Re: Remove fortune quotes attributed to or providing admiration of Adolf Hitler [pr bin/52735]

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

i wrote:
 |Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:
 |  ...
 ||I agree that bad history should be remembered in context and not
 ||forgotten. However, that is not what these quotes do. They give no
 ||context, and they make A.H. seem like a relatively normal person. Now if
 ||he was quoted at his worst, it might be obvious what sort of monster he
 ||was, but that is not the effect of these quotes. His crimes against
 ||humanity are trivialised by putting things he said next to people like
 ||Mahatma Gandhi.
 |
 |Difficult given that in the FreeBSD core team there is someone who
 |thinks clean rooms are something desirable.  I do not know what
 |such people think.
 |
 |In my context.  If you look in the eyes of a young girl who has to
 |face the "contempt for mankind", and i quote that, expressed by
 |said subjects, and if all you do is to spend ten minutes of your
 |life with the photos on the single page[1], which took me two
 |minutes to find and i know many many many many more of such photos
 |and many of them more painful than those, then the
 |non-understanding you will see in these eyes is so beautifully
 |expressed by the wonderful Hannah Ahrendt and her "Eichmann in
 |Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil".
 |
 |And also, in Buddhism it is clear that the monkey is the start of
 |it all and it is your personal responsibility to walk the spiral
 |staircase to a "higher ground" and "increase your karma".  It is
 |in us and not talking about it or purport it does not exist does
 |not help at all.  It requires active working, it requires
 |reflection, concentration, and transformation.  Chimpanzees are
 |one of the cruelest kind.  A buddhistic teacher of former times
 |said "be kind with them and silent when they cut you in pieces"
 |(if i recall correctly, this is not truly exact).  For those who
 |stick to the committer: that are not only words, you may try that
 |if you can, search "Lingchi" on the web -- but be aware!
 |
 |You will never be able to reflect something that you do not even
 |know about.  You will never be able to look back over twenty years
 |of time and get ashamed of having gotten something so wrong if
 |you never got even in contact with it at first.  Hitler got his
 |Villa and the entire mountain it stands on as well, a private doctor,
 |a Mercedes-Benz.  Making such deals seems to attract not few
 |people.  You could go on a cheap dreamboat holiday.  The regime
 |was bankrupt very soon, but others had to pay for it already by
 |then, with their resources, money first, humans and other natural
 |ones later.
 |Somehow that reminds me of something.

I have forgotten the URL:

  https://shoaportalvienna.wordpress.com/category/buchenwald/

Ciao, and a nice Sunday.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)