{"id":165,"date":"2003-10-01T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2003-10-01T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T12:38:46","slug":"glorifying-nazis-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Glorifying Nazis in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/000164.html\">this post<\/a> I mentioned the November release of the video game Manhunt, which incorporates Nazi images and applies them to the &#8216;bad guys&#8217; in a violent, militia-minded game.<\/p>\n<p>In that announcement from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/news\/article_tol.jsp?id=867\">Tolerance.org<\/a> is the following statement from Eric Ward of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcomm.org\/\">Center for New Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;This is a sign of where society is on the impact of hate and bigotry. We&#8217;re seeing the trappings of it in the mainstream.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Why the trend to glorify Nazis?<\/p>\n<p><b>Texas school apologizes for Nazi display by band<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/famulus.msnbc.com\/famulusgen\/reuters09-30-201839.asp?t=renew&#038;vts=10120030412\">DALLAS, Sept. 30 <\/a>? The Paris, Texas, school district apologized Tuesday for a performance by one of its marching bands which played an Adolf Hitler anthem and waved a Nazi flag during a football halftime show.<\/p>\n<p>Band director Charles Grissom said the song and flag were part of a musical performance called &#8221;Visions of World War Two&#8221;. It was performed at a Dallas high school Friday, which was also Rosh Hashana, the start of the Jewish new year and one of the holiest days on the Jewish calendar. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The performance is an attempt to factually portray the history of World War Two, triumph of good over evil, and to honor our veterans for their sacrifices in ensuring freedom throughout the world,&#8221; Grissom said in a statement. He added later that he made a major mistake in judgment. <\/p>\n<p>The performance was greeted by heavy boos at the Hillcrest High School in Dallas, and several objects were hurled at the band.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The band will continue to perform the composition but will only have the United States flag on display.<\/p>\n<p>If I were in the crowd that would give me the impression the US has now adopted it as its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post I mentioned the November release of the video game Manhunt, which incorporates Nazi images and applies them to the &#8216;bad guys&#8217; in a violent, militia-minded game. In that announcement from Tolerance.org is the following statement from Eric &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}