[Tammy Bruce-Wash Times] Last week the local news team at a Chicago television station shockingly used a Nazi symbol used to identify and isolate Jews as their graphic for their coverage of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.The badge used in the picture above the anchor's left shoulder is the infamous Nazi badge of the Star of David with the word "Jude" in the middle, German for "Jew." While the Nazis required all Jews to wear the identifying symbol, the picture WGN aired was of the badge on the blue and white striped concentration camp prisoner uniform.
In these days of unabashed Jew-hatred wrought by Islamist tyrants, and our own president and the Democratic Party fostering an increasingly hostile attitude toward Israel, an initial reaction that this might have been a deliberate act is understandable.
Yet, that wasn't the case. WGN issued an apology in part noting, "Regrettably, we failed to recognize that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol. We are extremely embarrassed and we deeply apologize to our viewers and to the Jewish community for this mistake. Ignorance is not an excuse. Please know we are reviewing our in house policies and changes have already been made to make sure a hurtful oversight like this never happens again."
I believe them, and it sounds like someone lost their job.
The truth of the matter, and frightening in its own context, is this debacle illustrates learned ignorance, the hallmark of liberal control of our public school system and the academy.