teens were probably just trying to "reclaim" the swastika and, once again, we Jews are showing we have no humor. It is like the Russian ice skaters who preformed a lovely routine in full concentration camp attire and we, Jews, just don't "get it" that is actually a lovely tribute and acknowledgement of the Holocaust.

EXTREME !!!

I almost while writing that, but, personally, that's how some see shit like this! (Don't...just don't...read the comments about the ice skaters in LBN!)

At least we didn't have people 'splaining to us in this thread why this was OK, questioning those who find it offensive, or minimizing it (well, comment sure did).

Missed you! Glad you are back.

[left-of-center2012]

18. "What kind of fucking parents do these kids have ..."

Trump supporters?

[Generator]

20. This is so sad because it says everything

about where our country is going and is at. Hate is "cool" hate is "funny" hate is trending, hate is okay, hate is fun. This is why you cannot let the monster out of the bag. He's everywhere now. I will never forgive those that voted for Trump. No, I don't want to understand their damn economic pain and anger. I was born poor but I wasn't born with hate in my heart. Swastika's on my local elementary school. They didn't even know what it was really-it said Fuck Trump AND Fuck Hillary. All they knew was that hate was the thing-this is what Trump has taught them.

[Initech]

19. 10 says these are the types who are like "I'm not racist, but..."...

[Behind the Aegis]

21. Just a reminder...

Look at the very last graph...regarding age. I posted this two and a half years ago in this thread:Half of People Surveyed by the ADL Don't Know What the Holocaust Is

[leftynyc]

23. I remember when you

posted that before. Depressing doesn't even cover it. Good to see you, BTA.

[LeftishBrit]

24. How disgusting

It's not funny by any standards.

[saltpoint]

26. I hope that this young woman's truer friends

rallied around her, and reconnected with her to let her know they stood by her.

I hope those truer friendships were strengthened in the wake of the swastika girls' poor and cruel judgment.