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https://www.newsweek.com/photo-teacher-making-students-nazi-salute-class-sparks-outrage-1677120
Feb 10, 2022 1:22 AM
Jess1988NY
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https://www.newsweek.com/photo-teacher-making-students-nazi-salute-class-sparks-outrage-1677120
SocialismForTheRichCapitalismForThePoor
Thanks Trump.
Necc0
i mean it actually was how we used to salute the flag. we changed it for a reason though
dumblastname
There truly was no need to even tiptoe anywhere near the line… briefly discuss the Bellamy salute, maybe show a captioned pic and move on…
funktasticbeast
BootsDusty
Locopogo
Was confused then saw "US" and "Alabama" and it suddenly made perfect sense. What a fucked up place.
bippityboppitybuttsex
The US Gov't paid my grandfather good money to shoot Nazis, I suggest we resume the practice.
theusernameformerlyknownastildo
Sigh. I think it's time to rewatch Die Welle (The Wave).
theusernameformerlyknownastildo
Maybe the teachers should watch it. And not as an instructional movie.
Galfronon
JoseCanada79
How is this even possible? How is this school accredited and receiving funding? .....oh, right... America... but still....
Gorillabumrush
It’s the richest, most lily-white, and privileged, district in Jefferson County. It’s disgusting.
db629
MinorityRetort
God damnit, Alabama.
KamikazeGerbil101
Bunch of cheetoh eating surrender monkeys !
Justchillindylan
Well it’s the south you expect them to welcome people that are different with open arms? I mean come on that dudes wife is probably a gun
PraiseAzathoth
Glad to see at least some of the students down there had enough spine to refuse doing it.
meganical
Not easy when you know how violent and short-tempered Nazis are
Morbidly0btuse
Onlyhereforthelaughs
You know what side they're on when they go after the whistleblowers.
Raisinsarenasty
Holy shit. This is wild. Didn't we already have a war about this? Lotta countries involved? Like a world war?
InfocalypseRising
Fun fact: it was always like this. They were just undercover before their tiny-fingered orange messiah rose
Vter3
They were only undercover temporarily:
Jamnew60
Time for General Sherman to take another ride through the South.
nobodywhatsoever
Look up the Bellamy salute's use and the reason it changed to the hand over the heart. Someone got mixed up somewhere.
besttom
God help us. I mean it. Please, God/Yahweh/Buddha/Mother Nature/ Universal Spirit, please help us purge our country of this hate. Please.
Murmull
"Help yourselves" - Heyzeus
overunderwhelmed
There will be no divine intervention —only us.
SilverNicktail
The hopeful part of this is that the kids recognised that this was absolutely wrong, taped it, and refused to back down. Well done.
bril350
They should get medals of freedom for standing up to this facist bullshit
RawDogRic
Being anAmerican is so fucking embarrassing anymore.
springelmogizmo
here we are...
VibratingNipples
That was after he grab her by the pussy
MinorityRetort
"Nasty woman"
FellaWithUmbrella
When ’Freedom Fries’ became a thing, I always tought that they should return her to France to really make a point.
MurderGoat4
As someone from Alabama, sorry guys… some of us are trying?
GravyEducation
You get a pass. I usually ask people to move up to MN but now... is not a great time
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meganical
Not sure when we decided inaction of bad things was kindness but humans have been this way for a long time. None of us truly care enough
altrdgenetics
well... pick up a ball bat and get to introducing it to some kneecaps.
MurderGoat4
Way ahead of you. I grew up 30 minutes away from Pulaski TN. From around the age of 14 I was involved with a lot of the protests (most of
MurderGoat4
which turned extremely physical) to keep the KKK rallies out of my hometown. Terrible things are always out there, but that’ll never stop
MurderGoat4
some of us from fighting against it.
IamfromCanadaeh1983
Maybe we should just stop pushing people in the south to get vaccinated? Let nature take its course?
meganical
Or just give them more fatal meth. Pretty sure the meth plan would work a lot faster at thinning the herd
SomeGiantIdiot
People in the south travel. Many of them did last year in early January.
Roqinn
Fun fact: Americans did a similar salute called the Bellamy salute or flag salute, before WWII.
