These Arizona teens are a whole new level of “mean girl.” They decorated cupcakes with swastikas at a Jewish teen’s birthday party.
Apparently, the offenders did it to be “funny.” Holocaust jokes are not okay, people. The partygoers had studied the Holocaust in school, so they thought they knew about it.
Carlos Galindo-Elvira, the director of the Anti-Defamation League in Arizona said:
“When you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.”
Arizona teens bring swastika cupcakes to Jewish girl's birthday party https://t.co/BmHWxJKi1j pic.twitter.com/t12CpiMKg7
— 12 News (@12News) November 28, 2016
The mother of the Jewish teen wrote:
“This is not a political post, but i believe this has EVERYTHING to do with the political environment we’re now living in… I truly hope from the bottom of my heart that our prez-elect [sic] can bring this cracked country together. Incidences of awful racist, misogynistic, anti-semetic [sic], etc. behavior are skyrocketing — you see it in posts that have been forwarded or news stories, but it always happens ‘somewhere else’ or ‘not in my backyard’. Well, how about it happening right in YOUR OWN HOUSE?”
She rhetorically asked the teens these questions:
“Is this funny? Is this right? Is this nice to do at another person’s party in another person’s house? Are the lids to human kindness and decency ripped off so permanently that this can happen to YOUR kid in YOUR house? Just something to think about and maybe have a discussion with your children about certain actions.”
This is a great lesson for those teenagers. Think before you act. The swastika is not a joke. These racist symbols are not cute or funny. We should be advocating for the end of racism and anti-Semitism. The swastika shouldn’t be used again for any reason.
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