On Spotify, hate streams unchecked as playlists praise Hitler, call to gas Jews

[Mosby]

Music-streaming giant Spotify is host to dozens of user-generated playlists with titles praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, mocking Holocaust victims, and featuring photos of swastikas and white nationalist hate symbols, The Times of Israel has found.

Among the anti-Semitic playlist titles are a variety of explicit calls to “gas” or kill Jews (“Gas the Jews music”; “Jews gas chamber”;”Straight gas BURN THE JEWS”; “Gas Jews”;”Kill the Jews”;”GasOnThemJ3ws”; “burn the Jews”), as well as Holocaust denial (“The Holocaust was an exaggerated game of hide and seek”; “The Holocaust was a joke”;”Rocking the soccks [sic] off holocaust victims”; “Just found out the Holocaust was fake”).

https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-spotify-hate-streams-unchecked-as-playlists-praise-hitler-call-to-gas-jews/

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended for visibility.

Trump encourages hatred.

[Journeyman]

2. Somehow, just can't picture tapping my toes to "GasOnThemJ3ws" . . .

Call me old fashioned, paint me a hopeless buddy-duddy, but nothing in these titles moves me to seek 'em out. Just like Hitler, this music ain't got no rhythm, ain't got no swing, and definitely lacks any humor.

[dewsgirl]

3. Just awful.😔

[appalachiablue]

4. We can't teach history in the US anymore yet atrocities and bigotry

are adopted by plenty of antisocial haters.

[marble falls]

5. Unbelievable. Totally unbelievable.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

When did the Nazis have America?

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

[JudyM]

7. Damn. It's everywhere. Sickening.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. I agree.

To me, what is more disgusting is the "soft" anti-Semitism I see all over the place. When a friend posted on Facebook the story about the stabbings in NY, the comments from his friends were disturbing, to say the least, including one that said, "Intolerance of Jews? What about Jewish intolerance of Palestinians?" We see it here, too. Just about any thread about anti-Semitism diverges into comments about Israel or blaming this Jew or that one for anti-Semitism. Or, the "comparisons" start about, "well, this group or that one has it worse." or "Well, I guess now that Jews are being affected, something will done." Of course, the endless gentilesplainin' that takes place is also nauseating.

[JudyM]

9. Right. ... and then no one besides one of us calls them out on it.

At least there doesn’t seem to be the usual pile-on agreement with those comments here these days, from what I’ve seen.

[grossproffit]

10. Social media has been complicit in allowing antisemitism to flourish.

[MosheFeingold]

11. I think it just made it apparent

We had this discussion as a family over the holidays.

I have very European-looking (blonde, blue-eyed, French-speaking) great-grandchildren who are Jewish but have a generic French surname and very Arabic-looking (and Hebrew and Arabic-speaking), with a prominent Arab last name (actually Samaritan, but who cares) via Judea who are also Jewish (and, in fact, sabra Israeli).

They are all Orthodox of various types, but can pass in their relative sub-groups as non-Jewish.

They say the antisemitism is neither more, nor less, just easier to spot as it is out in the open in social media.

++++

Not really sure why I am remembering this now, but I want to pass it on before it was lost. My captain in the MP was a great wall of a man. Big, brown-haired, blue-eyed guy. From Oklahoma. He would call be "Jew boy" and make fun of all things Jewish, in what I thought was a pretty mean manner. "Hide your pay boys, the Jew is here" was a common greeting.

He was also physically brave, giving, and the first one through a door during the de-Nazification process of Germany. Very protective of his men. (We had to go house-to-house looking for wanted men -- this was technically after hostilities ended, but lots of soldiers were lost in this process. It was like having a police raid every day.)

When we encountered former SS troops (again, we were MPs and generally dealt with POWs) hiding in their mama's house, he fucking lost it. He hated them. He hated their racism. He may or may not have killed a few that needed killing; I'm not sure and don't want to know.

One specific incident that I recall was a soon-to-be POW said something about me being "Juden". The Captain heard him, picked him up, and literally beat him until he could not stand -- in a room where we were outnumbered by Germans 10:1.

I finally figured out my Captain had nothing against Jewish people -- or me. He was horrified by actual racism. He loved me, in fact. He was just "that way". Rough talk and teasing was just how he showed affection.

We kept in touch long after the war. I gave him and his family a tour of Capital Hill, and he got to meet Bobby Kennedy.

He died in the 1980s sometime.

[Mosby]

12. Thanks for sharing that. Nt