A student at a San Jose high school posted a photo of eight students lying in the shape of a swastika on a football field
A photo of eight students lying in the shape of a swastika on a high school football field in San Jose, California, has caused shock and outrage among the Bay Area Jewish community.
A Branham high school student posted the photo to social media on 3 December, and included an antisemitic quote from Adolf Hitler in the caption. A screenshot of the post began circulating on Reddit last Thursday and garnered more than 500 comments. The post and the account were removed by Instagram by Friday morning, according to J., the Jewish News of Northern California.
The school’s principal, Beth Silbergeld, told the Guardian in a written statement that the social media post was reported to an anonymous tip line on Wednesday evening.
Stick them in a room and make them watch WWII and concentration camp documentaries for 8hrs… Then to it again
Then the nuremburg trials.
Idea good I like
Most likely the kids did this because it’s edgy, not because they’re really hardcore into Nazi ideology.
These kids know what the Holocaust was. Someone should explain to them that it’s coming back. For a few people, it’s already here, but it’s coming for more. They need to be sat down for a real history lesson. And they need to understand that there is very little in the way of the world repeating that history, or worse.
They should understand that they need to be more worried if they don’t get in much trouble, not less. They need to understand how jokes and pranks provide cover and acceptance for these kinds of things. They need to understand that their jokes are not actually harmless, because they pave the way for people to actually believe and do these things while believing they’ll have a group that accepts them for it.
And hopefully, on top of all that, they’ll still see some kind of punishment. Not enough to ruin their lives, because they are dumb kids being dumb, but enough to discourage this from spreading.
There are plenty of dedicated young Nazis around. I hope you’re right.
And worse, they’re on the rise. Neonazis know kids are easy to flip, even more now with the way things are now.
I dunno, I’ve been to San Jose
Oh, but it’s ok now, folks. The Trump administration says the swastika isn’t a hate symbol anymore…so, it’s all good.
attributed the incident in part to a lack of proper Holocaust education and historical context on hate symbols, such as the swastika. “We have absolute faith that if the district takes actual measures to teach students the right lessons about being inclusive and anti-hate, that Jews are a minority that deserve compassion and understanding and deserve to be equal to everyone else in this education system, then that would be a huge step towards tomorrow’s society,” she said.
No, I’m afraid not. They’ve likely been preemptively inoculated against lessons by anti-intellectual sentiment, lessons will not cut it. They won’t trust anything that might be attributable to a “deep state”.
You need a more natural, more grounded style of communication if you want to have a chance.
Get their names & photos, put them on a list and never hire these people ever.
People, especially young people who are still learning what it means to be a person living in a society, deserve a second chance, and sometimes a third. This whole thing is disgusting, and as the grandchild of holocaust survivors I really struggle to not let these displays of bigotry completely ruin me, but your idea is also pretty upsetting.
People can and do change their beliefs, especially at the age these offenders are. I thought some pretty nasty things in high school that make me look back in shame. But I’m not that person anymore. I grew up, like most humans do. These students deserve to be punished, but that punishment needs to be serious education about why what they did was so awful. Putting them on a blacklist doesn’t help anyone, but it would help their hatred fester.
We could deport them they way they have decided to “deport” all the brown people they are bigoted against. I have no sympathy for these racist freaks. They deserve all the public shaming we can give them. Educating bigots is fruitless 90% of the time. These people hate “woke” but can’t even tell you what “woke” is. And they designated Antifa as a “terrorist” organization, that they can’t even tell you who heads it, where it’s located, or what they have done to earn the designation of “terrorist”. And yet these nazis kidnap people off the streets of America. Who are the terrorists? Some people will change when they grow up. But the deep seated hatred & bigotry many display is something most of them will not “grow” out of. Racism is an illness, a cult, and one of the stupidest things Humans participate in.
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