Las Vegas Private school recalls yearbook after it includes quote from American Nazi Party founder

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A Las Vegas private school has recalled its yearbook after a student used a quote from the founder of the American Nazi Party, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday.

Meadows School, located in the Las Vegas community of Summerlin, was founded in 1984 by Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas’ current mayor.

The recalled yearbook, a copy of which was obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, features a student’s photo accompanied by the quote, “Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.”

The quote, which was attributed anonymously, originated from notorious white supremacist George Lincoln Rockwell during a 1966 interview with “Roots” author Alex Haley, the report said.

Rockwell was known in the 1960s as a provocateur who led a violent counterprotest in Chicago against Martin Luther King Jr. Rockwell was assassinated in 1967 by a member of his own movement.

School officials told The Review-Journal that the student associated with the quote is “no longer a part of our Meadows community.”

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“We are taking this very seriously, and cannot provide further details until our investigation is complete.”

School officials as of Friday had not yet determined if the school will allow the student to graduate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/private-school-recalls-yearbook-after-it-includes-quote-from-american-nazi-party-founder-report/ar-AA1bxW5l

[DonCoquixote]

1. taking tioo very seriously

Yes because the neo nazis in society are too eager to ditch their costumes and want to march right into the noonday streets.

[marble falls]

2. Isn't that Ron Desantis standing just right of Mr Rockwell? And Olie North extreme left back row? ..

... Fred Trump right behind Rockwell?

I heard the picnic lunch served pan fried chicken smothered in hate.

[Effete Snob]

3. "if the school will allow the student to graduate"

Did the student pass the required courses?

This yearbook incident dominates the Google results, but the quote can be found in various online quote collections without a whole lot of context.

It might be worth knowing where the student found it, but instead, someone went to the Las Vegas Review Journal with it, because the local - and now national - media must be informed of every dumb thing a teenager somewhere does.

[Sympthsical]

4. I'm trying to understand the purpose of the daily random bulletin

It feels like we're increasingly subjected to stories about randos on the other side of the country doing something stupid and it being held up as proof of . . . something.

There are 340 million people in this country. Someone, somewhere is going to be doing something very stupid, assholish, or clueless.

Why do I need constant, daily, granular alerting to it by the media?

But hey. At least it isn't teenagers screwing up a bathroom somewhere. Which was also part of this morning's digest. For some reason.

I have literally had more important and salient things happen in my own life than what gets shared around as "news" in some of these cases.

[FSogol]

5. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[Sympthsical]

9. Sometimes I find a bit of cat hair on the floor

I don't dump a can of gasoline on it and kill it with fire just to make sure.

Because I'm a rational human being and don't need everything minor thing that happens in this life ramped up to 11.

You say sunlight. I say daily dose of pointless outrage to feed the addiction.

If you're not feeling anger or anxiety, you're not clicking.

Which, hey, it's everyone's choice to engage in it. Just so they're aware that's how it works.

[Effete Snob]

11. Absofuckinglutely

Empty platitudes are a poor substitute for thought.

[Effete Snob]

10. Giving attention seekers attention doesn't disinfect anything

There are people who have profound issues who do crazy things, and there are also just plain attention-seekers. Giving each dumb thing some asshole does somewhere does not "disinfect" a damned thing.

What it does do is to (a) spread the infection to inspire other crazy people, and (b) make crazy-person-behavior seem more prevalent than it is.

I guarantee you several things:

1. Somewhere, today, an interaction between a high school student and a teacher or administrator is not going to go well.

2. One of them is going to do something outrageous and stupid.

3. The incident will have a tangible impact on maybe four or five people total.

But, for whatever fucking reason, it will be catapaulted by social media and traditional media as "news" of some "trend" that, itself, is manufactured and spread by this exact process.

No, we don't need "sunlight" to "disinfect" whatever poor choice some stupid person made today. If we didn't make celebrities out of these stupid, crazy, immature, whatever, people, and MAYBE, just MAYBE, used the media spotlight to promote and publicize the actions of people who did something to make the world better, we'd have a whole lot less "disinfecting" to do.

Choices are made about what gets attention.

[Sympthsical]

14. You've reminded me of an article

It's from a few years ago, and I'm unable to find it at the moment.

What the author did was comb through media stories, particularly those involving trends. What they found was that the "journalist" in these stories would come up with an idea, run around the Internet trying to find a couple of people who confirmed the idea, gathered a few quotes from total randos, then voila. Produce a story in a national publication that heavily implied the author's completely self-generated preoccupation was actually a widespread national trend taking hold that people needed to be aware about.

