First Came High School Swastika Party Then Came White Power Posters
About a week after students turned up in Snapchat photos last month giving the sieg heil salute to red Solo cups arranged in the shape of a swastika, white supremacist propaganda turned up on the Newport Harbor High School campus.
That revelation came in a Monday report on the LAist website and KPCC (89.3-FM) radio with the headline, “How White Supremacists are Recruiting Educated ‘Normies’ Around LA.”
The same story reports that white-power posters have turned up at UC Irvine and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo as well as on the streets of Orange and Anaheim.
These incidents have more to do with a national trend than they do with the Harbor High scandal—which my colleague Gabriel San Roman covered with followups on a solidarity rally by Orange County Jews; Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister speaking with Harbor High parents and students; and a swastika partygoer’s mother sending the Weekly an open letter.
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