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He went to Auschwitz after being pressured to apologize for some unhinged tweets. This was all before he swig heiled twice on stage. https://www.bbc.com/news/t

• gambiting 1y ago
  That makes it(for me) so much worse, knowing that he's been to Auschwitz and still decided to do it.
  • saubeidl 1y ago
    It makes it an expression of his honest ideology as opposed to a thoughtless troll.
    • layer8 1y ago
      I don’t know, it sounds exactly like what a thoughtless troll would do.
    • gambiting 1y ago
      So...it makes it worse(for me). Instead of being a stupid and foolish thing he did in the moment of high emotions it just confirms he's an actual Nazi. I'm literally from Oswiecim, used to go past Auschwitz on my way to school every day - the richest man on earth doing sieg heils on stage despite visiting this place is filling me with dread.
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• v5v3 1y ago
  Wow, didn't know that. Thanks.
  • fluidcruft 1y ago
    He also has been known to show up at costume parties dressed as a Nazi commander. (Long forgotten controversy from over a decade ago)
    • mschuster91 1y ago
      wtf, the only such instance I remember from a VIP is one of the UK princes. How can these people think that such stuff is acceptable is beyond me.
      • fluidcruft 1y ago
        It came up at the same time as the UK prince as a "wealthy folks just do these things it's funny and not an endorsement you pleebs don't understand" sort of way.
      • kbenson 1y ago
        For what it's worth, a UK prince is one of the few people or groups of people that I would assume were likely not hiding Nazi sympathies. Their entire country, and specifically their recent royal ancestors, where subject to Nazi aggression and responsible for countering it. There's a long history of dressing up as those you want to lampoon, especially in British media.
        • fluidcruft 1y ago
          Well, there is Edward VIII which as an American who doesn't follow UK monarchy drama was flabbergasted and in disbelief to learn about and which triggered a wikipedia rabbithole after seeing in particular the closing credits of The Crown S2E6
          • kbenson 1y ago
            I haven't watched it, and skimming the wikipedia page isn't making it obvious what you might be alluding to, other than maybe him touring Germany prior to the war. I'm not entirely sure where the downvotes came from since other than you nobody bothered to respond, but maybe it's based on people's belief that Nazis are some special and unique threat or that the only thing that should be thought about when they are mentioned is concentration camps and their treatment of the Jewish people, but they did so much more than just that, even if that was uniquely horrifying for the period. The Jews weren't the only people sent to concentration camps, and overall, WWII cost 70-85 million people their lives. Nazi Germany affected so many people, nobody gets to claim them as uniquely their own boogie men to the exclusion of all others.