Do we need a corollary to Godwin's Law? "The longer an app is available in the App Store, the probability that its icon will eventually resemble Hitler's mustache approaches 1."
Post-millennial Nazi paranoia is truly emblematic of our need to cling to a (righteous) hatred. I mean, who can defend Hitler? No one! So we're all free to feverishly, obsessively rail against the evils of Nazism! But really we just want to guarantee our negative outbursts won't be reality-checked.
Americans liberals have reduced Nazism to the status of comic-book villain. Why is it American liberals are more obsessed with Nazis than Americans were in 1946?
Make your icon a random blot and some people will imagine Hitler in that too. It's a packing box with tape on the top, something Amazon is widely known for.
But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it.
There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.
It really isn't. No-one was calling for Amazon to be banned, no-one was even outraged about it. A couple of people made some jokes on Twitter. That's all.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
I think it's silly that Hitler had a particular moustache 80 years ago therefore that moustache style is permanently verboten. I rock a moustache very similar to Stalin's, thankfully that one is allowed.
I also wonder if it was a popular moustache style in the 1930s or if it already made him look different at the time.
I know Michael Jordan sported the style a few years ago and that also didn’t go well.
Infamy really sticks around. Adolf is still pretty much dead as a name and nearly everyone with a last name of Hitler had their last name changed (in the US at least). People still don't name their kid Judas.
It was a perfectly practical Great War mustache style for gas masks when facial hair was more in vogue but it is still emotionally poisoned.
Agreed, this attitude has to end. People are forcing themselves to imagine Nazism in symbols, meanwhile there's actual racism on plain view that many pretend not to see.
To be fair, the tape reminds me more of the orange hair patch of a Mr. Meeseeks than Hitler's mustache, mostly because of the smile. The only way I can see a blue Hitler mustache is imagining a closeup cropped from below the nose, and a really tiny mouth.
I guess it costs them less to change the icon and letting the self-offenders pick someone else.
Some people are trolling Amazon, others not so much. The fact that a silent icon change was mentioned in many news sources is a sign of the audience those initial trolls had.
That said, I thought the rule was that you never went full Hitler and I would have said this tiny soupçon of Hitler was just the right amount to add a bit of darkness to the overall flavor.
which took an idea that could have been trite and boring but made it really creepy. I think because it had that whole boiling the frog thing down - it paced the move from absurd to horrible just right.
Important to remember that Amazon’s strategy for everything is to scale to infinity. Even if something offends .01% of people, those are people amazon wants as a customer and a slight app icon change to accommodate them is well worth the money.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 48.3 ms ] threadAmericans liberals have reduced Nazism to the status of comic-book villain. Why is it American liberals are more obsessed with Nazis than Americans were in 1946?
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familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
You know who else had a similar mustache? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellB...
But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it.
There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
Also, the Hitler-esque tape at least looked like tape. Now the blue part uses the symbol that's usually used for a post-it note.
It was a perfectly practical Great War mustache style for gas masks when facial hair was more in vogue but it is still emotionally poisoned.
What has a blue sticker got to do with hitler?
A hitler 'tash is ultra short and square, not a long curve.
I guess it costs them less to change the icon and letting the self-offenders pick someone else.
Anne to be frank, my first thought was I don't like either variant. The Hitlerishness of it was a second thought.
That said, I thought the rule was that you never went full Hitler and I would have said this tiny soupçon of Hitler was just the right amount to add a bit of darkness to the overall flavor.
Clearly I'm out of step with the times.
which took an idea that could have been trite and boring but made it really creepy. I think because it had that whole boiling the frog thing down - it paced the move from absurd to horrible just right.