They might be juveniles but their parents aren’t. They are learning this behavior from someone. Maybe charge the parents with these crimes and call them out for not being more responsible for their kid’s actions.
Anally, and some parents, need to teach a couple of desperately needed lessons to students who missed a few basics human rules from kindergarten: Besides, don’t toss your garbage on the ground expecting others to clean it up for you … but also, don’t be mean, cruel, hateful or threaten others with your words and actions.
I don't think "Nazi symbols" accurately characterizes the graffiti. Based on the photo at the end of the article, there was also at least one antisemitic statement (Hitler was right). It's odd that this description was not included in the body of the article and that the graffiti was only characterized as racist and anti-black. Given the explosion of antisemitism among Gen Z and America's younger generations, I think it was a disservice not to mention the nature of all the graffiti more explicitly in the article. A swastika by itself might be dismissed as an ignorant attempt to be edgy. A swastika accompanied by the phrase "Hitler was right" conveys a far more sinister message.
I had this discussion with Swindell, who shares your opinion. I thought the fact that it was located near a black family's residence and that all the words were specifically racist, that this was meant to be anti-black and white supremacist. Nazis also didn't like black people. But I see your point. I'll add the word "anti-semitic" to the article.
My father was an infantryman (42nd Inf. Division) at the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. When I was 5 years-old I painted a swastika on a wall. He didn't beat me because he thought if he started, he would not be able to stop. Concentration camps were factories to kill humans. Isis is nothing compared to the Nazis.
The quick response (and success!) and Chief McDonagh's email make one feel good about Sebastopol City Police. Well done.
With regard to the significance of the racism and anti-semitism expressed by the young deviants, I will personally wait for more evidence before I consider this act as an indicator of an "explosion" of anti-semitism. It might have been done by the same Analy students I came upon inside Safeway, several months ago, stuffing a knapsack with stuff that they then walked out of the store without paying for. In every population of individuals there is a bell curve of capabilities for every trait - in this case civility - where some are exemplarily "good" and some are notoriously "bad". Where the median lies is the critical issue. And we need more evidence to see where that point lies.
They might be juveniles but their parents aren’t. They are learning this behavior from someone. Maybe charge the parents with these crimes and call them out for not being more responsible for their kid’s actions.
Anally, and some parents, need to teach a couple of desperately needed lessons to students who missed a few basics human rules from kindergarten: Besides, don’t toss your garbage on the ground expecting others to clean it up for you … but also, don’t be mean, cruel, hateful or threaten others with your words and actions.
It’s 2026, grow up!
I don't think "Nazi symbols" accurately characterizes the graffiti. Based on the photo at the end of the article, there was also at least one antisemitic statement (Hitler was right). It's odd that this description was not included in the body of the article and that the graffiti was only characterized as racist and anti-black. Given the explosion of antisemitism among Gen Z and America's younger generations, I think it was a disservice not to mention the nature of all the graffiti more explicitly in the article. A swastika by itself might be dismissed as an ignorant attempt to be edgy. A swastika accompanied by the phrase "Hitler was right" conveys a far more sinister message.
I also reached out to Analy principal Chuck Wade to see if he was seeing a "Nick Fuentes" influence at the school.
I had this discussion with Swindell, who shares your opinion. I thought the fact that it was located near a black family's residence and that all the words were specifically racist, that this was meant to be anti-black and white supremacist. Nazis also didn't like black people. But I see your point. I'll add the word "anti-semitic" to the article.
My father was an infantryman (42nd Inf. Division) at the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp. When I was 5 years-old I painted a swastika on a wall. He didn't beat me because he thought if he started, he would not be able to stop. Concentration camps were factories to kill humans. Isis is nothing compared to the Nazis.
Find the punks and take the parents to court. Time to stop being 'understanding' of sociopathic behavior.
The quick response (and success!) and Chief McDonagh's email make one feel good about Sebastopol City Police. Well done.
With regard to the significance of the racism and anti-semitism expressed by the young deviants, I will personally wait for more evidence before I consider this act as an indicator of an "explosion" of anti-semitism. It might have been done by the same Analy students I came upon inside Safeway, several months ago, stuffing a knapsack with stuff that they then walked out of the store without paying for. In every population of individuals there is a bell curve of capabilities for every trait - in this case civility - where some are exemplarily "good" and some are notoriously "bad". Where the median lies is the critical issue. And we need more evidence to see where that point lies.