Comments on: What other cultures can we suppress? http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/ staying up late, playing games Tue, 29 May 2012 05:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: matt http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/comment-page-1/#comment-1845 matt Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:49:29 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/#comment-1845 What's more surprising is that it was the BBC correspondent making news out of this: <blockquote>The BBC's Marianne Landzettel says this was no off-the-cuff remark by the cardinal, delivered in a sermon in Cologne Cathedral, but was precisely scripted.</blockquote> "degenerate art" Trademarked by the Nazi Party in 1937? I'm sure, at some point, Hitler used the words "Guten Tag!" Anyone saying those words is therefore making a tribute! Why can't we remember these twunts for the horrific things they did and not this tripe. Or is this an attempt to get some obscure art gallery onto the headlines on the BBC? What’s more surprising is that it was the BBC correspondent making news out of this:

The BBC’s Marianne Landzettel says this was no off-the-cuff remark by the cardinal, delivered in a sermon in Cologne Cathedral, but was precisely scripted.

“degenerate art” Trademarked by the Nazi Party in 1937?

I’m sure, at some point, Hitler used the words “Guten Tag!” Anyone saying those words is therefore making a tribute! Why can’t we remember these twunts for the horrific things they did and not this tripe. Or is this an attempt to get some obscure art gallery onto the headlines on the BBC?

]]> By: Mark http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/comment-page-1/#comment-1844 Mark Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:36:41 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/#comment-1844 Apparently a german cardinal calling an art show "degenerate" makes him a "Nazi sympathiser" because the Nazi's used the word "degenerate" in their propaganda. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6996251.stm" rel="nofollow">link</a> Apparently a german cardinal calling an art show “degenerate” makes him a “Nazi sympathiser” because the Nazi’s used the word “degenerate” in their propaganda. link

]]> By: matt http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 matt Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:42:50 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/#comment-1841 Yes, another stupidity. Because if we hide it away, we're sure to remember it. Yes, another stupidity.

Because if we hide it away, we’re sure to remember it.

]]> By: Mark http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 Mark Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:32:26 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2007/09/20/what-other-cultures-can-we-suppress/#comment-1840 Isn't the use of the swastika symbol actually illegal, at least in Germany? Isn’t the use of the swastika symbol actually illegal, at least in Germany?

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