• @infinitepcg@lemmy.world
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    949 months ago

    I don’t understand what is supposed to be the offense here. It was a trivia question about world history. In the context it was clearly not an endorsement.

    • @SkyeStarfall
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      329 months ago

      I don’t know, considering Nazis are becoming a problem again, it’s a bad look.

    • @Catoblepas
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      109 months ago

      Maybe there are people in the audience who would rather not be reminded of the person who murdered their family members when they’re just trying to go to a game. Treating Hitler like a distant history factoid that couldn’t have impacted anyone alive is at minimum ignorant.

      • xigoi
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        179 months ago

        By this logic, would a question about the Soviet Union also be bad?

        • @Catoblepas
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          49 months ago

          Do you think it would be normal for a question about the Holodomor to appear?

          • xigoi
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            9 months ago

            No, but the analogous question would be something like “where was Stalin born”.

            • @Catoblepas
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              49 months ago

              It’s not possible to mention or show Hitler without invoking the Holocaust, they’re inseparable in the public consciousness. It would be like asking trivia about another genocide.

  • SLaSZT
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    759 months ago

    Why was Hitler’s birthplace considered a fun trivia question suitable for a large event? That’s the real question I have here.

    • snooggums
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      239 months ago

      Most likely scenario is they were just broadcasting some generic trivia that had no forethought about the context of current events or being broadcast in a stadium. I could easily see it as a question for weekly trivia night.

      Basically, the outcome of being lazy about content for a mass gathering.

  • @lntl@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    lol, it’s kind of fun to think of ‘offensive’ trivia

    In what year did the Confederate States of America secede from the USA?

    The the Soviet Union was the union of how many socialist republics?

    Which two African nations remained de jure independent during “the scramble for Africa?”

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    279 months ago

    The fact that the sign right under reads “We never drop the ball” and this is coming form the game against Michigan where they lost 49-0 really brings it all together lol