FredeFuppe
That is exactly what they were being taught about in the context of the nazis doing it too. Read the attached articles.
Crowlands
And if they hadn't done any of the myriad further steps, like threatening the Jewish kid, maybe it'd be ok. But they did. So it's not.
FredeFuppe
No they reprimanded the kid who started filming a teacher and intentionally presenting it as something it wasn't. People's lives can be
FredeFuppe
ruined by something like that. Of course it should have consequences.
katolu
Yep. Nazis ruin everything.
Asteroidrules
Which is literally what this class was teaching about.
RogueKitsune
Yeah, which is why I'm *slightly* curious if this got taken out of context... still ill-advised, undoubtedly, but...?
Roqinn
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
Exyr
Fire them all
IcouldntfindmymedsthismorningsoItookyours
From a canon.
Exyr
Into a pool of sharks?
Thresholdpush
Only if they're sharks with fricken lazer beams attached to their foreheads.
walnutbreath
Every creature deserves a warm meal.
Apeofdeath
I feel like there is no easy way back to normal for the south
TacoPoweredHelicopter
You don't want to go back to anything.. you want to progress.
BabyWitchErika
As a Proud Canadian, I agree. Everyone south of the border's fucked.
CelestialSea
"Back" to normal? Was slavery normal? Jim Crow? The last time the South was normal was before the Europeans invaded.
Cats2cats
I fear that the purchase they gained will not easy be rescinded.
zealabyrinth
This is normal for them. They’re an awful culture that is built on racism, quite literally. Unlike Germany, they chose this with open eyes.
Charminbear
As someone who recently traveled through the south, it is odd. It really does feel like a different country. Not a fan of most of it tbh
ontarioOT
Back?
dealinwifscum
Maybe time for a Dresden air drop over these nazi scum
MaybeTechishPerson
It isn't all of us...
Kaileeb92
*General William T. Sherman has entered the chat*
ReaperCDN
There isn't. "The South will rise again!" was a promise they've kept.
DrGonzosDirtyShorts
Never was. The scum just feel more emboldened than ever to step out of the shadows.
DrGonzosDirtyShorts
Please, no one upvote comment any further, thanks.
dealinwifscum
Makes it easier to pick them of..I mean out
charliegrs
"Back" to normal?
sockracer4
I think that if it's been this way for 200 years, then it kinda is the normal
eggmuffin
This *is* their normal.
bippityboppitybuttsex
I agree. Expel them from the union.
barnwolf
Take pride in what makes you unique. /s
JamaicanCheesePatty
This isn’t just an issue in the southern US
TheRockDude
Ideas, including toxic and cancerous ones, can spread pretty far over time, especially with the help of technology
AvocadoHouse
As an Orange County resident who lived in Huntington Beach… I agree. Difference is the southern racists are more identifiable than here
Geistbar
It isn't. But it's one that's a hell of a lot worse in the south, especially deep & Appalachian south, than it is elsewhere.
zealabyrinth
Oregon is worse. Out here it’s so much worse than I ever experienced in the South. America is a cesspool.
FliesByNight
I'm wondering if there is a way back for America... we (the rest of the world) are so worried about you guys
charliegrs
The only thing that will bring this country "back" to normal is some kind of pearl harbor or 9/11 type event. Even then I'm not so sure
AttackoftheRobotMonkeys
Dot point the process for those slightly confused by how that would help
Tiberyn
We need to implement a lot of laws that would screw over people in power, so good luck with that.
Druidhunter77
I live here in the south and it’s scary down here, I feel like I’m the only sane one most days
AngryQueefNoises
I live in libby lib Washington state and I'm scared for the country rn..
TattoosAndTENS
*the WHITE south. Black southerners are not the problem
Fyreworx
There is, it's just messy.
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
It starts with education, and not letting them set their own curriculum. It may take a generation, though, there is no quick fix
Chalybos
Sherman 2.0.
NZSheeps
Grabes
I've always said texas should be a glass floor.
MurderGoat4
As an Alabama resident. I volunteer as tribute.
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Yep, Sherman should have employed a scorched earth approach to the south
manninGiraffeGod
This thread is full of people who have no idea what the south is actually like. Sure keep stereotyping an entire region- it really helps.
