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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody kept drawing swastikas near UMD dorms and it turned out to be a black employee. This was one or two years ago. Lots of mentally deranged individuals around the DC area[/quote]

Why is that any "better.". Swastika is primarily anti-Jewish at this point.  Why would it be somehow excusable for a black person to do it?
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It’s not better. People like to dismiss anti-Semitic attacks.[/quote]

It does make a difference who does it, IMO.

The kid who was making phone threats to synagogues in MoCo a few years ago, was going to be an Israeli teen.

There was graffiti on our local synagogue and it turned out that one of the people involved had a mom who worked at the synagogue.

I think they need to prosecute these as harsher simply because it’s vandalism.  Focus on the fact that you shouldn’t destroy someone else’s property.  No matter what you’re writing.  [/quote]

Yeah, but it’s upsetting to the community nonetheless. Many people dismissed the phone threats as not a big deal because apparently the kid wasn’t actually going to carry it out, but as someone who took my daughter to swim lessons at the Rockville JCC (which had one of the threats) it was really scary nonetheless.

Same thing if a kid spraypaints noose on a wall. Were they going to lynch a black student? Almost certainly not. Is it still very upsetting and contributes to making black students feel unwelcome? Yes.[/quote]

In that case, you’d probably prefer that the crime be prosecuted the same way whether it was an Israeli kid who did it or it was a White kid.  If you’re simply upset by the symbol, then it sounds like it doesn’t matter as much what the race of the person doing the graffiti was.

So, again, I’d say that they need to just prosecute it heavily as destruction of property.  No matter what it is.  It’s wrong to spray paint anything on someone else’s wall without their permission.  [/quote]

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