May 8, 2018

USA: Man Who Filmed Himself Harassing A Hasidic Jewish Boy This Past Weekend And This Video Went Viral On Social Media, Apologizes In Twitter Video Today. Now This Took Real Courage. Humility. 👏💖

A disturbing video showing a young Chassidic boy being ridiculed with foul language about his looks has gone viral, drawing condemnation of the person who filmed it. . The clip showed the boy walking down what seemed to be a street in Brooklyn and being met at an adult ranting about his haircut - a shaved head under the kippah and long payos, a typical Chassidic look. . The video was viewed well over 1 million times, before being deleted from Facebook and Twitter - although it still remains on Reddit titled "Guy makes fun of Hasidic child." . The Jerusalem Post identified the adult as Quai James who first posted it on Facebook on Saturday. . "Had to really let my son know how i felt about the whole Jewish Haircut... Pray for the lil homie," James first wrote. He later edited the post, and removed the word Jewish from the caption. Link to the full story in our bio - What do you guys think, Anti-Semitic or just mean?
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The Daily Wire
written by Emily Zannoti
Tuesday March 8, 2018

"I’m truly sorry for my actions."

A man who filmed himself harassing and belittling a small Hasidic Jewish child over his traditional haircut has posted a second video — this time apologizing profusely for his first brush with viral fame.

The man, known on Twitter as "Quai James," says in the video that he is "truly sorry" for his actions and that he would like to "sincerely apologize to that young boy and his family." He calls the incident "just a joke," but admits that he was being "truly immature" and that the video was "one of the most immature videos [he'd] ever recorded.

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This is the second apology James has made. The first came on Twitter after the video was pulled down by moderators, who said they received thousands of complaints.
Twitter and Snapchat users were horrified by the video, which shows James confronting the boy, who is maybe only four or five years old, about his traditional Hasidic sidelocks.

“I’d be crying if I looked like that, too, bro,” James is heard telling the boy, who starts to cry. “That’s f–ked up what they be doing to you.”

The child, apparently too scared to move, stands in front of James while James continues to make fun of his hair. “You probably had the full wash and set — they should be fired if they ain’t cut your sh-t. F–k it, though, bro, it’s your life.”

The video garnered more than a million views across social media — and more than 100,000 likes — before Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat finally obeyed users and removed it. The first reactions to the video were actually positive, with some Twitter users laughing at the poor child as he endured a torrent of verbal abuse. Other users quickly pointed out that not only was the video disturbing, but it was virulently anti-Semitic and even dangerous in light of other recent attacks on young Jewish men in NYC neighborhoods.

Snapchat removed the video within 24 hours. It took hundreds of complaints to get Twitter and Facebook to do the same. Facebook did not remove the video until Monday morning, insisting over the weekend that the video did not run afoul of their "community standards."

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