Skip to comments.
High School Censors Swastikas [tr]
Reason ^
| Mar. 13, 2016
| Robby Soave
Posted on 03/14/2016 8:50:40 PM PDT by sparklite2
High School Censors Swastikas, Missing Entire Point of Satirical Anti-Nazi Play, The Producers
Administrators have ordered the removal of swastikas from a high school production of The Producers, the famous Mel Brooks film that makes fun of Nazism.
The New York school district that oversees Tappan Zee High School considers the inclusion of a swastika to be offensive and, possibly, a hate crimeregardless of the context.
There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate, South Orangetown Superintendent Bob Pritchard told the local CBS station.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: censorship
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
"In God We Trust""You owe me an apology."
To: sparklite2
Satire will be a crime soon.
2
posted on
03/14/2016 8:53:03 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: sparklite2
"Remember kids, dressing up like Hitler in school, isn't cool."
3
posted on
03/14/2016 8:55:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: sparklite2
4
posted on
03/14/2016 9:04:06 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: sparklite2
The local high school recently put on the play To Kill A Mockingbird...none of the language was censored. I was surprised. And in the scene with the mad dog, it looked like the prop was a real rifle - again a surprise because in prior years prop guns have been brightly colored toys.
5
posted on
03/14/2016 9:05:41 PM PDT
by
lacrew
To: sparklite2
To: sparklite2
There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate, South Orangetown Superintendent Bob Pritchard told the local CBS station Really Bob? How about history? You know, that subject where you can learn that the swastika was a symbol of good fortune for FIVE THOUSAND YEARS before a Nazi maniac got hold of it? You do actually TEACH things in your SCHOOL district, right Bob? Hello, Bob? Are you there, Bob?
7
posted on
03/14/2016 9:10:13 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: sparklite2
It's not that I condone censorship of this type, but I am wondering why they would choose to put this play on in the first place. The humor is pretty adult... not dirty... but requires an amount of sophistication that generally comes with age. It is funny, but it's not slapstick.
That said, if they chose the play, they should put it on properly.
8
posted on
03/14/2016 9:12:10 PM PDT
by
TontoKowalski
(Satisfied Customer #291)
To: lacrew
I was pleasantly shocked by NBC Saturday evening when they ran a hour of a Saturday Night Live episode from when Norm MacDonald was prominent on the show. They actually included a bit from the SNL “news” segment that got Norm fired from the show when a West Coast VP saw it being broadcast.
It’s where Norm, the “news anchor,” looks right in the camera and said, “You know [President] Clinton’s a murderer, right?”
It was awesome.
9
posted on
03/14/2016 9:14:18 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
We stayed in this building back in 1956. It was a hotel in Farmington NM. It is still there.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Internet connections must have been really slow in 1956. ;)
11
posted on
03/14/2016 9:22:33 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
To: sparklite2
Wonder if anyone thought to axe Bob Pritchard what he thought of the Trump Free Speech curbstomping this last week?
Was it "OK" because the Fascists weren't wearing swastikas?...
12
posted on
03/14/2016 9:57:14 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Chicago, March 2016: The Delphi Technique in action...)
To: sparklite2; Ruy Dias de Bivar
Internet connections must have been really slow in 1956. ;) sparklite - you're not trashing an FR "56er", are you? :)
13
posted on
03/14/2016 10:02:33 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Chicago, March 2016: The Delphi Technique in action...)
To: sparklite2
As a Buddhist I am deeply offended at their bigotry and racism!
14
posted on
03/14/2016 10:54:03 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: kiryandil
A Nazi without a swastika......is still a Nazi.....
A swastika without a Nazi......is just a swastika
15
posted on
03/14/2016 11:23:58 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
To: sparklite2
“Superintendent Pritchard is on his way from the
cafeteria to the library. Somebody hide the `Huckleberry
Finn’ books!”
16
posted on
03/14/2016 11:24:55 PM PDT
by
Sivad
(NorCal flyover country)
To: sparklite2
High schoolers aren't children: presumably they can participate in a play that concerns Nazism without somehow coming away from it thinking Nazism is good. Similarly, can't the play show a swastika without anyone mistakenly believing the school is endorsing the symbolA "journalist" that accepts freedom of thought? Young adults might not need to be told what to think? Tell me I'm not dreaming!.
Then again, there's the whole blind squirrel thing...
17
posted on
03/15/2016 2:53:52 AM PDT
by
Don W
( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: sparklite2
There is no context in a public high school where a swastika is appropriate, said somebody in charge of a place where history will no longer be taught, I guess.
18
posted on
03/15/2016 2:55:40 AM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
To: sparklite2
Oh, was that it! I thought it was the F-bomb he dropped during the “fake news”.
19
posted on
03/15/2016 2:57:17 AM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
To: sparklite2
Bwahahaha! I know that Superintendent from (his) two jobs prior... If you ever meet a guy named Bob Pritchard and having never known him before he tells you he's a member of Mensa for no reason within two minutes of meeting him you've found the right guy! He's self-absorbed, thinks he's the most important person in the world, and I believe may be under investigation at his old job. Now if he's so intelligent how would he not know their would be Swastikas in The Producers? There's a bunch of Nazis and Hitler but he only finds the insignia offensive? Then again he has no sense of satire and no sense of humor. I don't know how they caught him in the video looking like he did, He looks overweight and run down and not dressed well. He also usually has his round little glasses on to look intellectual. He looks like a drunken version of himself, but what does he care he's probably still pocketing at least $150,000 or more a year from the taxpayers.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson