Racist messages found at Air Force Academy Preparatory School
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http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/09/28/air-force-investigating-racist-graffiti-academy-prep-school.html
62 replies Air Force officials are investigating the use of racial slurs written on a dormitory white board at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School.
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@simba
I'm assuming you're not a part of any minority groups.
But guess what? Words hurt too. Sorry that minorities have feelings.
No it is not ok.
I wouldn't be cool with it but I guess feelings vary.
The military doesn't exactly attract a lot of deep thinkers, so you're going to hear stupid opinions on pretty much every topic. No race, ethnicity or religion was immune from being the target of a stupid opinion. It doesn't mean the institution as a whole has a major problem. While not perfect, the US military is one of the best integrated organizations in the country.
Here, it was a slur, written deliberately where the African American cadets lived. It was not something that comes out of the mouth of someone ignorant and thoughtless while chatting. It was premeditated and it was a threat.
In addition, you say "nobody ever treated me differently once they learned I was Jewish".... can you see the difference with what happened here? That is pretty much the OPPOSITE of what happened.
Have you listened to the Lt. Gal's response?
I believe you also have to nip anti-semitism in the bud. One would have to have their head in the sand to not notice the increase in public displays of anti-semitism in the last 2 years. For someone as mainstream and politically connected as Valerie Plame to feel comfortable tweeting out an article on Rosh Hashanah written by an anti-semite and calling it "thoughtful," you know there is a problem. Although I am no fan, I thought Alan Dershowitz's published response to her was right on target. The fallout just cost her a board seat.
And to say that the A-A cadets might have done it themselves? That too is deeply offensive.
I'd pay money to Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria to come and give these students a piece of his mind.
If this was not a threat (of course it was!), the question we should be asking is why the perpetrator(s) were so cocky as to think their "prank" was funny. Who did they think would join in the laughter? Who were they trying to entertain with this prank? Does it ever stop being funny, like when the prank is done repeatedly to the same kid or multiple kids?
It could easily have been some drunk kids with impaired faculties doing this on the spur of the moment, and they simply thought it was funny. Writing on a whiteboard doesn't take a lot of though or effort. Let's stop treating it like it's a cross burning.