A school board member in Ohio did the Nazi salute to the board’s president, who later resigned, during a contentious Tuesday meeting.  Tipp City Schools board member Anne Zakkour said, “…

A school board member in Ohio did the Nazi salute to the board’s president, who later resigned, during a contentious Tuesday meeting.

Tipp City Schools board member Anne Zakkour said, “Oh … Sieg Heil,” before doing the Nazi salute to the group’s head, Simon Patry, during a meeting about transparency in school projects.

Zakkour had tried interrupting Patry during his remarks before Patry told her she was not allowed to speak, leading to her using the Nazi salute.

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The incident is the latest example of how controversial school board meetings have gotten since the pandemic as issues of transparency and curriculum have caused many meetings around the country to bubble over in fury.

  • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    1 year ago

    He sees another board member do a Sieg Heil, even sarcastically, and then resigns? Borderline irresponsible.

    • sin_free_for_00_days
      251·
      1 year ago

      She wasn’t promoting Nazism herself, she was sarcastically calling the president a Nazi. Or the Nazi.

      • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t think she was actually promoting Nazism. But if you Sieg Heil, or use the n-word or any slurs, you better have a good reason. And “council procedure doesn’t allow people to interrupt the president of the board” is not a good enough reason.

        • sin_free_for_00_days
          1·
          1 year ago

          Seemed like it was an ongoing issue and that was just the proverbial straw. Also, the retort may have hit close to the heart for the dude to dip out right after. But, as usual, this is just speculation on my part.

        • Zippy@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          You are comparing the two slurs where there is no comparison. There are many instances where you could legitimately call someone a Nazi. Ie. Calling out a white supremacist as a Nazi.

          There is pretty much zero situations where I can use the n word. (Unless between your race and as a term of endearment)

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think it’s worth it in any case. You can use another example. Doing stuff like this takes away from your point and muddles everything.

    • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      That did seem a little odd to me. I suspect there’s at least a little more to this story that the article didn’t include.

      • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If we’re being charitable, it’s possible that there was a lot of drama generated by the action and the president wanted to avoid that? But still, irresponsible. Resigning in situations like that is how extremists have taken over local and state politics - because no one wants to deal with them.