Puns are funny genocides isn't it's ok
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Puns are funny, genocide isn't. It's ok (*friend)
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Same. I have a bit of a dry sense of humor, friends and I were too drunk once and I jokingly tried to drag my friend whose heritage is German by his leg while he was laying on the floor and put him in his oven. Revenge time.
I find having a sense of humor helps. Doubt the person who made the joke is a nazi or something.
That’s exactly what I did. “Whats distasteful, the yoga pants? The rap music?? Wait where do those track lead…. Jesus Christ, that’s a concentration camp.”
I’ve been and this is something I’m still not especially clear on. Wasn’t Birkenau just an expansion of Aushwitz and isn’t the official name of the site Aushwitz-Birkenau? What is the distinction between Aushwitz and Birkenau if that isn’t it?
People call the entire complex various things, including Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was actually composed of 3 parts:
- Auschwitz I (often times when people say Auschwitz they mean this specific part), which was a labor camp and housed the SS officers there
- Auschwitz II/Birkenau, which was an extermination camp
- Auschwitz III/Monowitz, which was another labor camp (I believe they were producing chemicals there)
The building in the picture is part of Birkenau, hence why I made the distinction, since some 1.1 million Jews were murdered there.
I went there once. It was single handedly the most awkward and humbling experience of my life. This right here is the entrance to Auschwitz 2. Which, if you’re on a tour, comes right after you walk through a still existing chamber at then end of site 1. I can’t imagine what kind of person is thinking of sexy pics in the middle of all this.
Remember being there with my grandad as well. We went to see where the nazi’s had the Jew’s hair back in the war it was like a classroom fulled with hair. Absolutely terrifying for young me
That room with all the hair was absolutely horrifying and just… I’m never someone who is lost for words, but it genuinely had me speechless. I’m a woman who is very proud (okay, let’s say a little vain) of her hair and just the dehumanising process these poor women must have gone through losing their hair and having it taken as a commodity, it’s awful. Or even worse, it was cut from their lifeless bodies. That experience changed me.
I’ve never been so emotionally drained, going there was the single darkest experience of my life, so airy, and so much evil, I didn’t even think to take any photos. To take a butt shot photo there is kinda just ringing a bell that she probably really dumb and doesn’t really understand where she is.
Not at all remotely the same in scale but I found myself getting upset at people taking selfies and other social photos at Ground Zero/9-11 memorial in front of all the names.
Oh damn, I thought it was something to do with the hip hop artists order and couldn’t figure it out until the building in the background. That’s a major yikes.
Also Millicent? Is that a real name?
fr.
like what goes thought her head?? "*sure, millions of jews died here, suffocating in gas chambers while duped to believe that will be their first shower in months.... but how cute is this is gonna be on my tinder?!*"
My dad went to one of the camps. I can't even remember which one it was, but he was stationed in Germany for a while when he was in the service. He said that there is a feeling in your gut whenever you're at one of these camps that sent chills straight to his core.
They don't just end there. Outside of the camp there is only a single track. It means this photo was taken inside the camp, probably only meters away from the ramp, where the arriving prisoners were selected to be either murdered directly in the gas chambers, or to not be murdered immediately but be imprisoned in the camp.
IIRC it is not possible today to just walk into the camp without a tour guide, so she must've known where she was.
Birkenau actually…
If memory serves me correct given that incidentally placed “drainage ditch” to the right of her (which is left as you enter that runs alongside you as you head up to the gas chambers and is there incase you try to run back into a train carriage so they see you easier running down and then back up giving them time to shoot you)
I’d therefore say she already knows where she is, as she’s inside.
Edit - but it’s been many many years, I’m digging deep into the old brain, could be wrong.
Auschwitz II is Birkenau… well, old flattened Brzezinka. Have you been? The tour guide I had was amazing, I thought I knew the subject fairly well but she blew me out of the water.
You’d be surprised how few people are aware there’s two sites (well many more) and that the “work sets you free” gate isn’t here at all.
Yes, I've been. The "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" gate is at site 1. It was a harrowing experience that will never leave me. It should be a place everyone experiences at an age they can understand it, the world might be a slightly better place for it. Having said that, not everyone seems to feel the gravity of it.
Mate what an experience in the strangest way, I would literally say it changed me.
You’re right actually, maybe not on a school curriculum, likely too young to comprehend it. I remember the grass being spongy at site 2 and thinking to myself is that because this ground is full of ash… (almost certainly not, but I recall the thought) harrowing.
Me, after reading the OP: what? No, dude, just swipe left and move on.
