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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Nazi Grows in Alabama
A church in Alabama highlighted America's addiction to taking quotes out context when it quoted Adolf Hitler on a billboard that was supposed to be about child education.
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Here, of course, its not just context thats completely out of whack. Its also unbelievable that anyone would use a quote from Hitler in the first place. And, in an incredible twist, the church billboard attributed the quote correctly to that insane brain-washer of youth and mass murder. So its not as if they didnt realize who they were quoting.
Original post, containing source links and a quiz, is located here: http://lesterandcharlie.com/2014/06/06/a-nazi-grows-in-alabama/
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A Nazi Grows in Alabama (Original Post)
bondwooley
Jun 2014
OP
I got a 78% on the quiz apparently I am smarter than a fifth grader. Not only that, fifth graders
okaawhatever
Jun 2014
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scrubthedata
(382 posts)1. What I'd really like to see
is Microsoft using a Rube Goldberg quote as their new slogan.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)2. I got a 78% on the quiz apparently I am smarter than a fifth grader. Not only that, fifth graders
and I both know what a bad idea it is to quote Hitler, this church group not so much.
scrubthedata
(382 posts)3. You've got that right.
At least about 5th graders. I bet you're a little smarter than them.
fayhunter
(221 posts)4. One thing's for sure
You can always figure out when Dan Quayle said something. And, sadly, it's never misquoted.
Palin is a runner up.