New Brunswick, NJ – Rutgers University is investigating a student newspaper’s spoof column praising Adolf Hitler as a potential bias incident.
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The column “What about the good things Hitler did?” appeared last week in the satirical newspaper the Daily Medium, which is funded in part by Rutgers. The column was falsely attributed to a Jewish student writer for an independent Rutgers newspaper, the Daily Targum.
Student writer Aaron Marcus tells WWOR-TV that publication of the piece under his name was hurtful. He says his relatives died in the Holocaust.
Rutgers President Richard McCormick says the article was “particularly despicable” considering Marcus’ Jewish faith.
The Medium’s faculty adviser tells The Star-Ledger he hopes whatever action Rutgers takes shows understanding that college is a time when people test boundaries and can learn from their mistakes.
i don’t know how a person can write this, Hitler killed 6000000 Jews r’l and you ask good things about Hitler!
He did 1 very good thing: took his own despicable, cursed life, y”s v’zichro.
The Medium’s faculty adviser tells The Star-Ledger he hopes whatever action Rutgers takes shows understanding that college is a time when people test boundaries and can learn from their mistakes.
stupid, this was hurtful since they attributed it to a Jewish student
The only good thing Hitler Ym”s did was drop dead.
No comments. As long liberals and democrats run this country
The only good thing he could have done is killed himself ten years before.
Not to be called stupid. Or anything like that but what does gam zu letova stand for?
Last week was April Fool’s Day; while this was in *appallingly* bad taste, I don’t perceive it as a rising tide of anti-Semitism at Rutgers. Hopefully the newspaper is now more certain of the boundaries of civil discourse.
I sincerely hope that the posters above protesting about this question don’t drive Volkswagon cars. This was Hitler’s car for the Deutche volk.
I personally don’t have a problem with the question. Who says a madman and a rosho can’t ever have done anything positive. If I say that Hitler’s economic policies benefitted his country and that the war jump started Germany’s current industrial superiority in many areas of manufacturing how does that take away from the fact that the man was a monster?