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If anyone is actually upset by that picture they are either hypersensitive, or are just looking for something to be offended over so they can act like they are a better person than everyone else
.Hugo.If anyone is actually upset by that picture they are either hypersensitive, or are just looking for something to be offended over so they can act like they are a better person than everyone else
.Hugo.If anyone is actually upset by that picture they are either hypersensitive, or are just looking for something to be offended over so they can act like they are a better person than everyone else
this so much. Don't even know why anyone would waste time on typing out an article regarding that stuff.
I think her "caption" she posted was the more inappropriate thing.
My bet is, If she would would've said something like, "I finally made it, dad...etc.." Something sentimental, the media backlash wouldn't have existed.
Saw this yesterday and definitely don't think its newsworthy.
I've been to Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland and its real sad and everything, I wasn't smiling or joking around with my sister while there. There was definitely a weird quiet and eerie feeling to the place, you can just feel that something horrendous happened there.
That being said, if you're just someone who is a total idiot and doesn't really care about history in the slightest and just thinks "oh thats a boring history museum, just like the other 20 we went to while traveling in Europe" the girl just snapped a pic of her smiling and tweeted it just like any self absorbed teenage idiot. There are people who spraypaint over holocaust memorials and shit, but the girl who tweeted a selfie? I bet there are thousands of visitors a year that take a picture there smiling, when you have a picture being taken you generally smile.. its just muscle memory
That or shes anti semitic and a national socialist
You gotta remember tho, this isnt that odd for a stupid 16 yo girl. She isnt old/smart enough to have the foresight that smiling in a selfie at auschwitz isnt a good idea
.Hugo.If anyone is actually upset by that picture they are either hypersensitive, or are just looking for something to be offended over so they can act like they are a better person than everyone else
Boom. This fake outrage culture we have is fucking sickening.
I don't understand how you can advocate something like this. Millions died there and in the 500+ other camps across Europe. Sure it isn't news, but it's sickeningly disrespectful.
I haven't been to Auschwitz, I've been to Dachau (another concentration camp near Munich. It's definitely not a place you spend a lot of time smiling. Sombre is a good description.
Some girl taking a selfie is not newsworthy. I hate selfie's at the best of times so I'm not a fan of her taking on in a concentration camp, but I don't think shs did it in a particularly disrespectful way. I mean it's not like she did it in front of the piles of shoes/suitcases/hair/etc. It could have been far worse than it was.
TurkeltonI don't understand how you can advocate something like this. Millions died there and in the 500+ other camps across Europe. Sure it isn't news, but it's sickeningly disrespectful.
more fake outrage, keep it coming. no one's advocating taking a selfie at a deathcamp, we're pointing out much like you're doing, people put on a nice pseudo sense of outrage when you guys won't give a ratass next week about this girl.
DeebieSkeebiesmore fake outrage, keep it coming. no one's advocating taking a selfie at a deathcamp, we're pointing out much like you're doing, people put on a nice pseudo sense of outrage when you guys won't give a ratass next week about this girl.
Fuck off, I don't give about this girl. It's just disgusting people do stuff like this, even graffiti. Have you been to any of the camps? It's crazy, you stand where tens of thousands have died. Walking through the gas chamber at Dachau was surreal. Even though in terms of the Holocaust not many died in the chamber there, but it's still a place where people died.
It's just disgusting that people can do things like this, disrespecting the people murdered there.
You probably don't even know what went on at Auschwitz. In the summer of 1944, the Nazis shipped in over 2 million Hungarians and easterners. The gas chambers could handle them, 2000 killed an hour with 5000 coming in every hour or so. The crematoriums couldn't keep up. The Nazis dug 5 pits, 25m long, 8m deep. They filled them with petrol and set them on fire. They dumped the bodies there instead, and it was reported from both Auschwitz and Treblinka to be over 1000 degrees centigrade. 2000 an hour killed and dumped. the elderly and sometimes children they would pile onto lorries and push them in alive. The fat of the bodies was ordered to be stirred around so it was on at all times, stirred by the prisoners. This went on 24 hours a day for over 3 months.
You've got Mengele there as well, Ilse Koch in Buchenwald who would skin prisoners alive. At Treblinka, in 2012, an archaeological survey discovered children bones crushed and skulls of unknown shot, dumped into shallow, mass graves unknown to the numbers before.
This attitude ,not only exclusive of this dumb batch, is an outrage and absolutely disgusting. Sure I may not remember this girl, but I remember what went on for millions of dead and survivors. This is disgustingly disrespecting to those that were there in any camp.
