California School District Confirms Photo of People With Swastikas on Bodies Are Students

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ACalifornia school district has confirmed that students from one of its high schools are pictured in a viral image showing people bearing swastikas on their bodies.

An investigation was launched earlier this week after an image featuring a group of eight young people posing with swastikas painted on their bodies appeared in a popular social media post. Wheatland Union High School District officials later admitted that the image featured students from Wheatland Union High School, which is located in Northern California's Yuba County.

"I can confirm that the students in the picture are Wheatland Union High School students," Wheatland Union High School District Superintendent Nicole Newman said in a Thursday letter to stakeholders obtained by Newsweek. "As a result of that confirmation, my team and I are in close communication with district legal counsel, as we take disciplinary action."

"There is no denying that, the choices made by the students in the picture were hurtful and deeply troubling," she added. "Their actions do not represent who we are as a school district and community."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-school-district-confirms-photo-of-people-with-swastikas-on-bodies-are-students/ar-AAS7MHa

[LoisB]

1. "Their actions do not represent who we are as a school district and community."

This is a phrase I am so tired of hearing/seeing.

[Solly Mack]

3. Me, too.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. I'm tired of the phrase too

Clearly it does if the posting in question is as popular as they say it is.

[Grins]

13. "You are what your record says you are." - Big Tuna. NM

[RockRaven]

2. That represents very well who they are as a community.

In 2020 Yuba County was 59% TFG, 38% Biden, 3% other.

Spare us the "this isn't who we are" bullshit. It's exactly who many of you are. Stop lying to yourselves, and us, about your neighbors.

[pecosbob]

4. How 'bout this phrase?

'It wouldn't be fair to ruin the lives of these bright young students'...like that little asshole Nick Sandmann.

[Enter stage left]

6. NOBODY IS BORN A BIGOT...

If "It wouldn't be fair to ruin the lives of these bright young students", then let's ruin the lives of their parents and peers that taught them this bigotry.

This has to stop, not tomorrow, but today.

This is how Hitler gained traction. It has to stop.

[LoisB]

7. Hear, hear!

[Irish_Dem]

8. About 80 million people died in WWII, a war fighting fascism.

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And these kids think it is funny or cool to wear swastikas.

[Celerity]

9. bruv 2nd from the right looks Latino, all look like they came from the shallow end of the gene pool

Not much Master Race going on here. Bloke in the front looks like the younger brother of half of the WV Rethug male voters I have seen interviewed in the last several months.

[Grins]

14. Back row, 3rd from the left. Note the hand sign.

[canetoad]

15. They didn't draw those symbols on themselves

Look closely at the outlines; these were all drawn by one person - someone with a good knowledge of Nazi iconography. Relevant? I dunno. There's always the possibility they've been set up.

[Celerity]

16. He looks like the leader. Notice his swastika is all filled in, meaning

he took time and was the probably first to do it. The fat one to his right, with the shit haircut, looks like the typical beta mimicker of the Alpha. The leader also is, as noted, making the white power trolling sign, meaning he is already knowledgeable on it all.

Just my 30 second hot take socio breakdown.

[AncientAndy]

19. Is this a serious thing...

or like a bad idea for a party theme?

[Thomas Hurt]

10. Welcome to the Christian Republic of the United States...Christofascist theocracy coming up.

[PTWB]

11. Let's hope they're all identified and publicly shamed.

While they may be juveniles, they’re old enough to know better and old enough to suffer the consequences of their decisions.

[former9thward]

12. The school district can do very little.

The picture is not in a school setting and they are not representing themselves as the school. The Supreme Court in the Tinker decision said that HS students have First amendment rights and can express themselves politically as well as wear symbols.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

17. Way to represent your school, scumbags.

Irish Dem's post nails it- our Greatest Generation lost millions of people fighting Fascism and these clueless idiots mock that.

[NowISeetheLight]

18. Their parents must be so proud