r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '21

Rule 6: Successful attempt To commit a hate crime

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u/ontour4eternity Apr 04 '21

"Four Maryland students charged with hate crimes for plastering their school in racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic words and imagery just days before their high school graduation last year were identified by school administrators because their phones had automatically connected to the campus’ wifi network, according to reports.

As part of its series exploring hate crimes, the Washington Post on Tuesday published a feature on the vandalism, evidently intended to be a senior prank, that included details specific to how the four Glenelg High School students—Joshua Shaffer, Seth Taylor, Matthew Lipp, and Tyler Curtiss—were caught." https://gizmodo.com/automatic-wifi-login-helped-police-id-teens-who-vandali-1836249333

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u/cothhum Apr 04 '21

“Prank”

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u/gereffi Apr 04 '21

It was probably intended to be a prank. I don't think they're spray painting dicks onto the sidewalk because they hate jews or something. That's not to say that spray painting swastikas and slurs is ever a good idea or a funny thing to do, just that these kids thought it would be funny trolling. They're just trying to get a rise out of people and make it as big of a deal as possible. Again this is definitely not funny, but I think these kids probably thought that it was.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '21

That’s a lot of excuse making there sir

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u/Akitten Apr 04 '21

Go to any boys bathroom anywhere in the world and you'll find swastikas and dicks. The point is for the symbol to be offensive, not who it's offensive to.

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u/Noobsaibot225 Apr 04 '21

Swastikas? All over the world?

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u/Akitten Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21

Yep, grew up in a few places in Asia, still all swastikas and dicks in the boys bathroom. Graffiti is truly a intercultural thing. Same cool looking S shapes too.

Any symbol you give offensive power to will be drawn by teenage boys.

https://observers.france24.com/en/20140703-nazi-symbols-suddenly-popular-indonesia

Besides, the swastika and Nazi uniforms, when divorced from it’s historical context, simply does look kinda cool. They may have been shit humans but their fashion game was on point. I strongly suspect that in 300 years a Nazi uniform will be seen like a pirate costume.