Twitter decline, Volume 234: Poll asking if the Nazis were the good guys in WW2...

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

I registered my strong disapproval and the poll was reported. If Twitter has any remaining sense, it will ban the two guys who posted the polls. Free Nazi speech, my ass.

on edit: Of course, the super anti-semitic poll question was horrible too.

eta2: corrected number of guys

[keithbvadu2]

1. Because Elon is pro-republican and republicans are pro-Nazi.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. I don't think Elon knows what he's doing anymore

He just wants to be outrageous because it's the only way to get his kicks after becoming too wealthy for his own good. And we are letting this happen to our economic system. His changes to Twitter may yet implode the thing. Or someone will shake to his sense and make it a respectable place to be again.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Do they no longer teach history in this country?!

[FuzzyRabbit]

5. No. They haven't for many years.

Many years ago I looked at my nephew's world history book.

It had three pages about the Beatles. And it had two paragraphs about WW2.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Yikes! When I was in 10th grade we had an entire year of World History

The causes of WWI and WWII were discussed in depth... Then 11th grade was a year of American History.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Not Like That Here

Since I retired, I substitute teach in the winter.
While I mostly do science & math, I do 3 or 4 social studies classes per semester.
I see nothing here like what you're seeing.
For 8th grade, there was an entire unit on WW2. Probably a dozen chapters.
I did a class on China for 7th grade last term. I'd have to guess it took close to 2 weeks to cover that stuff.
Whatever text they use in schools here, they're definitely not fluff.

[Duppers]

14. OMG! Who published this textbook?

I have a good friend in FL whose very reichwing cousin is a textbook rep for the Southeast US.

No wonder your nephew's textbook only had two paragraphs about WW2; the "Nazis" are gaining control wherever they can and they begin brainwashing early.

[stage left]

3. Twitter needs to die.

Now.

[J_William_Ryan]

7. Conservatives destroy everything they touch.

Conservativism is the bane of humankind.

[Emrys]

8. Like many people who aren't neo-nazis, I find I already had @elijahschaffer blocked some time ago.

For that reason, I never saw the poll even if I'd have been inclined to legitimize it by voting. It also meant I couldn't report it.

Winning twitter polls never proves anything other than that the poll was won.

Of course, the poll should never have been posted, Twitter should have removed it, and it should have banned that troll account long ago, thereby depriving Schaffer of what appears to be his sole reason for continuing to exist.

[Duppers]

15. Indeed!

[Emrys]

18. It's a kinda self-selecting wingnut poll!

The results aren't surprising, albeit a little depressing.

[maxrandb]

9. We do ourselves a disservice, and it's dangerous to assume

That fascism and Nazism isn't a majority in this country.

[Trenzalore]

10. After they are finished with ginning up hate on the LGBTQ

The Jews are next. They have already started in the far right circles.

[Marius25]

16. Yup. Jews are always targets. The Nazis started with LGBTQ people first

Then went for Jews.

[Polybius]

11. Why would you want to report the poll?

It's who voted yes that's more problematic than the poll questions, isn't it? Plus, don't you want to know? The poll questionnaire might not be a Nazi, it could be someone who wants to see how many anti-Semites there are.

[Emrys]

12. The jerk who posted the poll claims to be a Jew,

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and in response to the complaints about it in his replies, he just says he's gauging public opinion.

From the rest of his posts, he's just a megatroll with far too much time on his hands and no meaningful life outside Twitter who loves the attention. That's no doubt why I already had him blocked, which I'd forgotten about and moved briskly on.

Anyway, the replies gave me a handy stream of accounts to block till I got bored with the whole thing.

[sarisataka]

19. I agree,

The question is not the problem. It is the answers.

[Takket]

17. meh. i'm sure those polls are skewed by smartasses who just thinks its funny to vote Nazi

for the outrage factor.