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IrishBubbaLiberal

(1,093 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:01 PM Jan 25

Elon Musk is telling Germany not to regret the murder of 6M+ Jews., "sins of their great grandparents'

https://bsky.app/profile/mjfree.bsky.social/post/3lglyqpt72s2b

Elon Musk is telling Germany not to regret the murder of 6M+ Jews.

Holy f*ck! Just days after his Nazi salute seen around the world, Elon Musk is speaking at an AfD rally about “German pride”, warning against “multicultural delusion”, and telling them not to feel guilty about the “sins of their great grandparents”.

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https://bsky.app/profile/mjfree.bsky.social/post/3lgikiwdysc2y
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jls4561

(2,121 posts)
3. From the crowd that brought you "slaves benefitted from learning valuable skills like blacksmithing".
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:12 PM
Jan 25

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,671 posts)
5. Recognizing
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:23 PM
Jan 25

that what our ancestors did was awful and inhumane isn’t the same as feeling guilty about it.

I feel no guilt for what my ancestors did.

Disaffected

(5,457 posts)
8. I think it's the implication in Musk's statement
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jan 25

that is the problem, not that anyone should feel guilty about what their ancestors did (which I agree is true).

IMO Musk's implication is that they should not feel guilty because what their ancestors did is understandable and not really all that bad.

Prairie Gates

(4,536 posts)
7. The AfD doesn't think that their grandparents even sinned
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 07:30 PM
Jan 25

That's the issue. Just as increasingly on the American right, they are redefining the Holocaust and Hitler's aggressive war in general through a mix of denialism, revaluing of anticommunism, lies about antipartisan warfare, and claims of Allied and Soviet propaganda against the Germans.

Cha

(308,859 posts)
12. So how does Fucking
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:40 PM
Jan 25

Bibi like that?

And the Fucking Nazi Salute?

Yeah I know he tried to explain it away 😡

DavidDvorkin

(20,102 posts)
13. "Don't feel guilty for the sins of your ancestors" is not the same as "Don't feel regret that it happened"
Sun Jan 26, 2025, 12:13 AM
Jan 26

People are not responsible for the sins of their ancestors.

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