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University newspaper runs article about the good things that Hitler did under Jewish student's name
Daily Mail ^ | 4-8-12

Posted on 04/08/2012 8:36:35 AM PDT by SJackson

Rutgers University are investigating an article called ‘What About the Good Things that Hitler Did?’ that was published in the school’s satirical newspaper and falsely attributed to a Jewish student.

The piece, which included lines such as ‘give Hitler a little thanks’ , was written under Aaron Marcus’s name and his photograph appears beside the article.

Marcus, who lost family in the Holocaust, only found out about the piece when a friend at the New Jersey university called to ask him if he had actually written it.

'To say anything praiseworthy of someone like Hitler, and to have people actually believe it was coming from me even in a satirical manner is just really painful for me and my family,' Marcus told MyFoxNY.

The article, which was run in the April 4th edition of the student-funded Daily Medium newspaper, suggested that the Nazi dictator deserved credit for accomplishments such as the creation of the Volkswagen, arguing, 'History is subjective, people.' It placed the word ‘atrocities’ in quotation marks and said that the Holocaust had motivated Jews to establish Israel, 'an event which . . . would not have happened without the help of ol’ Adolf.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: hitler; journalism; newspapers; satire
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To: NorthernCrunchyCon

Likewise I’m sure, the Austrian guy also had ideological supporters.

I really don’t see a lot of differences between “liberals” and Nazis.

I really don’t. They’re far more similar than different.


61 posted on 04/08/2012 11:35:47 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Draft Palin VP!)
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To: Condor51

Getting rid of Hitler by going through the WW-II was a really expensive way to do it. A benefit of getting rid of Hitler is that a rational person (if one was to be found in Nazi Germany) would have looked for a way out. Doenitz would have been such a person and Hitler named him as his successor in his political will. It seemed an odd choice, because Doenitz was the least Nazified of the German leaders. Of course, by the time Hitler finally killed himself, no one on the Allied side cared what the Nazi leadership did.

I do not look forward to America’s “Poland Moment”. And American institutions are still healthy enough to resist a real Hitler. It is unbecoming to compare Obama to Hitler, I suppose. Obama is clearly (and sadly) the worst president in American history, but still a far sight better than Hitler.


62 posted on 04/08/2012 11:36:03 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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To: B.Lyle

Ingeresting response. Other than writing for the “rival” paper, I wonder if Marcus did or wrote anything to trigger satirization as a supporter of Hitler. In the absence of that, the satire is as relevant as public characterization of Professor Miskoff as a satan worshipper. Which I presume he isn’t, else I’d have used a different characterization.


63 posted on 04/08/2012 11:53:49 AM PDT by SJackson (As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
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To: SJackson

Even published under a Jewish-sounding pseudonym this would be a bit beyond the pale. Falsely attributing it to an actual Jewish student seems to be a sort of libel even in the context an April Fools Day satire, and I hope a libel case is successfully brought.

That said, I think it is actually a contribution to the cause of preventing another Holocaust to point out from time to time the things the Nazis “did right”. Of course, this needs, both for reasons of honesty and to not cause offense, to be done in the context of discussing the parasitic nature of evil. The notion of “pure evil” is absurd. Evil, the privation of good, is only effective as a parasite on the good. Things like the “orderly employment policy” the Nazis instituted (observation of which got an Austrian politician in trouble a while back), were in and of themselves good, and it is only in the context of the twisting of virtues for evil ends that Naziism was a effectively evil as it was.


64 posted on 04/08/2012 1:03:02 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Texas Fossil
It is. Under archives you'll see links, and click to most recent one. You may indeed need flash etc. Screenshot done just now


65 posted on 04/08/2012 3:08:41 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

thanks


66 posted on 04/08/2012 5:36:52 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Reeses
To the Brits, every identifiable body of people, such as a company or university, are described by the plural.

See, I just did it! ≤}B^)

I use the plural occasionally like this, just to get a rise out of American folks, and to make some of them think I must be British.

67 posted on 04/08/2012 6:24:37 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: The_Reader_David
In Lynne Truss' book Eats, Shoots and Leaves she recounts an anecote of a retiring editor whose old files are being cleaned out.

Several apparently unpublished cartoons are unearthed. Among them is one which depicts a machine with a large input hopper and an output spigot. People are seen feeding the input, operating the machine, and collecting the output.

The hopper is labelled "Raw Evil" and the spigot, "Pure Evil."

68 posted on 04/08/2012 6:32:11 PM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: Nifster
"And you probably think Guernica was caused by the rightists,"

Why would I probably think that?

69 posted on 04/09/2012 6:50:52 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

AndI knew you and I agreed. Hitler and his crew were the evil that was...I know what the current evil is.


70 posted on 04/09/2012 4:55:28 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I know. Who would have thought in so short a time that we could so easily forget the horror that was Hitler’s Germany???


71 posted on 04/09/2012 4:56:41 PM PDT by Nifster
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