I hate people sometimes.

[acari]

via chopchica:

On InsaneJournal there exists a Harry Potter RPG called Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, you say? Do they know what that word means? Yes, they do. From their FAQ:

This name sounds familiar. What does Kristallnacht mean

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[minavox]

Here via thelana.
Thanks for pointing this shit out, sometimes it's good to know what fandom is able to do, quite innocently of course.

I'm German, too, and even if I don't know what exactly my family did, it surely wasn't anything positive for the victims. But that isn't my main point.

Mainly I'm appalled how stupidly people recreate Nazi ideology for fun just by using the language and the special phrases coined for transporting the ideology. As is Reichskristallnacht (even if it was, if I remember correctly, first used by a cabaret artist in an ironic spirit. Shows how successfull he was). It's the wischiwaschi spirit of saying the pogrom was a horrific event in World War II, as you quote their FAQs. No, it wasn't. It was nearly a year before WW2 started, and it corrupted minds and destroyed lifes long before. And it surely is nothing one should or could be nonchalant about.

[thelana]

I still remember how I traumatized my history teacher when I raised my hand during class and asked what his parents had done during WW2. And he went all pale and stuttery about how they were probably too young (got the impression early 20 or so based on his age) at that point to have done something really bad.

And those were the people supposed to be teaching us how badbadbad WW2 was and they get all flustered over a question like this?

[acari]

Or you know you could watch a movie about the Holocaust, that will teach you all you need to know.

Wow am I over being upset.

[acari]

And they say they thought long and hard about it. I just don't understand this.

[frogspace]

I can only explain it in terms of being so very far removed from it through space (not German, not living in central Europe), time (too young and not enough life experience) and relation (it doesn't concern them and it didn't concern any of their relatives), that they have no idea what they are playing with. To them it's just like the Crusades. That happened a long time ago in a place far away too and Hollywood makes cool movies about it. (And yet, the consequences still influence the politics even today.)

[acari]

I'd really like to hear the mod or players speak and hear their reasoning, because that self-proclaimed spokeperson over on IJ makes me want to "do bad things" to her.