It's that fucking time of year again.

[attackfish]

There are billboards up everywhere advertizing a Christian Seder being held at the Von Braun Center.  Yes, let's just appropriate Jewish religion and culture and the act out the deeply sacred traditions of a religious group that has faced thousands of years of persecution at the hands of Christians, and let's do it in a building named after a Nazi!  I think profanity is an entirely appropriate response, no?

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[elrhiarhodan]

Jaw hits floor.

[ljlee.livejournal.com]

Captain Sisko says it all.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. It's offensive. It's evil. It's wrong. If they don't understand that Jews were murdered en masse for blood libels on this holiday, they don't get it.

I am working with a pastor who wants to do it appropriately with appropriating and we're designing a poverty seder, where they learn about Jewish traditions in a fun lecture, and then raise money for a social justice cause, such as human trafficking, poverty relief and the dignity of every person. There will be some readings from the Hagaddah but the idea of it is using it as a gathering to represent the spirit of the holiday in a universal sense.

[lokifan]

The VON BRAUN Center? For REAL? What the shit.