玩笑開過了! 猶太女孩的生日蛋糕上出現納粹符號!

An Arizona mother said she hopes cruel birthday cupcakes given to her teenage daughter will become a "teachable moment" about the Holocaust.

日前，一位來自亞利桑那州的母親聲稱，自己女兒的生日紙杯蛋糕可作爲大屠殺的"教材"。

Deborah Muller, of Paradise Valley, said her daughter's 14th birthday party this month included cupcakes that guests were allowed to frost.

這位來自天堂谷、名叫黛博拉·穆勒的女性表示，在女兒14歲生日宴會上有一些紙杯蛋糕，客人可以在上面撒糖裝飾。

Two girls, who Muller said are friends of her daughter, decorated cupcakes with chocolate swastikas, even though the birthday girl is Jewish.

女兒的兩個朋友全然不顧女兒是猶太人，用巧克力在蛋糕上撒了納粹的萬字標誌。

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Muller said in a now-deleted Facebook post that the girls told her they did it to "be funny." She said the teens all recently learned about the Holocaust in school, and were aware of the symbol's meaning.

穆勒在臉書上一條已經刪除的推文稱，女孩們只是覺得這樣很好玩。她還表示，孩子們在學校都學過猶太人大屠殺，都知道這個符號的寓意。

"It's not a hate crime," Muller said. She added she was nevertheless "pissed off."

穆勒稱："這不是仇恨性的犯罪。"並且自己也"不生氣"。

The girls apologized for their tasteless joke, Muller said in another Facebook post since made private.

穆勒在另一篇臉書私人推文上表示，那兩名女孩已爲她們無聊的玩笑道了歉。

Using hate symbols in attempts at jokes sends a bad message, according to anti-defamation advocates.

不過反誹謗支持者卻表示，用惡意符號開玩笑會傳達惡性信息。

"When you joke with symbols like the swastika, you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society," Carlos Galindo, director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, told KPNX.

亞利桑那州反誹謗聯盟負責人卡洛斯·加林多說道："當你用諸如萬字之類的符號開玩笑時，這些符號會普遍化，人們也會逐漸對它們習以爲常。"