This new creation, VOTE_BOT, has so far been only mildly annoying, and I understand the desire to remind AbWriters to vote in the AI contest. However, the graphic that is currently attached to it is inexcusable.
Normally I am the very last on a board to bestir myself in the interest of the "politically incorrect" whether it be offensive to left, right, up or down.
But still.
We have just passed the 60th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe, an accomplishment of which millions of living men and women can justly be enormously proud. In the shadow of that, to compare, even lightly, the nonparticipation of board denizens to book burning by National Socialists in Germany seven decades ago is simply inexcusable.
The apathy and anti-intellectual and anti-scientific thought control of that regime led to the mass slaughter of some twenty million humans. Six million Jews. One million Rom. Slavs, political dissidents, communists, homosexuals. People whose only crime was to be born to certain ethnic groups, or to have political views or lifestyles deemed undesirable by The State and its Leader.
Really. Use of this image to promote an internet contest is seriously inappropriate. Please pull it, and when you do, you may yank this thread as well.
Normally I am the very last on a board to bestir myself in the interest of the "politically incorrect" whether it be offensive to left, right, up or down.
But still.
We have just passed the 60th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in Europe, an accomplishment of which millions of living men and women can justly be enormously proud. In the shadow of that, to compare, even lightly, the nonparticipation of board denizens to book burning by National Socialists in Germany seven decades ago is simply inexcusable.
The apathy and anti-intellectual and anti-scientific thought control of that regime led to the mass slaughter of some twenty million humans. Six million Jews. One million Rom. Slavs, political dissidents, communists, homosexuals. People whose only crime was to be born to certain ethnic groups, or to have political views or lifestyles deemed undesirable by The State and its Leader.
Really. Use of this image to promote an internet contest is seriously inappropriate. Please pull it, and when you do, you may yank this thread as well.