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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyregion/hasidic-yeshivas-schools-new-york.html
Holy shit.
So Hasidic schools in New York are collecting funds and exercising their religion. On the one hand it seems concerning, maybe things need to change but on the other hand this seems bigoted as all get out. They have been doing the same thing in Utah in some of their settlements , in Amish country and some rural places and collecting tons of federal and state money for YEARS. They even call it milking the beast.
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OK, the article was pay walled, so didn't read it.
Having grown up in the midwest, I recall it being a near-monthly tradition for assholes to spray paint swastikas & slurs on Yeshiva schools & the JCC; that shit costs money to remove.
Do Amish & other schools endure the same perpetual harassment? Asking, as I honestly don't know.
And FTR, having no kids, I have no real skin in the game, so to speak. @Render might have more recent info on the topic.
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@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @Render
Also FTR, it wasn't just spray paint that was the worst of it.
I also recall it happening in...Maryland, IIRC, where some neonazi skinheads (they got caught later) broke in & vandalized the entire school. The incident I'm thinking of was in the 1980s/1990s, I think.
No idea how much it cost to fix, but was surely non-trivial.
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