Tuesday, February 25, 2020

This Is Unbelievable

I've seen a lot in my life, but I am still trying to process this story:
At a carnival procession in Spain, participants dressed like Nazis and Jewish concentration camp prisoners while dancing next to a float evoking crematoria.

A video of the procession shows the participants marching in their fake Nazi uniforms. Behind them, dancers wearing striped outfits evoking concentration camp uniforms followed while waving flags of Israel. They were followed by the float shaped like a train locomotive with two large chimneys.

On Sunday, a carnival procession in Aalst, Belgium, featured costumes of ultra-Orthodox Jews depicted as ants. Dozens of other participants wore fake hooked noses based on Jewish stereotypes.
And here's the kicker:
The group that created the float said it was meant to protest the rising cost of living.

4 comments:

  1. Spain, well, but Belgium? The EU needs to stage an intervention. How could anyone, including event organizers, not realize this is unconscionable? Is Europe falling back into a dark place again? This isn't Poland or Hungary or eastern Germany.

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    1. I am entirely flummoxed by this, Mound. And I thought I had seen everything.

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  2. I am equally flummoxed, Lorne. We're worried about the coronavirus. But insanity has also gone viral.

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    1. There are days when I feel I have lived too long, Owen.

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