Every since reading that article, I see it more and more. I've seen stories posted, "People online outraged in response to . . ." then you click on the story, see some tweets or Facebook posts linked, and you realize that "people online" consist of a vanishingly small group of nobodies. The author must have run searches for whatever bugaboo they had in the moment. I've seen tweets linked in ostensibly serious articles where the person being cited had like four followers and the relevant tweet was shared like 20 times.

I think the bathroom story broke me this morning. Just . . . on a level of who gives a shit, that has to be one of the whoest giveiest the shittiest of them all.

[Effete Snob]

16. Yah, the "trend"

The "new trend" story is great, because publicizing it is self-fulfilling. By the time it makes the local news' daily "scare the old people" clip, no one is actually doing it anymore, but it may get a second wind.

Closely related is the habit of pluralizing a single event.

Some asshole somewhere will do a stupid thing to generate attention. Then, even though it was one asshole doing one stupid thing, you'll see references like "Now we have assholes doing this stupid thing."

The immortal Antoine Dodson nailed it:

[Sympthsical]

17. Thank you for that

Partner's about to wonder why I'm making coffee while listening to the Bed Intruder Song at 6:30 in the morning. Schmoyoho's moment may have passed, but Antoine is forever.

[stopdiggin]

18. + couple hundred. I want to thank you

(and Effete) for deconstructing this trend of reporting 'stupid sh*t done by stupid people' - then conflating it into a 'movement' - and breathlessly insisting that we "must pay attention"

Here we have - one high school student, that managed to sneak one (potentially questionable?) quote into a yearbook (like that hasn't happened, and been tried by a cocky high schooler, about a billion times in the past?) - and now this is something that really needs to be 'exposed' (along with requisite hand wringing?) in media coast to coast?

[Sympthsical]

19. There needs to be some kind of online media rule

"Whatever you write and attempt to share must be more interesting than anything I may conceivably encounter in my own life."

Teenagers being shitty, some random asshole saying something, etc. Yeah, that stuff happens. If it happens within 20 feet of me, ok, interest piqued. If it happens 2,000 miles away, I'm not understanding why this rises to a level of my investment or caring. Or anyone else's.

JimBob was passingly racist at a gas station in Squiksapawny, Missouratana? Yeah, well, sounds like a thing for the people in JimBob's life to deal with. Maybe they should have a chat with him. I don't see how me half the country away and very preoccupied with my state not falling into the ocean needs to be kept apprised of the situation. However, crazy asshole screams racial epithets on a highway before totalling his car? I absolutely positively want to see that, ideally with video. That's not happening in my neighborhood. (I hope)

There are levels here.

[stopdiggin]

21. well put. again. -(nt)-

[70sEraVet]

6. If i had heard that quote, i wouldn't have associated it with any kind of hate- speech.

Any more than, "Live every day as if it were your last".

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Same here, and that's exactly the quote that came to mind.

I'm certain that sentiment goes back millennia.

And good morning.

[Effete Snob]

15. Barack Obama, among others....

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."— Edward Abbey

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.“ — Barack Obama

[Effete Snob]

12. Well, as Hitler once said, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

[pwb]

8. Not one smile?

Toothless freaks living on hot dogs. Powerful men eh?

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Arizona GOP asked followers if they were ready to die to overturn 2020 election.

Arizona Republican Party asks followers if they're willing to die to overturn election results

BY SOPHIE LEWIS
CBS News, DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Arizona Republican Party asked its Twitter followers this week if they would be "willing" to die to overturn President Trump's election loss.

On Monday, an activist associated with the "Stop the Steal" movement, which promotes baseless arguments that Democrats "stole" the election, tweeted, "I am willing to give my life for this fight."

In response, the official account for the Arizona branch of the GOP quote tweeted the sentiment, adding, "He is. Are you?"

SNIP…

"'Die for Trump' is the official 'AZ GOP' twitter message? Really guys? Really?" Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain tweeted.

CONTINUES…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-republican-party-overturn-election-results-death/

[msfiddlestix]

20. yowzer. that was an image I didn't need to see on my computer screen this am. n/t

[jmowreader]

22. Y'know...

…maybe they should get out of this habit of having the seniors provide “profound quotes” to go under their pictures in the yearbook.