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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not minimizing an anti-semitic incident. I said it should be taken seriously and the kids should be disciplined EVEN if it was unintentional, because I think you have to take this that seriously. My sense is that the incident probably made Jewish students feel very uneasy and that alone is enough to justify disciplining these kids, even if their actions were the result of ignorance or stupidity rather than actual anti-semitism.

But I think it's worth it to stop and ask ourselves if we really think a group of Blair students got together in the middle of the school day, decided to do a Hitler salute, practiced it in front of other students, and then went outside to take a photo of themselves doing it. I just think it's worth noting that this sounds implausible in this community because this would be a level of overt Nazi sympathizing that does not make sense with what I know of the community. There is of course anti-semitic sentiment around here, but it is much more covert than that and the people who share those sentiments generally don't view themselves as Nazis and in fact would condemn Nazism.

I just think we should maybe consider that this was more of an unfortunate misunderstanding than evidence that Blair harbors a group of Nazi students.[/quote]

There was no misunderstanding.  These kids need consequences as do the others at other schools.  Why is it ok to make Jewish kids feel uncomfortable (or muslim or asian) but not other groups?  You are racist if you think this is a misunderstanding and is ok.[/quote]

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