I have some advice for the NYT and other media outlets about covering Nazis....

[steve2470]

Last edited Sun Nov 26, 2017, 07:06 PM - Edit history (2)

You need to lay out in excruciating detail what they stand for. Their underlying desire to murder innocent people or at the very minimum, their desire to put innocent people in concentration camps for their religion, skin color, ethnicity, political orientation, etc.

The Nazis were the very worst scum of the earth to ever walk the earth, IMHO. I make no apologies for saying that, because it's true. Media outlets have a moral obligation to make sure readers and viewers know it also. We still have monsters in plain garb walking amongst us. They need to be identified as monsters.

Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/reader-center/readers-accuse-us-of-normalizing-a-nazi-sympathizer-we-respond.html

[american_ideals]

1. Bess Bell says it best about the error the NYT made:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/934520192738226176

Fuck the Nazi's house and fuck the Nazi's name and fuck the Nazi's faux intellectual books and fuck this editor for not replacing this awful headline with "White Male Inferiority Complex Incarnate Who Advocates for Murderous Racial Cleansing Buys Groceries, Too!"
Get ready to read a fucking sentence. It's a sentence about a Nazi. Are you ready? Lay the fuck down.

Here goes.

Quick reminder: It's about a fucking Nazi. A Nazi. Nazi. It's a sentence about a Nazi.

"In person, his Midwestern manners would please anyone’s mother."
You know who had nice manners? The Nazi who shaved my uncle Willie's head before escorting him into a cement chamber where he locked eyes with children as their lungs filled with poison and they suffocated to death in agony.

Too much? Exactly. That's how you write about Nazis.
Also, @nytimes, the polite Nazis cleaned the chambers as best they could, but they couldn't scrub the bloody scratches off the walls and ceilings. The ceilings. The bodies of children in mass graves were found clutching each other, their skeletal faces masks of abject terror.
And after work, they went home and bought groceries.

[steve2470]

2. yep she said it very well

They are monsters who just look like humans.

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

I'd advise covering them in holes that are at least 10 feet deep.

[steve2470]

4. agreed

Even zoos are too humane. They are soulless monsters. They need to go live on an island separated from the rest of humanity.