What deranged high school educator could possibly think that this would be in good taste:
The Blue Blazes Band would perform a historically accurate show titled “Visions of World War II” featuring flags and music to represent the combating nations.
It would include a student running across the field with a Nazi flag and the tune composed by Franz Joseph Haydn that later became “Deutschland Uber Alles.”
Mr. Grissom didn’t anticipate the response his group received while performing at Hillcrest High School on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year.
You want to accuse these people of spreading hate or of being bigots but you can’t even do that. The most you can accuse them of is sheer, utter, total stupidity. I mean, a Nazi flag at a high school football game???
(Via Damian Penny).
I thought it was an example of politically-correct multiculturalism gone bad, myself. “Who are we to say the Nazis were evil, their culture is just as valid as the British or French”…something along those lines.
And on the Jewish New year, no less. Mel Brooks couldn’t have written it any better.
“I thought it was an example of politically-correct multiculturalism gone bad…” I think that’s pushing it.
As for the incident itself, I’d agree with Segacs. Sheer, utter, total stupidity. On Rosh Hashana? Fucked up.