TurkeltonFuck off, I don't give about this girl. It's just disgusting people do stuff like this, even graffiti. Have you been to any of the camps? It's crazy, you stand where tens of thousands have died. Walking through the gas chamber at Dachau was surreal. Even though in terms of the Holocaust not many died in the chamber there, but it's still a place where people died.
It's just disgusting that people can do things like this, disrespecting the people murdered there.
You probably don't even know what went on at Auschwitz. In the summer of 1944, the Nazis shipped in over 2 million Hungarians and easterners. The gas chambers could handle them, 2000 killed an hour with 5000 coming in every hour or so. The crematoriums couldn't keep up. The Nazis dug 5 pits, 25m long, 8m deep. They filled them with petrol and set them on fire. They dumped the bodies there instead, and it was reported from both Auschwitz and Treblinka to be over 1000 degrees centigrade. 2000 an hour killed and dumped. the elderly and sometimes children they would pile onto lorries and push them in alive. The fat of the bodies was ordered to be stirred around so it was on at all times, stirred by the prisoners. This went on 24 hours a day for over 3 months.
You've got Mengele there as well, Ilse Koch in Buchenwald who would skin prisoners alive. At Treblinka, in 2012, an archaeological survey discovered children bones crushed and skulls of unknown shot, dumped into shallow, mass graves unknown to the numbers before.
This attitude ,not only exclusive of this dumb batch, is an outrage and absolutely disgusting. Sure I may not remember this girl, but I remember what went on for millions of dead and survivors. This is disgustingly disrespecting to those that were there in any camp.
She took a picture.... she didnt piss on any of the mass grave sites, destroy or disrespect the property, put up the hail hitler hand gesture, or wear nazi memorabilia. She just. took. a selfie.... That is in no way disrespecting the people that died there
.Hugo.She took a picture.... she didnt piss on any of the mass grave sites, destroy or disrespect the property, put up the hail hitler hand gesture, or wear nazi memorabilia. She just. took. a selfie.... That is in no way disrespecting the people that died there
It's certainly not respecting the people that died there.
snobunnyI think the point is that she is just unintelligent--it doesn't appear as though her intent was offend people.
I understand this, her ignorance is showing. Which is why when people do stuff like this, they're not intentionally disrespecting anything. But they are not respecting anything either.
theBearJewI understand this, her ignorance is showing. Which is why when people do stuff like this, they're not intentionally disrespecting anything. But they are not respecting anything either.
I actually meant to quote reply that other guy--turkleton or whatever, but yeah.
TurkeltonFuck off, I don't give about this girl. It's just disgusting people do stuff like this, even graffiti. Have you been to any of the camps? It's crazy, you stand where tens of thousands have died. Walking through the gas chamber at Dachau was surreal. Even though in terms of the Holocaust not many died in the chamber there, but it's still a place where people died.
It's just disgusting that people can do things like this, disrespecting the people murdered there.
You probably don't even know what went on at Auschwitz. In the summer of 1944, the Nazis shipped in over 2 million Hungarians and easterners. The gas chambers could handle them, 2000 killed an hour with 5000 coming in every hour or so. The crematoriums couldn't keep up. The Nazis dug 5 pits, 25m long, 8m deep. They filled them with petrol and set them on fire. They dumped the bodies there instead, and it was reported from both Auschwitz and Treblinka to be over 1000 degrees centigrade. 2000 an hour killed and dumped. the elderly and sometimes children they would pile onto lorries and push them in alive. The fat of the bodies was ordered to be stirred around so it was on at all times, stirred by the prisoners. This went on 24 hours a day for over 3 months.
You've got Mengele there as well, Ilse Koch in Buchenwald who would skin prisoners alive. At Treblinka, in 2012, an archaeological survey discovered children bones crushed and skulls of unknown shot, dumped into shallow, mass graves unknown to the numbers before.
This attitude ,not only exclusive of this dumb batch, is an outrage and absolutely disgusting. Sure I may not remember this girl, but I remember what went on for millions of dead and survivors. This is disgustingly disrespecting to those that were there in any camp.
During my time visiting Auschwitz I saw the chambers and the rooms full of hair, full of suite cases etc. But the part that has stuck with me the most was the Death Wall
I mean, i wouldn't do it, but who cares hahah bet this shit happens all the time, who cares if people are ruining their own potentially cool photos by being in them