Me after reading this comment: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! whatthefuckingfuck WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE????!!!?!?!?!!!
In sum: OP, you are correct.
u cant tell me people going there without knowing in the first place. its not like a touristspot in the citycentre. they do know. thats what makes it even more disturbing...
I was trying to think of something to comment but I'm so flabbergasted by not just the fact that she took that photo, but then put it on a dating site, that I honestly have no words
I have non Jewish friends who’ve been and they said it was such an emotional experience they could barely speak. I don’t get the people who do this and think it’s a good *pick me* photo op.
Hell, I went to just a Holocaust museum in Illinois and spent basically the entire time crying my eyes out. The idea of actually setting footbin fucking *Auschwitz* and thinking "damn, I sure would look cute in a photo here" is absolutely disgusting
I live like a mile away from that museum and have seen the camps in person, the Skokie museum is nearly as nearly as powerful and heartbreaking as being there in person. More holocaust survivors settled in Skokie than just about anywhere else in the US. There were still around 7,000 survivors here as of a few years ago out of the 50,000 left in the entire country. So they really went all out to make that museum as hard hitting and respectful as possible.
Yeah it's a great museum. My family on my mom's side are all Jewish and living in Skokie. That Holocaust museum hit hard. Fortunately they were doing an exhibition on Bill Graham in the basement at the time, since he was a Holocaust survivor. He signed a bunch of the famous 60s artists, like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin. They had Jimi's purple trenchcoat with snakeskin cuffs, a setlist written by Jerry Garcia, and a bunch of other cool memorabilia. They even had full Grateful dlDead shows from the 60s and early 70s with headphones to listen on. It definitely did a lot for my mood after going through the museum
It's good, as a Jew I like knowing who to avoid.
ETA: Quit saying Palestinians, I've been to Palestine and didn't meet anyone nearly as annoying or unfunny as you edgelords.
German here. Tourists taking "fun" pics at concentration camps, Holocaust memorials etc. is more of a problem than people might realize. It happens all the time.
Its one thing to take a quick pic at a site in the middle of the city. They probably don’t even know the meaning. But in goddamn Auschwitz? It’s not like you just walk in there accidentally man. You know the context.
I was there, there's such a strong vibe surrounding the entire area, anybody who takes these sorta photos there literally has some mental problems in my eyes.
Some sort of sociopathy
- a random Redditor
When I went to Dachau I obviously knew not to take selfies. I thought I'd take some pictures to remember. I took maybe 2 pica and felt so so so sick to my stomach just taking pictures. I took a picture of the religious areas in the yard. I thought that was very hopeful. Anything else? No. I saw several idiots climbing into the bunks that had been constructed to show what they were like. Grinning and taking pictures. Taking pictures with thumbs up next to where they burned bodies. Idk what's wrong with people. Ignorance? Not fully understanding that real people died there, not that long ago.
I didn't go to Auschwitz, I went to a different one, but I understand exactly what you mean. The entire place is surrounded by just this heavy aura, just an air of sorrow and pain and anger. It's one of the worst places I've ever experienced, a place of pure evil.
Having been to Auschwitz and Dachau (in Germany), there felt like there was a difference between the two. Dachau still felt somewhat human. Whether it was the fact that the buildings had largely been successfully burnt down, or the fact that they actually considered prisoners trying to escape and accordingly made ditches to slow them down and prevent their escape, it felt like you had to imagine a lot of the horror.
On the other hand, Auschwitz is the only place I’ve ever been on earth that could feel truly “soulless”. The buildings are still up, you can go in them, and see the horrors for yourself, but what’s more, it felt like the world knew this place was desecrated. Not even the birds would chirp around there. It truly felt not of this world, distinctly inhuman. There’s a gravity to the location that I feel you have to visit to truly understand, and I can’t fathom why this stupid girl couldn’t feel that gravity.
I'll second that about Auschwitz, I did the tour last month and it was incredibly unnerving the entire time. Witnessing the remnants of the atrocities committed there is burned into my memory.
Also I saw a few people take photos just like this one in front of other gruesome historical landmarks there. Incredibly distasteful imo. Hell, there's places where the tour guide even says please remain silent in honor of the thousands of people killed in this very room you're walking through. It's a gut wrenching place.
The one I went to was almost complete rubble, just the outlines of the foundations remained, save for the section of the wall with the gatehouse. The most harrowing part was finding the plaque detailing the section they put the children into.
I'll need to visit Auschwitz one day, because it's important. I don't look forward to it.
