"Almost more shocking than the news of Duxbury High School’s football team using terms like “rabbi” and “Auschwitz” for its line-of-scrimmage audible play calling is the fact that it apparently was not a new thing.
The Boston Herald reports that “the use of anti-Semitic and other offensive language by Duxbury players and under the purview of the coaching staff has been going on for multiple years.” Yet nothing had been done to stop the practice of teenage quarterbacks barking out the name of a death camp where 1 million Jews were slaughtered until officials from Plymouth North High School blew the whistle following their team’s March 12 game against the Dragons."
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Boston Globe recap of Duxbury (subscription may be required)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/24/sports/what-we-know-about-duxbury-football-teams-holocaust-related-play-calls/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/24/sports/what-we-know-about-duxbury-football-teams-holocaust-related-play-calls/
Boston Herald article on Duxbury
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/03/25/duxbury-footballs-anti-semitic-play-calls-massachusetts-state-house-push-for-holocaust-genocide-education/
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