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Jewish dad questions homework assignment, gets investigated for being a 'neo-Nazi'By Todd StarnesTodd's American DispatchPublished November 06, 2013FoxNews.comJosh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., wants to know why the president of the local teacher’s union thinks he’s a neo-Nazi after he complained about a classroom assignment that he believed to be biased.“I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,” Barry told me in a telephone interview. “I am the furthest thing from a neo-Nazi.”Last week, his daughter’s eighth grade American History class at East Pennsboro Middle School was asked to analyze a New York Times story about the recent government shutdown.Barry, who said he is a registered independent, read the story and then read a list of questions his daughter was required to answer and he immediately determined the assignment was “grossly slanted.”The worksheet included questions like “To what issue do House Republican leaders insist on tying the federal budget?” and “Whom do you hold most responsible for the government shutdown?”{{SNIP}}“The objective was not to promote any political agenda but to work on non-fiction reading skills,” the teacher wrote in an email obtained by Fox News.Barry was not satisfied with the explanation.“You will not indoctrinate my child,” he wrote. “If you are going to present articles with a slant to one side you are morally and ethically required to present the opposing views, to give an opportunity for the student, your captive audience, to come to their own conclusions.”
“I’m Jewish and my wife is half-black, half-white,”
It's meant to sharpen the incongruity of the moment. You're right though - it's offered as an inoculating agent (blacks can't be racist; Jews can't be antisemitic, etc). Remarkable (remarkably sad) how many buy that crap.
Teacher is the fascist, as usual the trash calling people a Nazi is a Nazi themselves!
