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Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community
New submitter Seven Spirals writes: Recently, the FreeBSD folks have removed Fortune with a fairly predictable far right 4chan condemnation. Then last weekend saw a lively debate on NetBSD's current-users mailing list about the inclusion of Hitler quotes in the Fortune database with dozens of posts falling on the left and right. The quotes themselves are fairly tame material probably intended as cautionary. However, the controversy and the reaction of BSD users has been real and very diverse. So far, the result has been to pull Fortune out of FreeBSD and to relocate the quotes into the "offensive" database in NetBSD's case.
Some people enjoy getting trolled, but I refuse to care about something so nonsensical as fortune. Is it stable? Can it be used to run exploits or escalate privileges? If not, then I don't care. For people who care, fork it or overload with -nohitler parameter.
The hacker community has always been full of people with a certain kind of personality. That kind of personality can laugh at Hitler. But hackers are a dying breed. Software development is no longer driven by that "hacker" personality, and the software development community now has to be much more sensitive and respectful of a more diverse population. Which means no more Hitler jokes, or casual swearing, or crude innuendos, or Monty Python references, or etc etc. Oh well, it was fun (for the hackers) while it lasted.
No, you fucking idiot! Nazis were a far-right group from the outset founded by ex-soldiers angry at the Weimar government as scapegoat for loss in the great war where it had been drummed into their heads they would win, like their fathers and fathers fathers. The whole massive upheaval in industrial warfare reaching the frontlines on a continuous basis wasn't considered, they thought they were betrayed. That is the same sentiment that plays into the hatred of "jews" or the modern form "sjw" where everyone else knows what they really mean, and how stupid it all is. Next time they won't get away with killing the innocent, instead now any Nazi imitators will be the very first to die.
/g/ isn't """alt-right"", and to assume anyone who is annoyed with the trend of ignoring or removing history is """alt-right""" is foolish.
In Germany we memorialize the victims, not the criminals. That is the better method. The majority of the confederate statues are not from the US civil war but from the era of the fight for civil rights. They functioned as intended then, as threats to the people fighting to be equals. That is why now they have no history worth saving, and must be destroyed to destroy the last vestige of implied approval for segregationist idiocy.
They are still available to install if someone feels like being edgy, and there was already a defined repository for other offensive material. This is a non issue in my opinion.
A marketing slogan with no actual meaning. How democratic is the DPRK?
The problem is, there is too much of a population who are intellectually unable to understand sarcasm, or understand a cautionary statement when they see it.
For example "In WWII in Germany the Trains Run on Time" This should be a cautionary statement explaining that efficiency at the expense of freedom isn't a good bargain, and that often cruel/evil regimes will strong arm improvements, but at a large cost.
Much of the hate speech that is on Slashdot today, isn't sarcasm, or parody. It is actually hateful speech from hateful people. What a difference 10 years make.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
% fortune -m 'Joseph Stalin'
%% (fortunes)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin
%%
Even God cannot change the past.
-- Joseph Stalin
%%
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
-- Joseph Stalin
%%
In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
-- Joseph Stalin
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
When categorize Nazi party as being left or right, rather than compare it to the communists, you could just as well compare the Nazis to the Weimar republic. You can't get consistent answers if you do that.
Personally, I think that labeling parties right/left (or even worse policies as right/left) engenders sloppy thinking and is often, if not usually, a tool for deceptive speech. In the case of labeling 20th century fascist movements as being right/left, you might as well try to categorize apples, grapes, and watermelons into right/left fruits. They are their own kind of thing and such simple binary labeling only serve to obscure what they are, and to obscure the nature of whatever they are being compared to.
The âoesocialistâ part of âoenational socialismâ is only marginally related to traditional socialism. Iâ(TM)m reading Mein Kampf right now and Hitler hated socialists and communists. But he did not care for capitalism either.
National socialism was to exist as an in between, or a right wing, nationalist version of anti-capitalism. It was definitely not a left wing ideology.
Nazi stands for national socialist workers' party.
The Nazis were originally socialist, and had a strong socialist faction up until 1934, when the leader of that faction, Ernst Rohm, was murdered on Hitler's order along with many other "leftists". This consolidated Adolf's authority, and made it easier for him to work with German industrialists. All economies are a mixture of socialist and private enterprise, but after 1934, saying Nazi Germany was "socialist" makes as much sense as saying that China is "communist".
Movements like the Nazis are more accurately described as authoritarian. Liberal or conservative, pro-labor or pro-management are positions such a party takes for sake of expediency. They had no problem with contradicting themselves; they always fit their position to the occasion. They were "National Socialists" when gaining support from disaffected workers was vital, but as soon as they had their hands on national power immediately violently purged the socialists from their ranks.
There is really one and only one consistent feature of their ideology: Führerprinzip or the leader principle. That basically means leaving the thinking to the higher-ups. If your superior seemed to contradict himself, that wasn't your problem, it was his.
It's always about personalities with authoritarians, and the leader can say or do no wrong.
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He tells you *exactly* how he intends to operate:
*The great masses of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.
*How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
*The leader of genius must have the ability to make many opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
*Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
*I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Hitler and the Nazis were stridently anti-intellectual, for the very good reason that people who think critically are very difficult to manipulate. They were very big on feelings: from mawkishly sentimental art to the deliciously transgressive license of a good riot. In fact the rioters only feel liberated; they're actually doing their masters' bidding.
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