Another day, another case of manufactured outrage.
A schoolgirl’s class assignment has sparked outrage after she reportedly came in dressed as Adolf Hitler and wrote ‘I was pretty great.’
An image of the essay was hung on the walls of a school in New Jersey for weeks, leading to anger within the community.
Responding to the furore the school said in a statement that the assignment had been ‘taken out of context’ and when others saw the pupil’s work they ‘didn’t understand’ it.
The class assignment was given to a group of school children in Maugham Elementary School in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Because, of course an essay about the rise of the Nazis is now verboten. We aren’t allowed to discuss or analyse the past. From the story, it seems the child in question threw herself into the assignment and did the necessary research. The essay was merely a fairly basic recital of the history of the period delivered in the first person and I’m sure that Hitler did think he was pretty great. Oh, and she dressed the part. Well, why not? It would add colour to the delivery.
But now we have the fairly typical social media backlash and outrage and why bother about little things like context when there is a twitter storm to fan? And as each day passes, I realise just what poison social media is.
My God, but if Hitler had been around today, he would have had little difficulty overcoming allies as wet as the current generation. They would all run away and hide in their safe places.
I suspect the real offence is the statement “My belief in antisemitism made me kill 6 million Jews” because of course antisemitism is acceptable in left-wing ideology; to state that it might have deliberately killed a few million people prompts the dangerous thought process “just how many people has left-wing ideology deliberately killed?”
Nor do they want the rise of the Nazis spoken about too much at present given the parallels we see growing day by day.
How long till us refuseniks are compelled to wear some form of identity, maybe a yellow star could be worn to show our status in the new utopia, what next some sort of tattoo?
“but if Hitler had been around today,”
Read the book “Look Who’s Back”. It’s both hysterically funny, and terrifying.
It was written by a German author: no one else would dare.
Strongly recommended.
There’s a film too: I’ve only seen the first 30m and that was pretty good.
Humour and ridicule is the only defence against such types.
Have you seen the story over at Julia’s place about Spain’s racist stamps?
Thank God they didn’t have Spike Milligan and his Q series in the USA in the 1970s. Adolf Hitler sings: My Yiddisha momma. Adolf Hitler does: Al Jolson; et al.
Maybe she borrowed the uniform from her newly-adopted countryman, Prince Harry, he’s apparently not worn it recently.
I seem to recall that Freddy Star used to lampoon Hitler.
Why Hitler? The teacher could have dressed as Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, or Pol Pot, all examples of good socialist leaders, responsible for bumping off millions and millions of their countrymen, women, and children for the sake of a warped political ideal disguised as a ‘class struggle’. No doubt that would have been OK.