Those teens aren't giving a Nazi salute. It's just the Wisconsin Wave!

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Now listen, I know everyone’s upset about that photo of a group of Wisconsin teenagers with their right arms thrust up at a roughly 45-degree angle.
Many are saying the picture, taken last spring before the Baraboo High School prom, shows a big crowd of teenage boys standing on the steps of a local courthouse giving a Nazi salute. Many are outraged.

Well I’m here to tell you this is all just a big misunderstanding. That’s not a Nazi salute. That’s just the Wisconsin Wave!
You see, according to a report by The Associated Press, the parent who took the photo says “he was simply asking the teens to wave goodbye to their parents before they headed off to prom and never anticipated the image would draw such widespread condemnation.”.....


See? These grinning boys were just waving to their parents! (And the one in front who appears to be flashing the OK sign that has been embraced by online white supremacists? He’s just signaling to his parents that he’s not nervous about prom and everything’s going to be OK.)

To read more, and see the picture:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-wisconsin-nazi-salute-wave-huppke-20181113-story.html

Trump emboldens racists to be openly racist.

[ProudLib72]

1. And if you believe that, I have a certain bridge I'd like to sell ya!

I saw the interview with him last night. When he was done nazisplainin' I wanted to lock him up.

[guillaumeb]

3. Rex Huppke is one of the few reasons to read the CHicago Tribune.

The editorial content is ferociously right wing, but Huppke is a light of reason there.

And in this area, an open and admitted Nazi won over 56,000 votes when he ran for Congress in the IL 3rd District.

[ProudLib72]

8. I meant the man who took the photo

They interviewed him. I forget what program I was watching, but he nazisplained how he told the boys to "wave goodbye to their parents". Yeah, right!

[LakeSuperiorView]

12. I hate Illinois Nazis.

[cp]

2. Satire

As a Wisconsiner, I can assure you that those little toe-rags are indeed giving a Nazi salute. Looks like the dad who took the photo and lied about it should get consequences too.

[guillaumeb]

5. And the boy in front was flashing the white power "OK" salute as well.

If it acts like a Nazi, and talks like a Nazi, it is probably a...……..


Trump voter.

[Lochloosa]

4. Look at the kid in the front. Arms down but giving the white power sign

[guillaumeb]

6. Another coincidence?

Like KKKavanaugh's clerk flashing the sign during the hearings.

[irresistable]

7. so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen ,goodbye

[Liberalhammer]

9. Republican Freshman Class

These are the Wisconsin Republican Freshman class. Robin Voss is recruiting them now.

[guillaumeb]

11. Sarcastic, but possible. eom

[Downtown Hound]

10. Oh, well silly me.

And that comment about how they "even got the black kid to do it," hmmm. So I guess he was just legitimately surprised that he got a black kid to wave goodbye to his parents? Good thing there was no racism here.