2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNazi group uncovered after Colorado teen kills himself to prove his commitment to killing Jews
The suicide of a Boulder, Colorado teenager has led to the exposure of a network of neo-Nazi teens who chatted on Facebook about killing black people and Jews.
The Boulder Daily Camera reported Thursday that at least five high schoolers have been expelled from classes over their racist Facebook group, 4th Reichs Official Group Chat. The groups existence came to light after its ringleader killed himself on Sep. 21 to show his allegiance to the Nazi party and the killing of Jewish people, said a police report.
The unnamed teen who went by the online handle The Fuhrer was a student at the Boulder Preparatory charter school, but the Nazi groups members attended multiple schools including Boulder High, Centaurus High in Lafayette, Monarch High in Louisville, Pomona High in Arvada and Colorado Mountain College.
The name Fourth Reich came from the students belief that they are the ideological descendants of Adolf Hitlers Third Reich, the Nazi regime that dominated Germany and sparked World War II. Members regularly talked about executing ni**ers and Jews, invoked Hitlers final solution
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/secret-nazi-group-uncovered-after-colorado-teen-kills-himself-to-prove-his-commitment-to-killing-jews/
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Well, at least he had the decency to take the great advice The Stranger's "Last Days" column used to offer(often after reporting on a murder-suicide somewhere) :
"If you're planning a murder-suicide, do the suicide part first".
(don't mean to sound harsh, and my condolences to the kid's family, but Jesus...)
atreides1
(16,079 posts)Now if all racists would show the same level of dedication this delusional teen did...the world would be a safer place!!!
Behind the Aegis
(53,961 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Seems like a self-correcting problem.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I don't know what can be done about this. Parts of our online world do a LOT of harm to young minds.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I tell ya' - I am so glad I raised three kiddos before all this social media crap was available..grads HS '84, '86, 87 -
There is no excuse for the parents not knowing...unless they knew and their nurturing provided the environment for this behavior...sickening..
Any other children in any of the families involved, should be removed by CPS..drastic..ya' - someone needs to intervene - for the sake of the children as well as the public...
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)There's the #1 Darwin Award nominee for the year.
RonniePudding
(889 posts)Youth is wasted on the young. Sad this little SFB chose this path.
locks
(2,012 posts)is now trying to get his suspension from school revoked because "the club was only a joke". These kids are sick like the Columbine shooters were but we can't put all the blame on parents; our whole society has become more hateful, bigoted, and lacking in compassion. And we have allowed a joker candidate for the most powerful office in the world. Shame on us all.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)Shame on the GOP. . Shame on the idiots taken by the Donald's "stardom". . . "WE" as a society should be ashamed, I suppose, which is probably what you are saying, but I still have to take issue with that. I can honestly say that "I" have NOTHING to do with a society that produces a fool like this as a presidential candidate.
Lots of people should be ashamed. Good liberals who've spotted this fool from afar and made no secret of it have nothing to apologize for.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)Ligyron
(7,633 posts)We'll find out eventually.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)But at least he killed himself rather than somebody else or a group of other people. . . .