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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not minimizing an anti-semitic incident. I said it should be taken seriously and the kids should be disciplined EVEN if it was unintentional, because I think you have to take this that seriously. My sense is that the incident probably made Jewish students feel very uneasy and that alone is enough to justify disciplining these kids, even if their actions were the result of ignorance or stupidity rather than actual anti-semitism.

But I think it's worth it to stop and ask ourselves if we really think a group of Blair students got together in the middle of the school day, decided to do a Hitler salute, practiced it in front of other students, and then went outside to take a photo of themselves doing it. I just think it's worth noting that this sounds implausible in this community because this would be a level of overt Nazi sympathizing that does not make sense with what I know of the community. There is of course anti-semitic sentiment around here, but it is much more covert than that and the people who share those sentiments generally don't view themselves as Nazis and in fact would condemn Nazism.

I just think we should maybe consider that this was more of an unfortunate misunderstanding than evidence that Blair harbors a group of Nazi students.[/quote]

Just stop. You keep digging yourself into a deeper hole.[/quote]

There's no hole. Do you really think there is a neo-Nazi group at Blair? There is not. These were dumb kids doing something they shouldn't have, they are being held accountable, but it is not a sign of a Nazi uprising. Extremely strong chance it was a misunderstanding.[/quote]

Who was misunderstanding what? It looked like the Nazi salute but it was actually a yoga position? It was the Nazi salute but they thought "Nazis" were a TikTok dance?[/quote]

Do you really not see how kids born in 2009-2013 might not realize that raising your arm at a certain height is a Nazi salute? Or might be not realize how closely a dance move or a pose for a photo resembles a Nazi salute? It's entirely possible they've never seen photos of it or had anyone explain to them what the salute was. Even if they know what Nazis are.

This incident is distinct from situations where a clearly anti-semitic statement has been made or written in graffiti, or incidents involving swastikas which are very specific and don't get accidentally drawn places.[/quote]

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