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| Subject: Pathetic: Chicago high school spends $53,000 to reprint yearbooks after staff discovered photos of students making white nationalist hand gestures Fri May 24, 2019 11:28 pm | |
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- Oak Park and River Forest High School halted the distribution of its yearbooks when staff found 18 photos of students making an upside-down OK sign
- Students of 'various races, ethnicities, genders and grades' flashed the symbol
- The hand gesture has become associated with the white supremacist movement
- It has been used by self-described racists including the accused shooter in the New Zealand mosque attacks in March and participants in Unite the Right rallies
- The Chicago school said it is not making presumptions about why the students flashed the sign, which can also be used as part of the harmless 'circle game'
- But the school decided to remove the photos and reprint the yearbooks for $53k
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7067819/Chicago-high-school-reprints-yearbooks-students-make-white-nationalist-hand-gesture.html
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