Let's boot up Taboo for the articles I've saved for today.
WOMEN ARRESTED FOR TIGHT TROUSERS
JUBA, Khartoum (Reuters) - More than 35 young women wearing tight trousers have been arrested for "disturbing the peace" in south Sudan, police said on Tuesday.
Officers said the arrests in Juba, capital of the semi-autonomous region, were part of a crackdown on youth gangs that have sprung up recently and have a reputation for drinking, fighting and public nudity.
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"They were wearing trousers that were too tight, disturbing the peace," said Deputy Police Commissioner of Juba County Raiman Lege.
South Sudan is generally seen as much more liberal than the largely Muslim north, with which it fought a two-decade war that was ended by a 2005 peace deal.
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"We saw about 30 girls in two trucks piled up like animals. One girl was just picked up and thrown into the truck," civil servant Nok Duany told Reuters.
there was a followup to this whereupon the offending officer was stripped of duty or something
GERMANY DISCUSSES RETURN OF IRON CROSS
(read the comments, they're awesome)
and its followup...
...'Germany scraps new Iron Cross'.
for fuck's sake
The German government was yesterday forced to scrap plans to re-introduce the Iron Cross, after opponents said the military medal still carried the "burden" of association with Nazi atrocities.
Maybe that's because you CENSORED ALL THE SWASTIKAS
making us have to use them in replacement, Dummkopfs.
Isn't everything tarnished by the Nazis? :/The medal, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross in Britain, was established during the Napoleonic Wars to reward bravery and valour of officers and enlisted men alike.
But its reputation was tarnished by the Nazis, who added a swastika to the design, linking it to atrocities in the Second World War. It was abolished in post-Nazi Germany.
Here's another post from nazifetisch!
BEWARE OF NAZI WORDS
ohhhhhhh, shit.
Dozens of German words have for decades been taboo for native speakers because of the way those words were used by the Nazis.
Now, an 800-page dictionary has been published to serve as a guide to avoiding linguistic traps into which Germans can easily fall.
Terms such as "endloesung" (final solution) or "selektion" (selection) can quickly get the user into trouble, because the words acquired specific meanings and associations during the Third Reich.
"Endloesung" was the word used by the Nazi regime for its plan to exterminate the Jewish race, and it will forever be associated with Adolf Hitler's genocidal "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."
"Selektion" is a term to avoid because of its use by the Nazis to refer to the death camp practice of "selecting" those to be executed.
"Lager" (camp) refers to the concentration camps in which millions died and is especially hurtful to survivors of the Nazi past.
The "Woerterbuch der Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung" (Dictionary of Coming to Terms With the Past) examines around 1,000 words and phrases – everything from "Anschluss," used to refer to the "annexation" of Austria in 1938, to "Wehrmacht," the name of the Nazi-era armed forces. The guide aims to look at the meaning and usage of the terms as they have evolved from before World War II through the present.
...fuck. Deutsch has to make everything PC to hide that it's afraid of the past, oh weh.
Also, I love how they use all these German words and can't be arsed putting in the umlauts.
And yes, Vergangenheitsbewältigung is a word, and it's actually used a lot in this context.
"We don't mean to wipe out those words from the German language for good," explains Thorsten Eitz, a co-author of the dictionary, in an interview with ABCNews.com. "But we want to make people more sensitive to the power of those words and phrases and their associations to the Nazis."Which is really funny, because we say 'entartete Kunst' all the time on CF and nobody cares. :P
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The Cardinal of Cologne, Joachim Meisner, well-known for provoking controversy, caused a storm of criticism and faced resignation calls not too long ago for using the word "entartet" (degenerate) in a speech claiming modern art was at risk of "degenerating."
The word "entartet" has strong connotations with the persecution of artists accused by Nazis of producing "degenerated art," and the Cardinal's remarks caused a real uproar among Germans sensitive about the country's Nazi past.
His colleague, the late Archbishop Johannes Dyba of Fulda, coined the term "babycaust" during his anti-abortion campaign. The analogy to "Holocaust" stirred a heated debate across the country.
Similarly, the late head of the German Central Council of Jews, Paul Spiegel, came under fire in 2005 when he criticized the German policy by which Jews were allowed to move from the former Soviet Union, saying that Russian Jews were being "selected" to live in Germany. "The use of taboo words seems attractive to all kinds of groups," says Eitz. "To name but a few, even animal rights activists got front-page coverage recently with an anti-factory farming campaign titled 'Holocaust on Your Plate.' Now, that's a no-no and they have been sharply criticized for using the term Holocaust, a term which should be exclusively used to describe the Nazi regime's brutal murder of millions of people during the Third Reich."
