ADD Organization Under Scrutiny for Poorly Named ‘Concentration Camp’
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Look Here-Shiny Things! Association (LHSTA), a Lakeview-based nonprofit organization that provides assistance to children afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), was forced to shut down their two-week retreat for ADD sufferers due to the insensitive naming of their camp.
“I am outraged that they never even considered the Holocaust when organizing this event,” said Jewish Defense League (JDL) Morton Stienstein. “It’s a slap in the face to Jews across the nation and the entire community of Barrington."
“’Concentration Camp’ was meant to be a place for children suffering from ADD to come and learn how to train their brain to focus so they can improve their grades and avoid incessant comparisons to Corky Thatcher,” said LHSTA board member Amy McDowell. “Don’t get me wrong, I love the goofy “Life Goes On” character as much as the next girl. But these kids aren’t ‘tards’.”
“The blatant disregard for naming their camp after the genocide of six million European Jews only shows the ignorance of the association’s leaders,” contends Stienstein, “And we demanded that they immediately shut down the camp and will also seek legal compensation for the pain they’ve brought upon the Jewish community."
When asked about the pending legal action facing the LHSTA, McDowell simply responded, “typical” and was quick to point out that victims of the Holocaust also included 200,000–250,000 physically and mentally disabled people.
“Hey, ADD-inflicted people were also executed during that time,” said McDowell. “They killed hundreds of thousands of handicapped and learning-disabled people. Granted, they were probably Jewish as well, but still.”
McDowell stated that the “litigious” JDL was being “overly sensitive” to what she views as a series of coincidences that were in no way intended to mock or reference the Holocaust.
McDowell detailed the activities she had planned for the now defunct Concentration Camp, which included a fun, interactive improv session for the kids to be held in a special cabin on the north end of the wooded campus.
“I was really looking forward to that one. We had a sketch comedy troupe scheduled to appear and everything,” said McDowell. “That really would’ve been a gas! That’s why we were going to call the cabin ‘The Gas Chamber.’”
