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dimbear

(6,271 posts)
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 07:10 PM Nov 2013

Swastikas slurs and torments in towns schools..........

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/swastikas-slurs-and-torment-in-towns-schools.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
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A picture of President Obama, with a swastika drawn on his forehead, remained on the wall of an eighth-grade social studies classroom for about a month after a student informed her teacher, the student said.

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.
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dimbear: this sort of obscenity always seems to increase when economic times are hard. Time to redouble efforts to quash it. New York? Really?
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Swastikas slurs and torments in towns schools.......... (Original Post) dimbear Nov 2013 OP
Whenever the economy is in bad condition, ugly forms of bigotry surface LeftishBrit Nov 2013 #1

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
1. Whenever the economy is in bad condition, ugly forms of bigotry surface
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 07:16 PM
Nov 2013

Blame the immigrants, the minorities, and of course the oldest scapegoat in history: the Jews.

Awful that kids should have to deal with this.

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