...That last sentence makes me SICK. 'Holocaust' had a meaning BEFORE the war, and it still has that same meaning NOW. You're talking about trying to avoid words which were used by the NSDAP, and NOW you're saying 'holocaust' should ONLY be used in that context? That's hypocrisy, AND it's STUPID.
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Usage Note: Holocaust has a secure place in the language when it refers to the massive destruction of humans by other humans. Ninety-nine percent of the Usage Panel accepts the use of holocaust in the phrase nuclear holocaust. Sixty percent of the Panel accepts the sentence As many as two million people may have died in the holocaust that followed the Khmer Rouge takeover in Cambodia. But because of its associations with genocide, people may object to extended applications of holocaust. When the word is used to refer to death brought about by natural causes, the percentage of the Panel accepting drops sharply. Only 31 percent of the Panel approves the sentence In East Africa five years of drought have brought about a holocaust in which millions have died. In a 1987 survey, just 11 percent approved the use of holocaust to summarize the effects of the AIDS epidemic. This suggests that other figurative usages such as the huge losses in the Savings and Loan holocaust may be viewed as overblown or in poor taste.·When capitalized Holocaust refers specifically to the destruction of Jews and other Europeans by the Nazis and may also encompass the Nazi persecution of Jews that preceded the outbreak of the war.
*snort*
Word History: Totality of destruction has been central to the meaning of holocaust since it first appeared in Middle English in the 14th century, used in reference to the biblical sacrifice in which a male animal was wholly burnt on the altar in worship of God. Holocaust comes from Greek holokauston ("that which is completely burnt"), which was a translation of Hebrew 'That first meaning is really something. Ties back to that 'Holocaust on Your Plate' thing, which I believe was PETA.lâ (literally "that which goes up," that is, in smoke). In this sense of "burnt sacrifice," holocaust is still used in some versions of the Bible. In the 17th century the meaning of holocaust broadened to "something totally consumed by fire," and the word eventually was applied to fires of extreme destructiveness. In the 20th century holocaust has taken on a variety of figurative meanings, summarizing the effects of war, rioting, storms, epidemic diseases, and even economic failures.
I think we've established that mistake now.
Noun 1. holocaust - an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust" destruction, devastation - the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists
"Having said that," Eitz explains, "it was also written for the younger generation, people in their twenties, who have no idea of Third Reich connotations in the German language. Young people often don't know that certain terms were used by the Nazis and that therefore using those terms can be found upsetting."
Wolfram John, a retired cameraman, tells ABCNews.com that people should keep in mind that language is all about how words are used. "It is still far more important to teach the youth of Germany intensively about all the facts of the Third Reich. The 'Dictionary of Coming to Terms With the Past' might be helpful in this context. But there shouldn't be rigid rules: every train in Germany has an 'Anschluss' – a 'connection' to another train. As always in life, the tone (and the intention) makes the music."
Which is also funny, since youth in Germany don't care about this shit. It's been ground into them since birth that they were the bad guys, they have to suffer for what their grandparents were forced to do. They want nothing to do with this. They don't want to keep being told about all the terrible things their family did. On a visit to Auschwitz, a tour group was more interested in what sort of mechanism was used for the ovens than the history behind it. And teachers were concerned. Wouldn't you do the same thing in the circumstances? It must be terrible having to live with that guilt all the time. We feel bad going to Holocaust museums. Imagine how they feel, dammit. It's non-stop. Always being told about what happened in the war, that everything was bad. Fucking hell. I would not want to live with that.
Also, Hitler is Big Brother.
More stuff about censorship in Germany. (FYI: 'verboten' = forbidden)
It's because the StGB § 86a (German law) forbids glorification of violence. For. Fuck's. Sake.
I don't see why the US is so afraid of nudity, either. Europe has been living with it for ages. What's the big deal?
If I haven't posted this yet, let it be done.
And now, onto Google's being over-PC again.
YOUTUBE BANS VIDEOS OF WEAPONS
FFFFFFF-Video-sharing site YouTube has changed its UK policy to exclude videos which show weapons being used to intimidate people.
The move, which does not affect the rest of the world, comes amid growing concern about knife and gun crime in the UK.
This one affects everyone.
Google has been ordered to hand over details of the viewing habits of YouTube users by a US judge.
Oh, fuck no.
A federal judge has now ordered Google to divulge details of every video clip uploaded to the site, along with viewers' YouTube usernames and IP addresses.
[...]YouTube usernames may identify individuals if people have signed up using their own names.
Google must now turn over all its data about YouTube visitors as well as copies of all clips it has ever taken down.
It's funny that they're worrying about copyrighted content when there are fucking neo-Nazis on YouTube.
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