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Michigan State University 'deeply sorry' for Hitler image displayed on video boards before football game (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] infinitepcg 87 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand what is supposed to be the offense here. It was a trivia question about world history. In the context it was clearly not an endorsement.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, considering Nazis are becoming a problem again, it's a bad look.

[–] 3ntranced 28 points 10 months ago

They've been a consistent problem since the 1930s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yes, ignoring and not acknowledging and teaching history is a good way to not repeat it.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there are people in the audience who would rather not be reminded of the person who murdered their family members when they’re just trying to go to a game. Treating Hitler like a distant history factoid that couldn’t have impacted anyone alive is at minimum ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By this logic, would a question about the Soviet Union also be bad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you think it would be normal for a question about the Holodomor to appear?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, but the analogous question would be something like “where was Stalin born”.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not possible to mention or show Hitler without invoking the Holocaust, they're inseparable in the public consciousness. It would be like asking trivia about another genocide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

There's both a boatload of questions about Hitler that don't involve the Holocaust and a lot of topics that would inherently do if you ignore that fact.

Every question regarding the Jewish people could be seen as linked to that genocide too, just like Armenians and Rwandese. Can there be questions about those people that don't evolve the specifics of the particular genocide.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

lol, it's kind of fun to think of 'offensive' trivia

In what year did the Confederate States of America secede from the USA?

The the Soviet Union was the union of how many socialist republics?

Which two African nations remained de jure independent during "the scramble for Africa?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

They never got Ethiopia.

Thank you, History of the World I guess!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ethiopia and Eswatini?

[–] Pat12 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what timing....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That sign below..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing the Duckett Brothers would be less than thrilled about this.

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 10 months ago

The real reason MSU is deeply sorry, right there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only one ball🎶

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Poor old Goebbels.

[–] mlg 27 points 10 months ago

The fact that the sign right under reads "We never drop the ball" and this is coming form the game against Michigan where they lost 49-0 really brings it all together lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They did nazi that coming.

[–] seaQueue 14 points 10 months ago

I know reich?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I feel like the world would be a better place if people decided to wait and see if things seem like a good idea for two days in a row instead of just doing it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

We can't show a picture of Hitler? I guess he must be Muhammad, then.