HOS Dressed as Pharaoh for Super Hero Promo video during the month of Passover... wtf?!

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Anonymous wrote:What was his intent? To offend? Or make history fun?

Intent doesn't usually seem to matter when the outrage machine gets going.

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Congressional Family here: you all need to lighten up. He is a wonderful man who maybe should have chosen a more tolerant costume for a super hero theme. End of story. No one here is mad!

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Anonymous wrote:Am I only Jew here who finds this odd, but ultimately harmless and irrelevant?

It was a cute video. I don't see the big deal.

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Why didn’t anyone filming or participating warn him? Thought these independent schools were supposedly enlightened.

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Hmmm no big deal. What if someone dressed up as a slave owner or slave master? Is it that this crime against Jews is too far in the past!? Or is it that racism against Jews is tolerable as long as it’s a kitschy fundraising video made during the holiest time of their religious year?

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Anonymous wrote:Congressional Family here: you all need to lighten up. He is a wonderful man who maybe should have chosen a more tolerant costume for a super hero theme. End of story. No one here is mad!

Being a wonderful person overall doesn't matter when he has committed the cardinal sin of an arguably somewhat in mildly bad taste costume. The story never ends there.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm no big deal. What if someone dressed up as a slave owner or slave master? Is it that this crime against Jews is too far in the past!? Or is it that racism against Jews is tolerable as long as it’s a kitschy fundraising video made during the holiest time of their religious year?

Look, diversity and equity and all that hasn't nor ever will include us. Move on. You are considered white. So, no racism can ever happen against a white person. It wasn't a good choice but its done.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm no big deal. What if someone dressed up as a slave owner or slave master? Is it that this crime against Jews is too far in the past!? Or is it that racism against Jews is tolerable as long as it’s a kitschy fundraising video made during the holiest time of their religious year?

I agree that the standards that apply to anti-semitism is very different than other forms of discrimination and certain things against Jews are often laughed off or ignored in ways that other things wouldn't today. But . . . I'm still having trouble getting too worked up about this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn’t anyone filming or participating warn him? Thought these independent schools were supposedly enlightened.

No one probably knew or they said something and he didn't care. How many Jews are at that school as teachers/adults?

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I realize this is an anonymous forum but if you are Jewish, and what I mean by that is that you have a Jewish parent and you practice our religion, not just for social justice reasons but because you actually believe in G-d and the covenant with Moses, please raise your hand if you think that this is stupid?

Hand raised.

We just finished the holiday of Purim. Children dress as the good guys and the bad guys. No one of sane mind thinks that this principal is trying to enslave Jews. This is just so moronic and takes away from the real fight agains antisemitism, which is prevalent throughout academia, media, politics and entertainment every day.

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Anonymous wrote:I realize this is an anonymous forum but if you are Jewish, and what I mean by that is that you have a Jewish parent and you practice our religion, not just for social justice reasons but because you actually believe in G-d and the covenant with Moses, please raise your hand if you think that this is stupid?

Hand raised.

We just finished the holiday of Purim. Children dress as the good guys and the bad guys. No one of sane mind thinks that this principal is trying to enslave Jews. This is just so moronic and takes away from the real fight agains antisemitism, which is prevalent throughout academia, media, politics and entertainment every day.

Not religious but really insensitive but I doubt it was done on purpose and if he has no exposure to Judaism he wouldn't know. I think its a lot of drama over nothing but to vilify him is silly.

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I am Jewish. People offended about everything. Lame outrage. Time for a chill pill.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I realize this is an anonymous forum but if you are Jewish, and what I mean by that is that you have a Jewish parent and you practice our religion, not just for social justice reasons but because you actually believe in G-d and the covenant with Moses, please raise your hand if you think that this is stupid?

Hand raised.

We just finished the holiday of Purim. Children dress as the good guys and the bad guys. No one of sane mind thinks that this principal is trying to enslave Jews. This is just so moronic and takes away from the real fight agains antisemitism, which is prevalent throughout academia, media, politics and entertainment every day.

Not religious but really insensitive but I doubt it was done on purpose and if he has no exposure to Judaism he wouldn't know. I think its a lot of drama over nothing but to vilify him is silly.

My point is that I am religious and this is not offensive. Anyone claiming that it is.. this person is not a friend to the Jewish people. There is plenty of antisemitism to go around... you don’t have to create it where it doesn’t exist.

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Not a big Jewish school. This is also btw cultural appropriation and just not really in good taste.

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im just trying to understand how a pharaoh is a super hero.