Students expelled after Facebook group calls for 'execution' of Jews, black people

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Students expelled after Facebook group calls for 'execution' of Jews, black people

About 15 students wrote messages championing ‘white power’, posted pictures of guns and encouraged recruitment so they can ‘complete their mission’

Sam Levin in San Francisco
@SamTLevin
Friday 14 October 2016 17.58 EDT

A Nazi-themed Facebook group that called for the “execution” of Jews and African Americans has led to the expulsion of five Boulder, Colorado, high school students in an unusual case of “alt-right” hate speech spreading to teens in a liberal city.

About 15 students participated in a “4th Reich’s Official Group Chat” on Facebook, according to a Boulder police report, which said members discussed “killing all Jews and (N-words)” and encouraged each other to “recruit more members so they can complete their ‘mission’.”

Members wrote messages championing “WHITE POWER!”, posted pictures of guns, called a firearm a “(N-word) BLASTER”, used derogatory terms for gay people, joked about “rape memes”, declared that they “must lynch the (N-words)”, and mocked Mexicans, copies of the group’s chats showed.

The controversy culminated in expulsions at Boulder Preparatory high school but comes at a time when the alt-right movement – known for white supremacist views and its overtly racist ideology – has gained traction during the divisive US presidential race.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/14/nazi-facebook-group-alt-right-execution-jews-black-people-colorado-students-expelled

[TeamPooka]

1. deplorables

[treestar]

9. exactly

they deserve that term. Hillary was right.

[CarrieLynne]

2. were seeing this everywhere - even if trump doesnt win....hes done so much damage already :(

[Midnight Writer]

3. Again, does anyone think for a millisecond that these are NOT conservative Republican supporters?

Did that even cross your mind for an instant?

Did anyone on this planet reading this think "Hmmm. Probably some of those damn Democrat kids with their wild shenanigans"?

[riversedge]

5. "the hateful and violent speech has also made its way into wealthier white urban communities,"

Students going to prep schools usually are more affluent and educated. Scary stuff.




...........The controversy culminated in expulsions at Boulder Preparatory high school but comes ......................


Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has accused GOP nominee Donald Trump of “taking hate mainstream”, and the Republican candidate’s campaign has galvanized far-right groups associated with the Ku Klux Klan and fringe online communities that celebrate “white identity”.

Some have argued that Trump’s charged rhetoric – with frequent speeches demeaning and stereotyping Mexicans, African Americans, Muslims and other minorities – has fueled a racist backlash and created a platform for alt-right groups and white working-class people in rural America who feel disenfranchised and ignored in mainstream politics.

The Colorado case, however, suggests that the hateful and violent speech has also made its way into wealthier white urban communities, in this case in an ultra-liberal city known for its “hippy culture” and tolerance.

“It was a shock to the community,” said Scott Levin, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. “It isn’t as if there is any identifiable group [in Boulder] that is advocating this. There’s a lot of hateful rhetoric going on i
n this country right now, and that has just empowered some teenagers...................

[Merlot]

12. "It was a shock to the community???" Really???

It's "shocking" that upscale, educated people are racist? It's only the rural, working class that have reacist tendencies?

[NaturalHigh]

4. Miserable litte shits.

[greymattermom]

6. whose parents can afford to live in Boulder

now that's scary

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Disgusting. Trump has called for this type to crawl out from under the rocks.

[Mc Mike]

8. Coors has been pushing fascism in CO since the '70's.

They didn't call him Adolph for nothing.

[Agnosticsherbet]

10. Trump's heated rhetoric has caused this kind of crap to boil over.

[lark]

11. Thanks drumpf

for throwing a grenade on that bundle of previously just smoldering rage.

[YOHABLO]

13. Trump might have something to do with this, but it's more than just him and his campaign.