These snowflakes that see nazi's at every turn would have jailed John Cleese for parody I guess.
Posted on 12/06/2019 8:14:45 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - After a photo surfaced of West Virginia correction officer trainees giving what appears to be the Nazi salute, state officials quickly suspended some employees and the governor ordered the firing of those involved.
The image, showing more than two dozen trainees with their arms raised and faces blurred, was released Thursday by the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety. A line of text reading “Hail Byrd” tops the picture, which an agency spokesman said was a reference to the trainees’ instructor.
Before the photo was made public, the agency’s secretary, Jeff Sandy, released a memo describing the image of Basic Training Class Number 18 as “distasteful, hurtful, disturbing, highly insensitive, and completely inappropriate.” He wrote that the picture “betrays the professionalism I have seen time and time again displayed and practiced by our brave correctional employees.”
Republican Gov. Jim Justice issued a statement condemning the photo and ordering the firing of the people involved.
“This will not be tolerated on my watch -- within the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation -- or within any agency of state government,” said Justice.
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What a bunch of airheads.
Everybody needs to take a deep breath and use their brains.
These snowflakes that see nazi's at every turn would have jailed John Cleese for parody I guess.
The “nazis” do not OWN the “nazi salute”. Just because they used some particular thing, doesn’t mean nobody else can ever use it.
“Raise your hands if you want us to fire you for being Nazis”
Does anyone remember how we saluted the flag prior to WWII? Looks a lot like what these goobers are doing.
Nah that’s clearly a mock salute... but not sure why it deserves firing giving the “Hail Byrd”... seems like it was tongue in cheek to their instructor being a bit of a hard ass.... at least that’s what I would assume if I happened across that photo....
Not sure why folks are getting fired over it.
Looked at the photo and all I can say is “Are you kiddin?!?!”
Play stupid games.......
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!
I was referring to the photo.
WOW!
Horrible!
At least they weren’t giving the “OK” sign, right?
/S
It was a Roman salute before it was a Nazi salute.
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