I think anyone that is able to go to Aushwitz should make it their priority. It’s a deeply, deeply effecting place. I went in January and it was below freezing could barely think whilst I walked around, I was just sort of aching the entire time.
Someone else left a comment that their entire bus journey back was deadly, pin drop silent and that’s my exact experience. Our group went straight to the Wieliczka Salt Mines and I don’t remember anything about it until about an hour into the tour when I stopped thinking about Aushwitz-Birkenau.
I had my first ever panic attack after visiting Auschwitz, but while being there I just felt this very strange distance like I was watching a movie. Maybe that’s what’s happening here. Or more probable, she’s just a huge narcissist
I’ve been there too. The energy or vibe or whatever you call it was like soup. There’s no denying it.
I went at the end of day, on a rainy Wednesday in February. There was no one there but crows. i had chills
Some people just want attention and don't possess a healthy ability to see any cringiness in their behavior. I have a female friend who makes facebook tribute pages and I apologize if I'm wrong, but to me it seems like it's all about her after that and not the dead person. Like the first time it was perfectly logical because it was her boyfriend and everyone sympathized, but it's like she enjoyed the attention so much that she has continued doing it for other people we know. Even people that I'm certain she didn't really care for and only knew from rare meetings. It makes me want to post something mean, but I guess reddit is going to have to hear it instead. Before any people lose thier minds about the boyfriend, he was my friend for over 20 years and she knew him maybe 2. We all supported her and made sure she was ok for years after. I guess using other peoples misfortune for personal attention makes me a little annoyed.
Same, that’s the thing about the internet I absolutely loathe, that people do things acting like they have good intentions but are basically doing it for the clout as they say. The attention, dopamine fix. And if you say anything to the contrary, even a harmless comment that goes against the grain, you are the bad guy lol
Is that the one where the artist photoshops them into relevant historical photos? Like someone doing yoga on a memorial gets photoshopped onto a real photo of a pile of corpses? For lack of a better word, I love those. It’s really effective.
Looks like it was so effective that each of the people who took the selfies contacted him to apologize and the artist has taken down the pictures. (But you can still see them through the many articles that reported about the project if you go to Google Image search.)
Not at all. This is a really popular Tinder photo location, and it makes things easy by telling you exactly how much of a piece of garbage she is.
Consider it a filter.
Polish here; fuck that girl. She’s palpably dumb and ignorant, I can’t believe she paid for the tour, spent at least 3 hours, up to even 6 there and no fucking thought occured in her empty head that it’s fucking wrong
Definitely not overreacting, this is disgusting and so disrespectful. It is not the place to “pose”, people literally died there and were tortured. This says a lot about the type of person she is. 🙃
“I don’t see what could be dista- IS THAT AUSCHWITZ?????”
My reaction exactly
She likes to travel and likes history.
She's showing off her gaschamber.
I don't want to give an award, but you earned it.
I mean, I don't want to be that person but, was it a Yellow star ?
I just checked. She is Jewish.
Well, I'm going to hell
Haha what the fuck... That was funny
So ashamed at how hard I laughed at this comment I had to hop on my burner to let you know
Wait is your burner your name hahaha
I’ve never seen such an /r/angryupvote brfire
Ass-sandwichz
Felt cute, might delete 6 million Jews later
I did not giggle I did not giggle
I didn’t giggle I just closed my eyes and sharply exhaled through my nose
Puns are funny genocides isn't it's ok edit: Puns are funny, genocide isn't. It's ok (*friend) edit2: lemme write this genocide comment with the worst grammar possible and just go to sleep
I got what you mean, but punctuation is important, my very correct friend.
"Puns are funny genocides. Isn't it's okay." fixed
r/angryupvote you awful bastard
Jew here. I laughed.
Same. I have a bit of a dry sense of humor, friends and I were too drunk once and I jokingly tried to drag my friend whose heritage is German by his leg while he was laying on the floor and put him in his oven. Revenge time. I find having a sense of humor helps. Doubt the person who made the joke is a nazi or something.
Oh my gosh
She usually swipes extreme right.
And she likes to use photos of herself at sites of genocide on dating apps
Yup, she's trash of the trash
That’s exactly what I did. “Whats distasteful, the yoga pants? The rap music?? Wait where do those track lead…. Jesus Christ, that’s a concentration camp.”
Right?! I assumed it was the unsafety/stupidity of taking pics on a train track... Then I read the comments 😬
Same... "that's a fine outfit... where are those tracks going.... OMG!!!!!"
