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11:57 - NEW POPE IS NAZI LOL WTF!!1!1
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2822
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It's always refreshing when one of the lone voices of sanity on the Internet comes from Something Awful.
I’m going to build a time machine. What I’m going to do is take old Bill here back in time to 1941 Germany. We’re going to sit there and wait for the Nazis to find him and say, “Join us or die.” Bill Berkowitz (Uhm, we’ll have to change that last name for this to work) is going say, “Sorry folks, but I humbly oppose the Nazi regime and I don’t wish to join your organization.” and we’ll see what happens.
George Washington owned slaves during his lifetime. He didn’t want to and in his heart he knew it was wrong but he did anyway. It was the cool thing to do at the time. Slavery was just another fad like pogs or Pokemon. But in 1976 he was posthumously appointed the grade of General of the Armies of the United States, the highest ranking military position the U.S. has to offer. The fact that he owned slaves didn’t seem to bother anyone. The fact that Joseph Ratzinger involuntarily joined the Hitler Youth shouldn’t bother anyone either.
But it will, as long as some people can use it to fuel the storybook image they have of the world in which WWII was that far-off time when good and evil existed, people who committed atrocities were otherworldly beings in man-suits (certainly, anything but human), and the human race was absolved of having to base their decisions in this gray modern world on any sort of moral clarity as long as you say enough things like "How many Nazi salutes did he give? How many times did "Sieg Heil" come out of his mouth?" when you think the right people are listening.
UPDATE: Brummbar has more.
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Brian Tiemann