SirQuackerz
Life long Alabama Resident. Guess again
AngryQueefNoises
I've lived in the south and it's true
SirQuackerz
Life long Alabama resident here . It’s all true and complaining that the south is unfairly stereotyped is pure gaslighting.
manninGiraffeGod
You uhh.. you don’t know what that word means do you. But regardless- your experiences are not everyone’s. The world is complex.
SirQuackerz
No I used it correctly… go reread the thread nice and slow.
manninGiraffeGod
But I suppose my argument can’t hold. I’m from Georgia and that’s basically cultural utopia compared to Alabama. See- I can stereotype too
SirQuackerz
You assumed people with negative opinions of the south must be from somewhere else (aka stereotyping). You didn’t even make an argument
wargames
you do know that racist also exist in the north right? The state with the largest amount of nazis is illinois.
TheRockDude
I'd assume tolerance of deeply-held racist views led to their spread and acceptance across the land over time
qui9
I hate Illinois nazis.
kerms
Yeah let's just ignore literally everything about the south because of Illinois Nazis
wargames
i am pretty sure exclusively blaming the south for all things racist is also not a good plan.
SirQuackerz
Making an example of the heart of the confederacy IS A GREAT IDEA. Life long Alabama resident here.
TattoosAndTENS
Boo, you whore
jimfalconer611
Go back 150 years, do Reconstruction right. Don’t agree to the Compromise of 1877 that removed Union troops from the South.
gangyontheganges
Agreed but would we have have ended up with Hayes as president? Reconstruction was incredibly unpopular across the country by that point
zealabyrinth
Who cares? What would he have done? Something horrible like prevent us from having universal healthcare? Oh wait! The US sucks.
gangyontheganges
Oh golly.. someone needs to retake US History
zealabyrinth
Evidently it’s you if you think one ass hole or another would have mattered much by now.
TheS4ndm4n
Germany got rid of most nazi's at Nuremberg. Might want to try their method too.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
Also, pass the full reconstruction bill (which includes funding infrastructure repairs) instead of the amended "make the south pay" version.
SoupCanMan
The way the current tax distribution works, that's basically what is happening now, doesn't seem to be working.
SirQuackerz
Governor Ivey saw fit to use our Federal COVID aid on more prisons…
Sully0811
If you're doing that you also have to execute the traitor leaders instead of letting them walk away.
Mustakraken
Oh no! Anyway.
zealabyrinth
We still need to do that.
CleverGroom
"I am satisfied, and have been all the time, that the problem of this war consists in the awful fact... 1/2
CleverGroom
...that the present class of men who rule the South must be killed outright rather than in the conquest of territory." - Sherman, 1864 2/2
zxwaffen
Problem being it wasn't the men. Daughters of the Confederacy is responsible for a huge amount of social damage and still exists.
CleverGroom
Truth and reconciliation is another route, though it's difficult too. Germany's done better than us and yet they still have a Nazi problem.
Hurrdurrimgurr
I wonder what's it like to see your buddies die on a beach fighting the Nazis, and then years later see your grandkids waving Nazi flags.
Nalianna
HandoB4Javert
ME2BNS12
I was going to post this. I feel like we're missing some context about the school lesson here (hopefully)
HandoB4Javert
No, this was the first attempt to "Pledge Allegiance to the Flag" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute. 1892 -1942
ME2BNS12
I was talking about the content that OP showed, sweetie.
catsandcoke
More like great grandkids. My grandpas were in WWII and I’m 43.
Idontneedrealfacts
lots of people our age (am 45) are waving those stupid flags too
FredeFuppe
Most Americans weren't in Europe because they were against what the nazis did. They were there because Germanu declared war. That's it.
matthew2401360
Wasn't our whole involvement because of Pearl Harbor?
FredeFuppe
Well sort of. Japan attacked PH and declared war. Japan and Germany were allies, so they declared war in solidarity.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Germany used US eugenics operations as inspiration for a lot of what they did.
ThaneofGlamis
It’s be a safe bet that through military indoc and training that a vast majority of US troops fucking hated Nazis. Not the individual German
ThaneofGlamis
soldier, but Nazis. When we were in Afghan we sure as shit hated the Taliban.
