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 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.

  • Serinus@lemmy.world
    515·
    3 days ago

    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.