Totally agree with you Erik. I see no reason why this should have any police action.
Well, we did post within seconds of each other!
I’m not a fan of doxxing but sometimes openly identifying and shaming is the only recourse. I know we had Nazis and Klansmen in this country long before Palin, let alone Mango Mussolini, but they used to be too embarrassed to express such things outside of the confines of their house or close circle of KKKomrades.
This is one segment of the population that I would encourage to go back into the closet.
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If it’s not reflective of the community, then why are all these students doing it?
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Exactly the case. Nowadays, it is SO important to make sure people (young or old) understand that certain images may very well stay with them throughout their lives. They can and do affect their futures in ways that they can’t see right now but will pop up again. At the worst possible times…
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And it wasn’t a professional photographer, it was the father of one of the kids,
If that’s true, and I believe it is, then he deserves to be crucified by every parent in that photo. He’s pretty much condemned these kids to have this hung around their necks for a very long time.
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The kid in the blue suit is the tell for me. That gesture and facial expression is textbook “kid weighing the bullying for not participating with the self-awareness that a Nazi salute is a really, really bad idea,”
Jordan Blue is a hero for his resistance in this photo and coming forward afterward. That kid in the blue suit is wishing he had done the same in hindsight, i’ll bet.
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What does the sign in the middle say? AllI can read is “Notice” and “only.”
But yeah, the “wave to your family” excuse is patent BS. As someone noted above, the guy in the front in the middle is doing that same white power sign that the Kavenaugh female did during his hearing. It’s also been reported that when the photo was originally posted, one of the guys wrote that “we even got the black kid to throw up [the salute].” So they knew exactly what they were doing and clearly thought it was hilarious.
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Or mimicking Laura Ingraham
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I read yesterday that the photographer’s wife was a school teacher. Ugh.
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Preemptive failure of their college admissions process…
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O damn. I’m sorry to hear that.
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Please someone enlighten me here, I never did the prom thing.
- why are all these guys in their prom attire getting a group photo while not at prom?
- where are the girls’ photo
- this was taken almost a year ago, why is it surfacing now
- and after all most a year between photo and discovery why didn’t anyone talk about this
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They should be required to watch film of what the Allies found in the German concentration camps and to take and pass a civics class before receiving their high school diplomas.
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Yes they very well should.
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no way are they “waving”. They are all using the same arm and the same pattern and the same direction…unless they are waving in unison…and that aint happenin! If they were waving would they all have used the same right arm? If they were waving wouldnt there be randomness as far as direction of their “wave”…no…this is the nazi salute and judging from what is being said about that community and how the school board and school officials look the other way when bullying and racist comments are made pretty much defines that community…what a shame middle America is so fucked up, racists and “entitled”
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I can’t stress this enough, the first thing the new Democratic Congress needs to do is start committee work on the annual appropriations bills. The country desperately needs a break from peering into the septic tank and live tweeting every little turd.
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I only wish it was ‘was.’ Normally, I don’t hold one spouse responsible for the other spouse’s behavior but for this situation I’d make an exception, Anyone willing to tolerate this in a spouse has no business being in authority over children.
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Au contraire. The country needs a damned long good look in that septic tank and those turds aren’t so small.
This whole thing from start to finish needs to be remembered and I know being studied. This was America getting shifted away from democracy and we need to pay attention and his voters need their faces rubbed in it.
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There were pic with the girls in them in the same photoset (now taken down) on the neo Nazi photographer’s website.
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I keep thinking their must be an alternative explanation and that this is simply out of context, but so far, I haven’t found anything to suggest that is true. The boy in the top row, far right is not saluting and posted a statement which you can read here suggesting the salute was the idea of the photographer? And was intentional. WTF?
So let’s run down the photog and get him on the record explaining the photo.
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