On the first weekend of March, students from Newport Harbor High School hosted party, in which they played a drinking game otherwise known as “rage cage”.
In the “game’’, the students didn’t place the cups in the traditional triangle shape, but instead decided to place the cups onto a swastika. And in case you’re thinking, no, not the Buddhist kind.
We’re talking about the symbol the infamous Nazis used during the horrific events of the holocaust. Not only did they place the cups into a swastika, some of the students even held up the Nazi salute for pictures that went viral on social media.
Once I heard about what these students did I was disgusted. Especially because the students, along with many other people, were defending these actions.
They said that it was a “joke” and that it doesn’t necessarily mean that they support Nazis. But honestly should people be joking about an organization that killed millions of people?
No. Because it’s a sensitive subject that no one should be joking about. And believe me, I love myself some dark humor, but this is just outrageous and disrespectful.
Many other people are outraged as well and it was even reported that some of the students in the picture were getting threatened at school and although I don’t think that the students deserve to be physically or mentally hurt, they should be accountable for their actions.