Students disciplined for playing "Beat the Jew" at California high school
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[release]A group of local high school students have been playing a chase game called “Beat the Jew” that involves a runner called a “Jew” and groups of people in cars, called “Nazis.”
All people involved are willing participants in the game, Desert Sands Unified School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee said.
A La Quinta High School student created a Facebook group page about the game and officials learned more through student Facebook posts.
The Facebook group page has since been taken down but students were not reprimanded because the game did not happen at school.
“There was no threat; there was no crime,” McGehee said. “They just played a game that had an ugly, insensitive stupid name.”
Many students said they didn't know the name of the game when they played or didn't think about the insensitive nature of it and have since apologized, McGehee said.
"I guess that's the issue, they didn't think," she said.
Although there are issues of religious insensitivity, La Quinta police Lt. Jason Huskey said that if all players are willing participants, the game likely does not carry criminal implications.
"If a bunch of kids are playing a game and they're voluntarily playing a game ... it doesn't appear to have any criminal liability," he said.
Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said that, assuming all people playing the game are willing participants, whether any criminal wrongdoing had been committed would depend on if participants using vehicles were following traffic laws.
"If they're driving, are they obeying the speed laws? Are they driving erratically?" he said. "Are they blowing lights? Are they speeding to get to them? Then there are going to be complications."
McGehee said it is her understanding that the game is also being played by other students in the valley, though she has no confirmation.
Police in Desert Hot Springs, Palm Springs, Cathedral City and Indio said they had not received word of students in their cities playing the game.
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How is this different than Cowboys and Indians
[QUOTE=Zeke129;22433173]How is this different than Cowboys and Indians[/QUOTE]
Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
Nigger is a racial epitaph, jew isn't. Semantically, it's different.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
what was done to the native people was just as if not worse than what was done to african americans
that's right
Kids are silly these days.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
The people playing this game are not supporting the fucking Holocaust. Kids make up games like this all the time because saying shit like this in public is taboo. I remember playing tons of "smear the queer" when I was younger. I didn't care about homosexuality, it was just to act like the super cool awesome rebellious kids we totally were.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
Incorrect, stop playing the holocard.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.[/QUOTE]
We did all of those things to the indians except for gassing and maybe experimentation
Fuck yeah smear the queer was awesome.
[QUOTE=Chippay;22433229]what was done to the native people was just as if not worse than what was done to african americans
that's right[/QUOTE]
That's debatable. However, in the end the holocaust was worse than all of that.
[QUOTE=Regulas021;22433260]The people playing this game are not supporting the fucking Holocaust. Kids make up games like this all the time because saying shit like this in public is taboo. I remember playing tons of "smear the queer" when I was younger. I didn't care about homosexuality, it was just to act like the super cool awesome rebellious kids we totally were.[/QUOTE]
These guys aren't little. They're driving cars, and should be old enough to understand and respect peoples races and so called taboos.
I could understand it if they were 8 (or even 12), but they're not.
snip i need to collect my thoughts hold on
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
I'd say it's pretty much the same basic thing, only 400 years instead of like 10.
First Nations people went through a lot man.
[QUOTE=TH89;22433266]We did all of those things to the indians except for gassing and maybe experimentation[/QUOTE]
So we rounded up all of the Indians into camps with the intent of killing them to the last man, killing infants and the elderly and then subjecting those able to work to horrific experimentations that left them as rotting husks? Did we then force others of them at gunpoint to haul off the decaying bodies and burn them? Then did we force them to march through the dead of winter, resulting in horrific injuries? All that not for land, but simply for the elimination of their race?
And all of that under the direct support of a major world power?
I don't understand why the name is so much a big deal. Why does the language involved matter so much when it should be about the actions?
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433271]That's debatable. However, in the end the holocaust was worse than all of that.[/QUOTE]
No the genocide of Native Americans was worse.
[QUOTE=IStanI;22433261]Incorrect, stop playing the holocard.[/QUOTE]
I'm damn going to play the holocard. It's an important card to play when you're talking about fucking nazis.
I can't really comprehend the comparison between the American's treatment of the Amerindians and the German's treatment of Jews.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433204]Because it's supportive of the systematic elimination of an entire race of people via gassing, torture, experimentation, and forced marching.
And that is worse than what we did to the Indians.
Just imagine if the game were beat the nigger.[/QUOTE]
Haha, are you kidding me? The Holocaust was [I]NOTHING[/I] compared to what we did to the Indians.
You cannot compare it to the Holocaust either. The time difference is too vast.
[QUOTE=gamefreek76;22433347]Haha, are you kidding me? The Holocaust was [I]NOTHING[/I] compared to what we did to the Indians.[/QUOTE]
Tell me how it was worse.
Who cares which is worse. Why is that even being argued? The comparison is between the games are still valid. Saying one was worse than the other isn't any way of arguing against what was originally being argued.
For example:
User 1 - "Coke is a soda, just like Mountain Dew"
User 2 - "No, Mountain Dew is way better"
User 3 - "Coke shouldn't even be considered a soda"
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433322]So we rounded up all of the Indians into camps with the intent of killing them to the last man, killing infants and the elderly and then subjecting those able to work to horrific experimentations that left them as rotting husks? Did we then force others of them at gunpoint to haul off the decaying bodies and burn them? Then did we force them to march through the dead of winter, resulting in horrific injuries? All that not for land, but simply for the elimination of their race?
And all of that under the direct support of a major world power?[/QUOTE]
Yeah we pretty much did all of that, perhaps not experimentation and body burning, but we pretty much went and fucked up everything and massacred villages that were in the way or that we just didn't like, also go look up "The Trail of Tears"
i used to play beat the jew when i was a kid
i was always the jew and i never really wanted to play though
[QUOTE=Zatharon;22433377]Yeah we pretty much did all of that, perhaps not experimentation and body burning, but we pretty much went and fucked up everything and massacred villages that were in the way or that we just didn't like, also go look up "The Trail of Tears"[/QUOTE]
I'd say that massacre isn't as bad as imprisonment, torture, and massacre.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433322]So we rounded up all of the Indians into camps with the intent of killing them to the last man, killing infants and the elderly and then subjecting those able to work to horrific experimentations that left them as rotting husks? Did we then force others of them at gunpoint to haul off the decaying bodies and burn them? Then did we force them to march through the dead of winter, resulting in horrific injuries? All that not for land, but simply for the elimination of their race?
And all of that under the direct support of a major world power?[/QUOTE]
pretty much yeah.
A couple of world powers too, not just one.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;22433402]pretty much yeah.
A couple of world powers too, not just one.[/QUOTE]
no, no they did not
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433360]Tell me how it was worse.[/QUOTE]
Cause I'm 1/4 native american. (legally, at least)
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;22433401][QUOTE=Zatharon;22433377]Yeah we pretty much did all of that, perhaps not experimentation and body burning, but we pretty much went and fucked up everything and massacred villages that were in the way or that we just didn't like, also go look up "The Trail of Tears"[/QUOTE]
I'd say that massacre isn't as bad as imprisonment, torture, and massacre.[/QUOTE]
That's like saying missing one leg is better than missing both.
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