An Arizona mother said she hopes cruel birthday cupcakes given to her teenage daughter will become a "teachable moment" about the Holocaust.
日前，一位来自亚利桑那州的母亲声称，自己女儿的生日纸杯蛋糕可作为大屠杀的"教材"。
Deborah Muller, of Paradise Valley, said her daughter's 14th birthday party this month included cupcakes that guests were allowed to frost.
这位来自天堂谷、名叫黛博拉·穆勒的女性表示，在女儿14岁生日宴会上有一些纸杯蛋糕，客人可以在上面撒糖装饰。
Two girls, who Muller said are friends of her daughter, decorated cupcakes with chocolate swastikas, even though the birthday girl is Jewish.
女儿的两个朋友全然不顾女儿是犹太人，用巧克力在蛋糕上撒了纳粹的万字标志。

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.
穆勒在脸书上一条已经删除的推文称，女孩们只是觉得这样很好玩。她还表示，孩子们在学校都学过犹太人大屠杀，都知道这个符号的寓意。
"It's not a hate crime," Muller said. She added she was nevertheless "pissed off."
穆勒称："这不是仇恨性的犯罪。"并且自己也"不生气"。
The girls apologized for their tasteless joke, Muller said in another Facebook post since made private.
穆勒在另一篇脸书私人推文上表示，那两名女孩已为她们无聊的玩笑道了歉。
Using hate symbols in attempts at jokes sends a bad message, according to anti-defamation advocates.
不过反诽谤支持者却表示，用恶意符号开玩笑会传达恶性信息。
"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.
亚利桑那州反诽谤联盟负责人卡洛斯·加林多说道："当你用诸如万字之类的符号开玩笑时，这些符号会普遍化，人们也会逐渐对它们习以为常。"