‘Regrettable’ oversight leads to Hitler quote in Bangor High yearbook

[jpak]

Source: Bangor Daily News

BANGOR, Maine — A “regrettable” oversight led to the publication of a quote attributed to Adolf Hitler in this year’s Bangor High School yearbook, the school’s principal said this week.

The quote: “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and the fields blue ought to be sterilized,” appears under a photograph of a senior student, and was attributed to the Nazi leader who was responsible for the deaths of millions — and forced the sterilization of hundreds of thousands.

Bangor High School Principal Paul Butler said he learned of the quote in the yearbook on May 26, after the school started distributing the publication to students. He said he immediately investigated to find out how and why the quote appeared.

“I have determined that flaws in the submission and review timeline and process, not flaws in judgment regarding the appropriateness of including such a quote, are the cause of its regrettable appearance in the book,” he said in an email sent Tuesday night.

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Where do these kids learn this stuff?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "Regrettable"? I'd say so...

[EL34x4]

2. Where do these kids learn this stuff? Taylor Swift.

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All part of the growing "Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi" meme.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/cant-shake-it-off-how-taylor-swift-became-a-nazi-idol

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/real-taylor-swift-pinterest-quotes-hitler/

I'm sure he thought it was funny.

[jpak]

3. When I thought I've seen it all....

[christx30]

11. One meme I've seen is to

purposely misattribute quotes to make them horrifying/funny.
The only one I remember is taking Wayne Gretzky's "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" and attribute it to Lee Harvey Oswald.

[James48]

4. EXamples of banned art

Hitler's quote was during his period banning certain artworks

"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and the fields blue ought to be sterilized" was from the period
of Nazi Censorship of the Arts

In 1937 The National Socialist Society for German Culture held an art exhibition in Munich. The Nazis called the exhibit Entartete Kunst, or Degenerate Art. During this time over 22 thousand art-works by more than 200 artists of that time were confiscated. The National Socialist Society for German Culture declared artists of the banned paintings, mostly Expressionists, Cubists, Dadaism, Surrealist, Fauvists, nineteenth-century Impressionist and Post-Impressionist to be insane and morally corrupt.
"Entartete Kunst" - Degenerate Art

See examples here of paintings banned under the Nazis:
http://www.historyofpainters.com/entartete.htm

[jpak]

6. One of Paul LePage's first official acts as governor of Maine was to remove a mural

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(that would be Paul LePage - Trump Toady)

A pro-union mural from the Dept. of Labor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/us/24lepage.html?_r=0



and so it begins....

[Igel]

8. It began a while back.

Various organizations have pushed to have murals covered or removed on grounds that they were biased, racist, or otherwise offensive. Signs or just saying, "It's old, standards were different" doesn't apparently cut it.

It's a question as to who gets to define "offensive" for the entire society.

LePage's offense was at a 3-year-old mural. A lot of others' offense is at murals 70 or 80 years old.

Once you get into defining what is appropriate speech and appropriate public culture you get into removing murals and imposing views.

In some ways LePage's acts were less bad: The mural was fairly recent, and he was top executive of the executive branch. Unlike many of the protests against other, older murals to get the owners to yield to their demands. "Less bad" not mean "I approve," by the way (standard caveat in the face of the usual ill will).

There was (is?) a doll museum in Rochester, NY that displays a huge collection of dolls. Some of them are offensive by contemporary standards; sometimes the caricatures of Af-Am people are no different in quality or quantity than for whites, but they're still more offensive. The museum feels it's necessary to have a panoply of signs pointing out that societal norms were different when these dolls were made, and they're historical artifacts. You display history or hide and forget history.

[jpak]

10. in LePutin's case, the Offended Party was in the form of an "anonymous" FAX

yup

[Tanuki]

14. Diego Rivera's mural, commissioned for the Rockefeller Center, was famously destroyed when he

refused to paint over the section that included a portrait of Lenin....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_at_the_Crossroads

[Odin2005]

5. They learn in it Neo-Nazi havens like 4chan and Reddit.

[brett_jv]

12. That's a pretty broad brush you seem to be painting with there mate ...

The reality is that 4chan and Reddit are havens for free expression of ALL VIEWS ... unfortunately, that makes them refuges for SOME views that 'we' may not particularly like.

"Free Speech" is tricky like that ... but I'm pretty sure we both 'support it', right?

[Odin2005]

13. Private websites can restrict any speech they want.

And in any case the Neo-Nazis don't stay in their own place, they are infamous for shitting up the whole site.

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. Hitler advocated sterilization of the unfit.

In this, he was imitating the US eugenics movement, which he greatly admired.

[Redness]

9. Sterilizing Speech

Where these kids learn this stuff, because it is taboo, is uncritical sources. Nazism, fungus-like, thrives in the dark. Me, if there's a Nazi in the room, I want to know about it. I don't want his speech changed to "have a nice summer" so that I might mistake him for someone who wishes me a nice summer.

[malthaussen]

15. Regardless of provenance...

... that is a "regrettable" sentiment. One might even call it "appalling."

-- Mal

[dembotoz]

16. lots of yearbooks are the home of inside snarky asshole jokes

high school students can be vile little creeps

perhaps that is why i do not attend reunions