FredeFuppe
Yes they hated them because they were the enemy. Not because of their political ideology. Germany declared war on the US. Not vice versa.
TielKiri
I mean, people hated middle-eastern terrorists because of their terrorist ideologies post 9/11. Safe to say plenty of people hated Nazis-
ThaneofGlamis
Not quite, soldiers tend to not hate their enemy. They are often taught about their enemy and why they are such. This leads to an abhorrence
Tomadzo
Most of them are dead now. Their inbred low intelligence, brain damaged off spring don’t know what grandpa did
rumandbass
Let's be honest... Great great grandpa.
rumandbass
It's a teen pregnancy joke folks.
WrongReference
H-how long ago do you think ww2 was??
TheRockDude
uh, 70-80? say you had a kid when you were deployed. 20ish years later, they have a kid; you're a grandpa. 40-50ish years later, the -
TheRockDude
- kid has a kid; you're a great grandpa. 70-80ish years, that kid has a kid; you're now a great great grandpa. Varies depending on when -
ukalliq
My grandfather fought in WWII. He's been dead for 20 years and I'm 45 years old.
WrongReference
Mine did too. He was a Korean forcibly drafted into the Japanese army. I’m in my twenties.
sylkysmooth
I mean.. its end is a couple decades short of a century ago but still.. a 'great-great' is a bit much.
yummilicious
I think they’re implying teenage pregnancy or something
EvilKrikkit
For the record, punching a Nazi is always socially acceptable, and correct.
Onenottaken
Said the kanguruh
MarkRavingMad
It's always okay to punch Nazis. https://youtu.be/oWMzog3ekS0
Bristlecone42
Punching isn’t enough.
coothlesscthulhu
Roserapaine
I support this sentiment.
PokingSmot
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
ihavethelowground
OBLIGE HIM
dragon3064
Can I bring my hammer?
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ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I'd be insulted if you didn't.
SwiftyGuy
Pretty sure more force is needed than that, as that has not deterred them from their hateful speech and actions yet.
ifoundthelight
If we can go to war with drugs and terrorism, we should go to war with Nazis.
SwiftyGuy
Again
backrideup9
How is that teacher still conscious? Somebody needs to beat the everloving hell out of him. Time to stop taking the hi road, fight them.
MicahtheMartian
Can't be bothered to figure out the context but if this teacher had a history of Nazism I would've punched that fuck in the face.
Niccolo101
But remember kids, kicking is also a valid option if your hands are already occupied punching other Nazis! Nazi balls don't matter.
Gayforbae
vintageRhino
What about a communist? Communists have killed far more people than Nazis.
StrangePoster
Found the nazi
IsolatedAsshole
Oh take your whataboutism, shove it up your ass, and cry to Tucker about it.
dankmemegenerator5000
BigTex1
sirpenguino
What about Communists? Do you know any? I don't see too many Communists lately but I sure as shit see Nazis.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
People who claim communist name but in fact funnel all the wealth and power to the few elite are not actually communists but you know. 1/2
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Communism is not inherently bad, just easily corruptible without oversight like MOST power structures. Nazism IS evil. Full stop. 2/2
ThatHappensToMeSometimes
Oh yay! More whataboutism! This topic has absolutely nothing to do with that. Please try again.
rumandbass
Cars have killed more people than the Nazis. What about cars?
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
PUNCH CARS, ACAB (C stands for Cars) https://youtu.be/bPP6VU6zVHU
Gayforbae
This is propaganda spread by Big Orthopedics....
BigTex1
I like how all of the commie simps get all pissy and accuse people of being Nazis for pointing this out. What a bunch of twats.
Arbitrarynamehere
Way more people have died because of the cruelties of capitalist organizations of the economy. It's not even close.
toku154
wHaTaBoUtIsM
BigTex1
TheLastBootyBender
If you need to deflect one atrocity with another, you are a sympathizer. Nazi.
BigTex1
Oh look, a commie twat. Sit and spin comrade.
TheLastBootyBender
One atrocity doesn't make another any less of a tragedy. Downplaying one by comparing it to another is disgusting and you should feel bad.