Wisconsin Museum Fires Employee Who Wore Hitler Halloween Costume
Madison Children’s Museum said the employee has cognitive disabilities……museum said the man believed he was making a mockery of the Nazi Party’s leader…..museum also said the man has cognitive disabilities due to a traumatic brain injury and that his work over the last decade has been supervised.
So the disability hire does something more than a bit stupid and instead of a gentle tug of the hand and a little correction of this error he gets fired?
Umm, what? Don’t these people make reasonable accommodations for the disabled or something?
He was fired Tuesday night, after his costume was condemned on social media and by some news outlets, including the Jerusalem Post.
Ffs, get over it. Hitler died 100 years ago in a faraway foreign country that no longer exists.
I had a child come to my door dressed as a mummy, but he probably wasn’t mocking alleged Jewish slavery at the hands of Ramses II.
Great job getting a retarded man sacked from the only job he’s ever likely to have though, idiots.
A slogan for the restatement campaign: “Cut the retard some slack, fuckwits, not loose.”
I had a child come to my door dressed as a mummy, but he probably wasn’t mocking alleged Jewish slavery at the hands of Ramses II.
There were a lot of children round this way dressed as vampires. Obviously channeling Dracula and therefore big fans of Vlad the Impaler from the 15th Century.
Who knew children would be such big fans of skewering people until they slowly and agonisingly died?
Well, I’d argue a bit less than eighty years ago Steve.
But I agree with your sentiments. There’ve been plenty worse than him. I’m thinking of dear old Genghis, but if I tried, I’m sure I’d dig up some others.
National Socialism and racial discrimination are now common and accepted philosophies. It’s only because Hitler was white that he’s criticised.
I’ve never understood this thing about not being allowed to dress up as Nazis. Who invented it and when? Who was consulted? What’s the rationale? Who else are we not allowed to dress up as because they were bad? Can I dress up as Mussolini, on the basis that he was bad but not as bad as Hitler? What about Stalin, was he better or worse than Hitler? Do all these questions have to be referred to the Jerusalem Post for an authoritative opinion? Or does the Armenian Telegraph get a say too, and the Native American Gazette, and the Eskimo Times & Argus?
– So the disability hire does something more than a bit stupid and instead of a gentle tug of the hand and a little correction of this error he gets fired?
Well, it’s not like he’s the President or something.
Can’t say Eskimo either I believe it’s Inuit is the correct term now.
The Inuits at one point migrated West to East due to climate change affecting animal ranges/habitats (I guess we can’t talk about that) and wiped out a lot of the local East coast people along the way (maybe something else not to talk about).
@chernyy Drakon
Considering Vlad’s killing of a few 10s of thousands of Ottomans, they should be reported for Islamaphobia
He could’ve claimed just to be dressing up as Prince Harry. On the other hand, perhaps it’s too bad the RF didn’t have this precedent available back in the day: sacking Harry then might’ve saved a boat-load of trouble down the road.
“I’ve never understood this thing about not being allowed to dress up as Nazis. Who invented it and when? ”
The irony is that further we have come away from that period in time, the more the prodnoses have stuck their oar in. It was entirely OK for Spike Milligan to dress up as Adolf Hitler on primetime TV in the 70s, and for Mel Brooks to make an entire Hollywood film using all the Nazi iconography around then too. The war had only ended 25-30 years previously, and not only the viewers but also Spike and Mel too had been fighting the Nazis themselves, and they thought it was OK to send up. Its only since the wartime generations have passed away that its suddenly become another N word that must not be mentioned.
To be honest I’m guessing its a Leftist culture war thing – the Left want to have sticks to beat the Right with, and Nazism is one of them. No-one bats an eyelid when the usual suspects parade around with hammer and sickle flags, and picture of Stalin on May Day ‘Workers’ parades. Funny that………
Jim,
“To be honest I’m guessing its a Leftist culture war thing – the Left want to have sticks to beat the Right with, and Nazism is one of them. No-one bats an eyelid when the usual suspects parade around with hammer and sickle flags, and picture of Stalin on May Day ‘Workers’ parades. Funny that………”
If you offered Nazism to lefties, they’d generally be OK with it: hitting the bankers, telling business owners what they had to do, lots of government borrowing, job creation schemes, youth schemes promoting more statism, autarky. They call them “far right” to create distance but they definitely were socialists.
Given the current death toll from COVID vaccines, Lockdowns and Net Zero is fast approaching the level of Hitler’s casualties. (And in the words of Bachman Turner Overdrive ‘You ain’t see nuthin’ yet’) then it seems our self appointed overloads should beware the perils of hubris…
Hashtag Boycott Wisconsin
Please make me feel virtuous.
Not that the general public is capable of thinking about these things logically, but:
Did the guy actually threaten anyone?
Is there any possibility that he could have been mistaken for the real Hitler?
Does the guy even subscribe to the Nazi ideology?
Why is it grounds for termination to dress like a historical figure who did bad things?
How is this as bad as TIME Magazine making Hitler Man of the Year?
How is this as bad as Madame Tussaud’s making a wax figure of Hitler?
How is this as bad as the New York Times praising the atmosphere of Germany in 1936?
If people just took a quick look at this guy, and then shrugged it off and went about their day, would the costume have had as much of an effect on anyone?
Woke leftists called Trump “literally Hitler” and yet many of them dressed as Trump for Halloween. Should they be fired too?
In many predominately liberal cities, the closest thing to Kristallnacht was BLM and AntiFa rioters bashing in storefront windows and hospitalizing bystanders. Should BLM and AntiFa imagery be banned from public view?
Would the same employee have been fired if he dressed up like Fidel Castro instead? Putin on a horse?
The left hate Hitler because he was a nationalist who defeated the communists for control of Germany. They’re not that bothered about what he did after ’33.
They don’t want people dressing up as Nazis or in any way glorifying them because it might lead to people thinking communists can be defeated.
They’re not that bothered about what he did after ’33.
Not until he invaded communist Russia in ’41; that’s when the international left really turned against da nazzziis.
Always nice to see Left confirming they’re the intolerant, uncaring bigots
@Chernyy Drakon
Who knew children would be such big fans of skewering people until they slowly and agonisingly died?
Err well, Dominic Sandbrook did
10 yo me: Friday Night on BBC: Hammer House of Horror
Monday at school: “Did you see…” Yes, yes, yes, no mummy…, yes…
Thanks Pcar, really enjoyed Sandbrook’s piece.
“To forestall any talk of the dreaded “sensitivity readers”, I made sure to recite some of these gorier bits to sample audiences and note the reactions. As I’d hoped, the children loved them, except for one little girl who frowned and shook her head. Afterwards she came up to me, still looking very serious. “Not enough beheading,” she said grimly. “More death, please.””
Dominic has the right test audience. 3:)
It seems that there are some people who simply must not be offended.
What, socialists – whether of the national or international variety?