Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-5-2010

[andrewducker]

• The way most people stretch before exercise? Not right at all...
  (tags: exercise health fitness sports science)
• Don't Call The Guatemala Sinkhole a Sinkhole - the entire city is on a layer of ash and pumice that could be washed away at any point...
  (tags: science geology nature environment sinkhole guatemala)
• When your gaming session ends in a real-life arrest...
  (tags: police gaming EpicFail)
• Calif. students apologize for 'Beat the Jew' chase game
  Well, I was amused.
  (tags: Jews bigotry EpicFail funny)
• Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!
  (tags: feminism crime rape funny satire)
• Three Simple Rules for life
  (tags: life advice)
• Shofar Hero
  (tags: funny game music)
• The Value of Ideas
  (tags: business inspiration ideas)
• Debrahlee Lorenzana sues Citigroup, claims bank fired her for being too sexy
  (tags: sexism society)

Comments

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Calif. students apologize for 'Beat the Jew' chase game -- Well, I was amused.

why was this amusing and funny, and not horrific to you?

[andrewducker]

It's not horrific to me because it seems to have happened without malice. They were playing a silly game that they stupidly associated with a real world event/people. They got stopped by the police (rightly) and I'm glad they aren't doing it any more, but no actual bigotry seems to have been intended. I'm glad that they've been told that they were being insensitive. I was amused by the whole situation because of its sheer ridiculousness - it reminded me of things like the "Throw the Jew Down The Well" song in Borat. Had they been a bunch of racists who were deliberately trying to cause distress then my feelings would have been much stronger.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

It's not horrific to me because it seems to have happened without malice. [...] ... but no actual bigotry seems to have been intended.

wut

(question: are you jewish?)

[andrewducker]

Yes, I am.

If you read the article there are the two quotes:
"Many of the students, all of whom participated willingly, said they played without knowing the name of the game; others didn't think about its insensitive nature."
and
"They just played a game that had an ugly, insensitive, stupid name."

That pretty much sums it up for me.

Lots of people do stupid things because they don't think about the meaning/consequence of them. I get a lot more offended by people who are acting maliciously.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

you do know that the part of california (where i'm from and where i lived) is a hotbed of racism and white supremacy, right?

maybe it's because i know what's going on there and the racial climate in this country that i take it more seriously than you and don't just think of it as "fun and games"