Comments on: Students Face Heat For "Hit A Jew Day"

Four St. Louis Middle School Students May Be Punished For Allegedly Hitting Jewish Classmates

[p0ntific8r]

Big deal about nothing. Hardly newsworthy.
BTW, did anyone of you who feel outraged about this, express any concern about it being a slur to call Senator Obama a "Muslim" or an "Arab"? It seems to be the case in the United States that even the slightest, remotest insult against Jews is considered out of bounds, but anything goes when it comes to Muslims. I wonder why?


Posted by cdfoxtrot4 at 01:43 PM : Oct 24, 2008


Oh, yeah. I took offense and still do about the slurs towards Senator Obama as well as when iI hear them towards anyone, whether I know them or not. The best way to keep our country in wars is to minimalize everyone else. It is so easy to deprive others of their dignity and civil rights if we can justify them as subhuman.

[linfinster]

THIS isn''t a silly Middle School joke, it''s real and shouldn''t be ignored! What are people THINKING?!
... and Helen .. ? ... it wouldn''t surprise me to find out that you and your family laugh and joke/degrade others in your family. Your attitude is making our youth sick.

[toolmangler-2009]

Whats the best description for Jewish foreplay??
20 minutes of complaining.
Posted by SmugBachelor at 01:34 PM : Oct 24, 2008


Here is a perfect example of what I mean.

[helenahandb]

easeup, you crack me up. Titty Twister, indeed. I''d forgotten all about the perils of childhood back in the day..... LOL!! :D

[p0ntific8r]

helenahandb: I don''t think anybody needs to be involved other than the shool, the parents and the kids. A Hit "anybody" day is wrong to start of with, but to single out a particular group is one of the first steps on the slippery slope of dehumanizing others and extending the mistreatment to something more severe. Sensitivity training and respect for others is certainly called for in this instance.

[toolmangler-2009]

I agree, this is just a middle school game. I am half japanese and beleive me every Dec 7th They called it Slap a *** day and I got my share of punches. People are just taking this way to personal.
Posted by marunnels at 01:34 PM : Oct 24, 2008


It is the mindset behind the action that should be addressed. It is not much of a stretch from "punch a *** day to kill a *** day. Anything that puts a race or group in an inferior position is wrong and only leaads to trouble. Grow up peeople and quit giving kids permission to hate.

[easeup-2009]

Kids are hitting each other now?

In my day it was the Tittty-Twister, the Indian Burn, the Purple Nurple and the infamous Atomic Wedgie.

These kids lack creativity these days!

[funnybone6-2009]

Hitler also used similar forms of abuse to publicly encourage "Nazi youth programs" in pre-World War II Germany. Are we moving slowly in that direction now?

Wasn''t that problem resolved by war decades ago? Why repeat that past in the USA? Aren''t the history teachers in that state teaching the horrors of the Holocaust? (I mean, really, I remember that past, and I''m a Roman Catholic!)

[marunnels]

I agree, this is just a middle school game. I am half japanese and beleive me every Dec 7th They called it Slap a *** day and I got my share of punches. People are just taking this way to personal.

[helenahandb]

think that maybe you need to review your history lessons, both current and at least back through WWII. Any disrespect for a people''''s culture, religion, ethnicity or race is serious and needs to be addressed quickly and severely. I am not saying that anything terrible should happen to these kids, but they (and you) need to understand how serious in nature this is.


Posted by P0ntific8r at 01:03 PM : Oct 24, 2008

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I''m well aware of the lessons learned from history. You and I just don''t see this issue the same way. Where you see a racist incident I see something random in which nothing racist was intended. I seriously doubt that these kids had any ill will toward the jewish kids, any more than they had ulterior motives for slapping hands with high fives the day before. If the day had been "hit a white kid" day nobody would''ve thought a thing about it and we wouldn''t be here talking about it now. And to involve the Anti-Defamation League in something like this is silly and petty beyond belief.