johnskylar:concentratedridiculousness:angryjewishharpist:no-good-nik:MADISON, Wis. -More than two do
johnskylar:concentratedridiculousness:angryjewishharpist:no-good-nik:MADISON, Wis. -More than two dozen Madison families woke up to vulgar language and ethnic and racial slurs spray-painted on their property Saturday.At least 30 west side homes – including garage doors, driveways and vehicles - were vandalized overnight, according to Madison Police Officer David Dexheimer. The complaints came from areas west of Gammon Road, including Colony Drive, Millstone Road, Harvest Hill Road and others. The damage is estimated at well over $10,000.“I think we’re talking about felony types of damage,” Dexheimer said.While most of the damage included profane language and explicit drawings, several contained racially-based and anti-Semitic slurs and swastikas. Some of that property damage, located on Brule Circle, has neighbors in the community calling the incident a hate crime.“Everyone in the neighborhood is pretty upset,” says Jim Stein, a neighbor who has lived on the street for 18 years.Stein woke up Saturday morning to see “F—- Jews” written on a garage door right across the street. Later in the day, once the snow cleared, a swastika was visible on the driveway."It was, of course, extremely disturbing to me,” said Stein, who is the president of the Jewish Federation of Madison. “This is anti-Semitic to the extent people feel comfortable equating Jewish people or the Jewish religion with sexual terms and sexual parts of people’s bodies.”Madison officers say the case is not being considered a hate crime at this point.“It just looks like it’s malicious damage,” Dexheimer said. “While some of the things painted were troubling, we don’t know that was specifically targeted to a particular victim.”Jim Stein isn’t convinced. He says the vulgar language and swastika just across the street are too close for comfort.“To me, that reeks of anti-Semitism, and that’s an important wake-up call for the city of Madison,” he says.This happened within a mile or two of where I live. This is basically being treated as a blurb by local news and as you can see, local law enforcement (and several local news sources) are treating it like regular graffiti and that any racial components or antisemitism as just sort of there and sure, it’s ‘troubling’, but clearly not troubling enough to treat as a potential hate crime.Typical Madison.I want to emphasize again how much I hate living in the Diaspora. I’m just thankful that it hadn’t happened in my neighborhood, especially since we have a mezuzah outside our door :/“not a hate crime”Someone tagged TWO DOZEN HOMES with antisemitic slurs and SWASTIKAS and this is somehow “not a hate crime?” actually it’s about ethics in parking dispute journalism -- source link
#antisemitism#jfc