244
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
all 17 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

I always found it weird that the term "Schreibtischtäter" (desk murderer) is only used for Nazis and DDR politicians but noone else. It makes it pretty clear that indirect murder is seen as acceptable in our society as long as you are part of the current hegemony.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

It's parallel to western view of soviet (etc, etc) prisons while tellingly ignoring their own.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Arendt used a different term to describe the same thing but "Schreibtischtäter" was first used in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You missed this part:

Hannah Arendt, who reported on Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker, published Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963, a book sometimes falsely credited with being the source of the term "desk murderer". In this book she described him and his associates as the "modern, state-employed mass murderers" and talks of the "bureaucracy of murder". She first used the term "desk murderer" in early 1965 but this was not translated into German at the time and she herself did not use Schreibtischtäter in any of her German language publications. She used the term "desk murderer" in an English introduction to the report by German journalist Bernd Naumann on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in 1966 and, from there, it was translated to the German Schreibtischtäter.

The German origin of "desk murder" dates from 1964, when the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung used the term for the first time.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I get it, I'm cool with it,but I'm not gonna use it when the first paragraph is this:

The term "desk murderer" (German: Schreibtischtäter)[1] is attributed to Hannah Arendt and is used to describe state-employed mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, who planned and organised the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally.[2]

Somebody needs to edit that shit. Where's the lady that removes all the Wikipedia Nazi propaganda?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the German wiki entry is a bit better with that.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims

The top result:

Luis Garavito - Possible victims: 194–300+

If we calculated the number of victims Brian Thompson had, let alone any social murderer, anyone on this list wouldn't warrant a wikipedia article. These absolute fucking freaks dwarf the death tolls of nuclear weapons. I can't imagine being depraved enough to side with them.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Normalize referring to modern bureaucrats that cause suffering and death as little Eichmanns.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"I was just following ~~orders~~ my fiduciary obligation."

[-] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

in Israel and the USA, people are murdering thousands at a time by sitting at a desk and signing papers. Getting angry about it is punishable by death

[-] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I've always found youtube comments to be more tolerable since the cracker-per-capita stat is lower

this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
244 points (99.2% liked)

politics

22724 readers
94 users here now

Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.

Labour and union posts go to The Labour Community.

Take any slop posts to the slop trough

Main is good for shitposting.

Do not post direct links to reactionary sites.

Off topic posts will be removed.

Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember we're all comrades here.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS