r/arizona 3d ago

Politics Video: Deer Valley school board member gives Nazi salute

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/video-deer-valley-school-board-member-nazi-salute-40670156/
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u/Purple-Mud5057 2d ago

Okay so some pretty important context is missing, not that the context makes what she did okay but may change the severity of it.

This wasn’t someone just being like “oh man I love Hitler and his ideals.” The chair of the board was calling for some vote she was against (not sure what was) but she disliked it enough that she likened him to Hitler and was doing that to call him Hitler.

Absolutely not okay, but it’s the difference between the harsh sentiment many people are giving here and a simple case of her simply needing to be fired from the district.

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u/dr_mackdaddy Phoenix 2d ago

She did it over scheduling a meeting. Not even over a topic. Just scheduling a meeting.

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u/MrKrinkle151 2d ago

But a record-breakingly short example of Godwin’s law is still fundamentally different from something like Elon Musk telling a crowd of right-wing nutjobs that his “heart goes out to them”. This lady might otherwise suck, but this whole story is a real eye roll nothingburger.

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u/dr_mackdaddy Phoenix 2d ago

I mean it shows she's not mature enough for this job. I went to high school in this district so it means more to me.

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u/MrKrinkle151 2d ago

I agree, but that is a completely different point from the one that’s being implied here.

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u/SignoreBanana 2d ago

Satire is ok in all forms, imo. This is a complete nothing burger.

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u/Moominsean 3d ago

She was most likely calling the other school board members nazis, not demontrating her love for Hitler.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/meeoows 3d ago

The Republicans have been infiltrating public schools for a long time. They want private schools that teach dinosaurs aren't real, the earth is only 6k years old, etc. they hate facts and science. They hate teachers that teach kids equality. They only want christo fascism.

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u/Hefty_Debt_638 3d ago

🤣 ok

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u/just-jane-again 3d ago

wow what a compelling and highly intelligent rebuttal.

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u/Ralphanate 3d ago

To be fair, all brain cells are fried in forming their rebuttal.

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u/Im_not_smelling_that 3d ago

You went to a school like that didn't you?

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u/JMThor 3d ago

Why are you laughing? The poster is correct... the Republicans have been destroying education for the last 50 years, trying to force their creationist bullshit down everyone's throats.

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u/jaymae77 2d ago

Calm the fuck down

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u/JMThor 2d ago

You should take your own advice

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u/petrichor83 3d ago

I’m noticing a trend of MAGA intentionally doing something to get attention, getting repercussions for it, and then trying to milk it for notoriety/sympathy money from their fake oppression victim narrative. I mean dear leader is king grifter so I’m not surprised.

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u/Amatheiaisnoexcuse 3d ago

It wasn't a great idea to respond with that gesture, but it seems to be directed towards the Chairs firm stance towards parental participation?

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u/Wash_zoe_mal Phoenix 3d ago

Make Nazis afraid again

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u/Typical_Passenger924 3d ago

Everyone is just comfortable being the worst side of themselves openly now its sad. The social contract has been broken by this administration idk if we can ever even get it back…

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u/Mediocretes08 3d ago

Calling for her censure isn’t gonna cut it. She needs to be ejected not just from the board but from public life. No job should hire her because the first thing they find out about her is she’s like this.

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u/slick514 1d ago

Context is everything. In this case understanding the context turns things from “horrific” to “Ok, I get it, but don’t do that shit again…”

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u/warrenao 3d ago

In a statement on Thursday morning, fellow Deer Valley board member Stephanie Simacek, who was sitting right next to Fisher at the time of the salute, called for the “immediate censure” of Fisher over what Simacek said was antisemitic behavior.

Oh for Chrissakes, it was an infantile tantrum. A wiser snark response might’ve been to snap off a traditional naval salute and an “Aye-aye, Cap’n Bligh,” and of course a cold silence would’ve been the best response, but I don’t imagine this dingbat cosplays in SS toggery and goose-steps back and forth in front of the three-way mirror when she’s at home.

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u/jackofallcards 3d ago

Yeah, it was obviously her calling the president or whoever Hitler or a dictator or whatever, but it’s pretty damn stupid to do the actual salute especially in a school board meeting.

People are stupid if they think she was “expressing her views” or they just didn’t read the article because they don’t know how to read.

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u/MrKrinkle151 2d ago

Yeah the amount of terminally online people huffing and puffing here about this is alarming. People form whole ass opinions based on a headline, which is why it’s increasingly so easy to influence any narrative you want through the internet.

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u/warrenao 3d ago

But reading articles is haaaaaaaaard-uh.

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u/PinkPaintedSky 2d ago

Her tantrums have no place in the workplace and this is one of many. She should be removed for her unprofessional behavior.

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u/warrenao 2d ago

I agree it's unprofessional and extremely childish. I do not agree that she was indicating Nazi or "anti-semitic" sentiment.

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u/Specialist-Box-9711 2d ago

Claims to be master race...is the same size and shape as the red balls in front of target. Lol.

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u/artguydeluxe 3d ago

I’m sure this will go well for her.

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u/suppadelicious 3d ago

She's probably going to get invited to the White House

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u/artguydeluxe 3d ago

I think she exceeds the weight limit for the president to want to have anything to do with her. That seems to be the only criteria for him.

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u/suppadelicious 3d ago

She’s also too old.

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u/JaQ-o-Lantern 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/elbwjRLmCxLug4TU51

Looks like someone is gonna get a new job here.

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u/GMaddog23 3d ago

I did nazi see that coming /s

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u/josch0001 3d ago

If it’s ok to do at the presidential inauguration then it should be ok to do it at a school board meeting.

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u/lovestorun 3d ago

It’s never okay. Why don’t we take that stand?

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u/josch0001 3d ago

I am. Gop voters aren’t. They liked it.

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u/Hefty_Debt_638 3d ago

There’s more to this story. Of course the New Times is going to run it this way. Be careful people. There are always two sides to the story. 

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u/CritiCallyCandid 3d ago

What's the other side of the story? Are you just here to distract little one?

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u/omgfakeusername 2d ago

The other side here is that she was doing what she did in mock-mimicry of how he was running the committee, and she felt he didn't allow her procedure he should have, ergo what she did as a mirror to him.

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u/MrKrinkle151 2d ago

If you watch the video, it’s pretty obvious she was calling the other members Nazis for shutting her down. Childish, sure, but they’re desperately trying to make it something that it so clearly isn’t at all. It’s annoying and disingenuous.

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u/meluvranch 1d ago

What a sack of shit that person is