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

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[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

They've been a consistent problem since the 1930s

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago

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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 2 years ago

They never got Ethiopia.

Thank you, History of the World I guess!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ethiopia and Eswatini?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

what timing....

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

That sign below..

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The real reason MSU is deeply sorry, right there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Only one ball🎶

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Poor old Goebbels.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

They did nazi that coming.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I know reich?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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