Terra

Taking a break from study exile:

So youtube removed all those 'Hitler throws a fit about _____' videos

And I have no issues with the company wanting them taken down (Although I think it's cool youtube has a program that the original companies can make money off of videos made with their shit), and that meme is pretty much only amusing the first time you see it, BUT:

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the league was "delighted."
"We find them offensive," said Foxman of the videos. "We feel that they trivialize not only the Holocaust but World War II. Hitler is not a cartoon character."

Ok. They were making fun of Hitler. The bad guy. Th person who SHOULD be ripped down and debases and made fun of. They were trivializing him, and taking away his power.

I don't think, anyway you slice it, you can say those people were mocking the victims of the Holocaust. They were bringing down the person who DID that.

In fact, the directors quote sums it up nicely:

"The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality," Hirschbiegel told the magazine. "I think it's only fair if now it's taken as part of our history and used for whatever purposes people like. If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier.

Like...making mocking Hitler a bad thing just...does not computer. Hitler should be mocked, should be torn down and debased. By saying that saying bad things about HIM is bad, you are giving him WAY too much power. I'm sorry, Hitler's not the poor picked on kid in elementary school you should defend. And I know they were TRYING to say you should trivialize ANYTHING about WW2, but I'm sorry...Hitler is someone who should not be respect, should not be free of bad energy. The last line I'm just like....what.

There's a REASON propaganda made him into a joke...a person who is a joke has no power. this is not something to be feared.