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Your description sounds to me like a team that's actually super racist, but I disagree with you.

They used "Nazi" as a playcall against a team consisting primarily of Jewish kids. That means that, even if it was a student's idea, the coaches knew about it beforehand, approved the idea, and shared the call with all of the players. And that's the most generous possible assumption. Every player on the field in the play needs to know what the playcall means. It's not just something people shout out in the middle of a game. More likely it came from the coaches, but you're right that we don't know that for sure.

Either way, the adults should have known better.

"They were just pretending to be racist and antisemitic"

Yeah, that makes it better...

The "don't be so sensitive, it's only a joke" thing is how a lot of people start off as racists. When you minimize those things the step to full blown KKK is an easier one.

Fake racism and real racism towards strangers. What's the difference?

If it happened once, you'd be right. Sometimes kids have the wrong idea of what is appropriate, and when they err it's important to set them straight immediately.

But doing that for most of the half? Yeah, that coach knew it. And we shouldn't let the fact that they're kids let any of them "it's just a joke, bro" out of it.

I think you may be right if the kids were younger.

My father was in the RAF in WWII. He was literally bombed by the Germans.

We moved to the States when I was six and I started school here in 1969. In second or third grade some friends and I learned how to draw swastikas. We sorta maybe knew they were the emblem of the German military, but beyond that we were ignorant. I got out my crayons and drew them in many colors all over my school notebook.

I took that notebook home to show my parents this cool thing I had learned. Neither of them said a thing, but my mother bought me a brand new notebook.

I look back on that with so much shame. Even without knowing the depth of meaning to that symbol, I had not put together that this was the symbol of a military that had done its best to kill my father, his family, and had succeeded in killing thousands and thousands of his countrymen.

Now, knowing full-well what that symbol means, the shame is deeper.

All that said, I was eight or nine so my ignorance might be excusable. I'm unsure that it is for high schoolers.

nice try. playcalls come from the coaching staff, not the kids.

I wonder if you'd have the same opinion if the opposing team was black and the team in question were shouting plays using KKK or confederate shit.

They clearly are a racist team, considering the article explicitly states that players kept being racist little shits after they stopped using the Nazi call:

However, several Brooklyn players continued to direct racial slurs at Beachwood players during the game, the statement read.

Clearly those players just wanted to have fun saying inappropriate things and are just trying to be inflammatory /s

Those are the same thing.

I find it hard to believe every player was ok with it. How many kids do you think were told "No, no, no, we are calling Not Z. Using Nazi would be wrong."

I still think they should end the season for the whole team as a way to say this crap is inconceivable.

Racism is an action word. If you do a racism, you're a racist.