I'm not offended, but i think one should understand why others are.
Hitler organised and conducted the murder and bad treatment of hundreds and thousands, sayh if, someone murdered your family and lots of other families, and dare i say, became famous, or infamous; then if you saw someone editing pictures of the murderer which one may interpret as being for amusement, would you not be offended?
I am not OFFENDED, but i do find it quite disgusting and unnerving.
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Originally Posted by persephonewillo
i don't like it. it's tasteless.
there are people missing on both sides of my family because of Hitler. and seeing him at all, whether "cutesified" or not, makes me think of my living grandmother who STILL has nightmares about being shot at by SS soldiers because she's Jewish. and about my grandfather, who to this day will not tell a soul what he lived through during his time in a camp. try to tell my family to "chill the f*** out" because you think a doctored photo of Hitler is nothing to get up in arms about.
you can't display a photo of Hitler and not expect to offend. that's being ignorant beyond comprehension.
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I completely agree and i'm incredibly sorry for your family
I find it incredibly hard to understand why one would think it the same humour as south park, i've never watched said programme,b ut unless said programme organised the destruction of countries, families; and COMPLETELY crippled countries and their economies, then, how can it be compared????
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Originally Posted by astronaut
Who said I knew I would offend people by choosing the picture? I never would have expected anyone to be offended unless they happened to be nazis and or idolize Hitler or something so that wasn't a problem for me. You really think having an icon like that would break the terms of service on websites? I actually thought about having it as my icon on specktra but couldn't part with my image of Shin Chan putting on lipstick.
I still don't find what the big deal is about. I find it to be maybe on the same humor level as Family Guy or South Park, but I guess people find offense to that too...
I wanted to note where I obtained the photo from. It was actually on the website of a South Korean cosmetic company called Clio Professional. It was on their cosmetic art page. I bought a couple of their products while in Asia and really liked them so I went browsing on their site and found it.
CLIO Professional
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Well said
I've been to both Germany and Poland, both are very perculiar toward the events of say, 33-46, therefore before, during and after World War Two, i have visited concentration camps and it is eerie, words are barely spoken and i'm sure most would be horrified by said picture.
In Germany, it is rarely mentioned, and if mentioned, most Germans seem unsure of how to discuss the topic
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Originally Posted by armi
Even though Hitler is dead now, he isn't gone. There is still, for example, a war in Israel that has roots to WWII. There is still people alive that are affected by the horrors of Hitler's terrible aims.
I completely understand why some people get offended by your avatar. I have heard that in Germany Hitler is very serious topic, they don't make jokes about the Holocaust and so.
There's always been jokes about the dictators, like Stalin and Mao Zedong, but there is right place and time for those jokes - and it's not somewhere where ANYONE can get offended by them.
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Oh also, for about, my seventh post here!!
There are some people, granted, they are quite old now; that were so traumatised and brainwashed by Hitler, the Nazi Germany, and the Hilter Youth that thye kind of, love Hitler, yes you may not understand but after thorough studies of the life in Hitler's Germany, Hitler's foregin policy and very minute details about almost everything he did and why, or at least, why one thinks, i think its safe to say these people are right to feel that way, i know a Polish woman who was in the Hitler youth, bare in mind most living in Germany, after a certain time, 1936 i believe, were forced to joining Hitler Jugend, obviously if they were a youth!
Anyway, said woman actually still sort of, i don't know how to describe it, but still feels affection toward him, and thus, this would probably upset here.
In conclusion thus i think there are two, and many more reasons why people may be upset; namely, those who have lost lives to Hitler and his fascist regime, and his expansion and aggresion into Eastern Europe, then also, the people that were so brainwashed that they were upset to hear of him dying.
This is similar with when milosevic caused many to be upset when he died, even though he did many bad things
