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Posted on 09/21/2019 3:58:50 PM PDT by dead
A call for help may become a punch in the gut.
A Federal Communications Commission proposal to replace its 10-digit national suicide prevention hotline number with the three-digit 988 hits too close to home for a Staten Island activist, who noted the numbers 88 are significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movements.
The letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to neo-Nazis, the numbers 88 together stand for “Heil Hitler.”
“It’s not just a number,” said Charles Greinsky, a 68-year-old Jewish war veteran, who recalls when hatemongers spray painted the digits on his temple in 2008.
Greinsky is lobbying Rep. Max Rose and Sen. Charles Schumer to come up with a different three-digit combo.
Greinsky “gets” that there’s a 9 preceding the hate code, but he fears white supremacists would latch onto the number and overload the hotline in a twisted tribute to Hitler. “I get the idea of making it a simple number. Just make it something that doesn’t conjure up hate,” he said.
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No Feng Shui?
It says Nein Herr Hitler!
He is calling the wrong hot line, he needed the mental health hotline.
The very fact that the letter “H” still exists is a Nazi conspiracy.
HEY BOZO,
IT’S JUST A NUMBER !!!
Kooks like that should properly be disregarded.
Stupid.
Just trying to find an easy-to-remember and easy-to dial number.
Maybe someone will find fault with the emergency 911 number too.
There are just too many idiots out there.
Greinsky overthunk it and got brain freeze.
It IS just a number. The number 8 shows up billions of times in various places. Many times, it is even paired with another 8. It is still just a number.
We already have more than enough PC crapola floating around.
666 would work for him though.
Oh that Babylon Bee comes up with the BEST satire!
Can you imagine someone REALLY thinking 988 would be an obvious connection to Hitler!
Keep them coming, Bee! I need some more good laughs!!
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Why do the schizophrenic fantasies of some guy count as news?
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Ok, ok. Let’s accept the crazy code. 8 is H. So therefore 9 is I.
Therefore 988 = IHH = I hate Hitler.
Crazy guy’s problem solved.
Toll free number 1 888-
Man, people are just plain running out of things to be offended by.
The telephone number of the New York office of the ADL begins with the numbers ‘88’. Are they a nest of Nazis?
Come on folks...LIGHTEN UP!
To much mental illness and time on his watch
“One of the most common white supremacist symbols, 88, is used throughout the entire white supremacist movement, not just neo-Nazis,” the Anti-Defamation League website reads.
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Go to the ADL’s website, go to the bottom of the first webpage and there note the ‘88’ in their telephone number. Vile Nazis!! /sarc
They are real nutbars. 20+ years ago I had a lefty loon grill me a little bit in passing about a computer assigned e-mail address. Had no idea what he was on about. No 88 in it. So this has been a “thing” for a while, apparently. LOL
however, 88 is considered very fortunate, Double Happiness in China
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