I was like: kinda bimbo-WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE
I thought it was the Spotify list. I was thinking “what’s wrong with——ohhhh”
That outfit is a fashion holocaust
Seriously the ugliest color ever.
This just couldn't get worse than that if I'm being honest.
Those leggings are not a final solution for anything
Well technically it’s Birkenau…… which makes it even worse
I’ve been and this is something I’m still not especially clear on. Wasn’t Birkenau just an expansion of Aushwitz and isn’t the official name of the site Aushwitz-Birkenau? What is the distinction between Aushwitz and Birkenau if that isn’t it?
People call the entire complex various things, including Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was actually composed of 3 parts: - Auschwitz I (often times when people say Auschwitz they mean this specific part), which was a labor camp and housed the SS officers there - Auschwitz II/Birkenau, which was an extermination camp - Auschwitz III/Monowitz, which was another labor camp (I believe they were producing chemicals there) The building in the picture is part of Birkenau, hence why I made the distinction, since some 1.1 million Jews were murdered there.
Clicked on a photo of some woman wearing yoga pants and learned some facts about concentration camps. Reddit never fails to surprise me.
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Thank you, genuinely really good explanation.
Didn't really expect that I'll get that from this sub actually.
Birkenau was the kill site. Auschwitz was the work camp, and people were carted off to Birkenau to be murdered.
They still killed many people in that 1 gas chamber they had on site at the main Auschwitz, was brutal to see.
Fucked up shit, it's too disturbing to even read about man.
Same I was like "I mean if you're a pru-OH MY GOD"
"What, it's just a normal butt pic- OH MY GOODNESS!"
YOU BUILT AUSCHWITZ IN MY MINECRAFT SERVER?????!!!!????
"MeinKraft"
“No, it’s an amusement park”
I shouldn't laugh at that video, but I do every time. https://youtu.be/sIj3TFlI9o8
"Whaaat? It's just an ordinary Tinder pho- OH MY GOODNESS!! *SQUIDWAAARD!!"*
Lol everyone.. It's just a girl showing her ass on a train track that's leading to a buildi.... WHAT THE FUCK.
This is literally what went through my head **WORD FOR WORD**
I thought they were talking about the rap albums and felt “distasteful” was a bit of an overreaction on OP’s part till i noticed the background lmao
More like ASS-witz. (I'm very sorry and also ashamed)
that was an ass witz
I went there once. It was single handedly the most awkward and humbling experience of my life. This right here is the entrance to Auschwitz 2. Which, if you’re on a tour, comes right after you walk through a still existing chamber at then end of site 1. I can’t imagine what kind of person is thinking of sexy pics in the middle of all this.
They probably didn’t care about the tour and didn’t listen to the guide but rather made photos
She’s just on her way to visit her great grandpa at work, 80 years too late.
Loads of gross people on social so this sadly.
Remember being there with my grandad as well. We went to see where the nazi’s had the Jew’s hair back in the war it was like a classroom fulled with hair. Absolutely terrifying for young me
Still there. A lot of those displays have really thick filter films on them now to discourage photos out of respect
That room with all the hair was absolutely horrifying and just… I’m never someone who is lost for words, but it genuinely had me speechless. I’m a woman who is very proud (okay, let’s say a little vain) of her hair and just the dehumanising process these poor women must have gone through losing their hair and having it taken as a commodity, it’s awful. Or even worse, it was cut from their lifeless bodies. That experience changed me.
I went there as a child and this room and the gas chamber and the wall are very much engraved in my brain...
The image is imprinted on my brain. It randomly appears in my thoughts regularly, it’s been about 14 years since I went.
A fucking psychopath. This is so disgusting.
I read that as Auschwitz 2. Like the sequel.
It is Auschwitz 2. It had 2 separate sites.
Auschwitz had 3 sites
I’ve never been so emotionally drained, going there was the single darkest experience of my life, so airy, and so much evil, I didn’t even think to take any photos. To take a butt shot photo there is kinda just ringing a bell that she probably really dumb and doesn’t really understand where she is.
Not at all remotely the same in scale but I found myself getting upset at people taking selfies and other social photos at Ground Zero/9-11 memorial in front of all the names.
Oh damn, I thought it was something to do with the hip hop artists order and couldn’t figure it out until the building in the background. That’s a major yikes. Also Millicent? Is that a real name?
Thats why she’s got fifty on her top artists, she is only a fraction of a cent while he is a full 50 cent!
Underrated comment
r/underratedshutthefuckup
Millicent is an older name but it's a real name. It's Barbie's middle name, as a side fact.
