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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

They're being ironic and edgy. Probably.

The question is only whether you consider ironic racism (in this case mocking 19th and 20th century "race science" with reversals of focus) to be racism regardless.

I don't think so, but there's also always elements of Poe's Law to consider. Not to mention that, for example, British and American racists literally said these things unironically about Germans, reaching fever pitches in WW1.

[–] Zomg -3 points 6 days ago (9 children)

We all know words can't really express sarcasm or other underlying feelings or meanings very clearly. Without a /s your only able to assume if the they did or didn't actually mean that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right, but there's enough social context going on to generally assume that stans for the philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles probably don't actually consider Germans a form of untermensch.

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[–] ChicoSuave 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It doesn't matter their political system or economic alignment, authoritarians always look for unproven or racist ideas to divide others away from themselves. It doesn't matter what race or for which political idea, racism is always bad and corrupts all ideas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

well said. Shame they don't see that

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[–] satanmat 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I’m just going to continue to be happy I don’t know what Hexbear is…

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Probably best to add it to your instance blocklist now and nip that shit in the bud before you do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

They actually have some reasonable people though so I don't see a need to block the entire instance. (They know Linux, self hosting and privacy pretty well.)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What did Rammstein do again?

[–] Dagamant 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Gave groupies better seating so they could have easy access to them after shows. Potentially drugging some of them although that was never proven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammstein#Concert_misconduct_allegations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

But Ramstein won in court and the people aren't allowed to spread that stuff anymore.

[–] NOT_RICK 25 points 1 week ago

I saw them in Philly a few years ago. At the end of the show they had their cam feed point to women to flash the camera. Whoever was directing the feed kept cutting back to one woman who was obviously not comfortable with it, definitely left a bad taste in my mouth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well that's disappointing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Originally posted by @[email protected] but the post didn't focus on this

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