4357

C’mon now, purple at least.

Other than that, Baraboo is a pretty liberal area. Interesting to see what the reasoning is behind the photo, but I doubt it was intended as a hateful message.

I would assume this is some high school boys doing some edgelord humor B.S.

4358

Uggh, that is awful

4359

It’d be interesting to find out how many future cops there are in that picture.

4360

I get the feeling that the kid up front doing the white power “OK” symbol and laughing his ass off is not going to have an empathetic epiphany when he hits 21.

4361

And the parents and officials might fall all over themselves excusing the behavior which means even if they take publicly, privately they get pats on their backs reinforcing their vile beliefs.

4362

Reading the replies to that tweet, I’m less inclined to believe this was edgy humor. There appears to be a widespread issue of racist behavior at that school.

4363

Is that a wealthy district? I looked through their school pics and school upgrades and they’re building out that school with stuff 99% of other public schools could only dream of.

4364

Definitely read the replies to that thread. A lot of people reached out saying they’ve been bully and harassed by kids in that photo and some even shared racist snaps from some of the kids pictured. It sounds like the school administration is sympathetic to the kids as well telling students who have complained to grow a thicker skin

4365

Suburby, town of 12k near WI Dells, has voted overwhelmingly blue in past, and during the 2018 midterms and voted for Hillary in 2016.

Well not as liberal as Madison and Dane Co, it is one of the more liberal areas of the state as a whole. It is also blindingly white, which probably feeds into the complete idiocy and ignorance of that photo.

4366

That is messed up. I hope they get to the bottom of how that happened and why they thought it could possibly be OK. Flashing the white power sign means they are well aware of what they’re doing (they’ve been watching the news). This was no “accident”. For a blue area, it just makes no sense - especially for no one to stand up and say “NO, don’t do this”.

4367

Poor child. I hope the parents become less shitty people very soon, OR they lose custody, either way.

BTW is Patatas a Greek last name or something (sounds Greek)? Because in (Peninsular) Spanish it means potatoes.

4368

Sounds Greek to me too. Lots of American Nazi types wouldn’t pass a Nazi racial purity test. I’ve read that the original requirement for membership in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang was that you had to be at least part Irish.

4369

Wtf is wrong with this school?

4370

Woot, woot! I’m qualified to join an exclusive club! Time to ambulate.

4371

I don’t know but I imagine some employers doing a deep dive on social media finding an applicant doing a sig heil here may find that interesting. If I were a parent of one of these I’d want to give him a few Stooges Moe-like slaps to the head.

So anyway, 1) Stupid male teens, a group notorious for being dumb and, 2) Privileged whites laughing about being racist, and 3) Some probably on the way to being drunk. That’s how I would explain it.

My hope is that for many this will be chalked up to the mistakes of youth and they might come round and be decent moderates or even liberals. When you’re in a big group like this at a social event like a prom, many who probably already have downed a few shots, it’s easy to be a lemming without thinking. I hope that is what that is for a lot of these kids.

4372

A leaked Discord server of the group “National Socialist Legion” sheds further light into the trajectory taken by neo-Nazi groups after the Charlottesville rally in 2017.

Unicorn Riot has gained access to thousands of messages from the National Socialist Legion’s Discord server, spanning from July to August 2018 as the group prepared to attend ‘Unite the Right 2‘ in Washington D.C., where a few dozen neo-Nazis were outnumbered by thousands of anti-racist counter-protesters. Leaked National Socialist Legion (NSL) chat logs show members discussed activities such as harassing members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community three months before the murder of 11 members of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh by neo-Nazi Robert Bowers. NSL members later celebrated Robert Bowers and also shared details about their own violent intentions.

The leaked chat logs we obtained begin during a leadership transition for the National Socialist Legion after the resignation of the group’s former leader, known as ‘Fox‘, a man from Sulphur Springs, Texas. ‘Fox’ was previously a member of Vanguard America and organized the group’s Texas branch and was active user on the Southern Front Discord server. ‘Fox’ made an appearance at a September 2017 protest opposing the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Dallas, Texas while holding the Vanguard America flag alongside William Fears, who was later charged with attempted murder for firing a gun at protestors following a talk by Richard Spencer in Florida.

4373

A parent took that picture.

4374

One of my friends teaches at UW in Madison and he mentioned that the kid in the upper right refused to participate. I didn’t read all the details, but I guess some folks in the area are trying to raise money to fund his college tuition as a result.

4375


4376

Well, as far as Nazi salutes go. Maybe not in other respects.