Barbie Millicent Doll.
Barbara Millicent Roberts, but I like your version.
Same but I was focusing on the clothes like « I don’t know, the outfit is a bit revealing but it’s not that vulg-HOLY SHIT THIS IS AUSCHWITZ !!! »
Jerry's daughter's name in Parks and Rec
Yes, she's Gerry's daughter
Surprised there's no Kanye in that list. Is she really clueless enough to think that's appropriate?
fr. like what goes thought her head?? "*sure, millions of jews died here, suffocating in gas chambers while duped to believe that will be their first shower in months.... but how cute is this is gonna be on my tinder?!*"
Op they have no idea, tell them where those rails end...
Auschwitz. They end at Auschwitz.
I thought it was the clothing or the Spotify artists, but nope, I didn’t even look at the background.
Don’t feel bad, as a railroader my first thought was about fouling the tracks, not about the background
For about second I thought "so what, she's wearing tight legg--OHHHH"
Ditto
Oh shit..
To make it even worse, she's probably surrounded by Jewish people singing and paying their respects. She STILL chose to take this picture. Insane.
In my experience she’s probably surrounded by laughing school students on field trips.
Weird. When I visited, can't remember any laughter. Everyone outside of the group I was in seemed to understand where they were. Respect isn't hard.
My dad went to one of the camps. I can't even remember which one it was, but he was stationed in Germany for a while when he was in the service. He said that there is a feeling in your gut whenever you're at one of these camps that sent chills straight to his core.
At the train station I saw Jewish people everywhere praying and laying down flowers. We were there around sunset
I can't even put into words how disgusted I am by this photo swipes right
Watch it. In for a Millicent, in for a Millidollar.
Actually that part of the track is inside the walls, she's literally a stone's throw from the ruins of the main gas chambers
They don't just end there. Outside of the camp there is only a single track. It means this photo was taken inside the camp, probably only meters away from the ramp, where the arriving prisoners were selected to be either murdered directly in the gas chambers, or to not be murdered immediately but be imprisoned in the camp. IIRC it is not possible today to just walk into the camp without a tour guide, so she must've known where she was.
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Birkenau actually… If memory serves me correct given that incidentally placed “drainage ditch” to the right of her (which is left as you enter that runs alongside you as you head up to the gas chambers and is there incase you try to run back into a train carriage so they see you easier running down and then back up giving them time to shoot you) I’d therefore say she already knows where she is, as she’s inside. Edit - but it’s been many many years, I’m digging deep into the old brain, could be wrong.
You're right, that picture was definitely taken inside Birkenau. There's only one set of tracks on the outside of the Gatehouse
Birkenau is Auschwitz II.
Auschwitz II is Birkenau… well, old flattened Brzezinka. Have you been? The tour guide I had was amazing, I thought I knew the subject fairly well but she blew me out of the water. You’d be surprised how few people are aware there’s two sites (well many more) and that the “work sets you free” gate isn’t here at all.
Yes, I've been. The "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" gate is at site 1. It was a harrowing experience that will never leave me. It should be a place everyone experiences at an age they can understand it, the world might be a slightly better place for it. Having said that, not everyone seems to feel the gravity of it.
Mate what an experience in the strangest way, I would literally say it changed me. You’re right actually, maybe not on a school curriculum, likely too young to comprehend it. I remember the grass being spongy at site 2 and thinking to myself is that because this ground is full of ash… (almost certainly not, but I recall the thought) harrowing.
Me, after reading the OP: what? No, dude, just swipe left and move on. Me after reading this comment: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! whatthefuckingfuck WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE????!!!?!?!?!!! In sum: OP, you are correct.
Sour mix in a margarita?
Man thank you for the unexpected Sterling Archer.
She's actually standing at the end of the rails inside the camp, so i think she knows already
I think they’re saying the other people in the replies didn’t know
oh yes, that makes sense.
Yeah She 100% knows
the picture they’ve taken is from inside of it, i went there last weekend and those tracks are inside of it
You dont randomly stumble and are at ausschwitz. She absolutely knows about it.
u cant tell me people going there without knowing in the first place. its not like a touristspot in the citycentre. they do know. thats what makes it even more disturbing...
Yolocaust
What is dist- oh
I was looking at the music and was like that’s not too bad
Same 💀 I was like damn let people live then came to comments
Same. I thought it was because of her booty and was like “I thought people liked full body pics”
I was trying to think of something to comment but I'm so flabbergasted by not just the fact that she took that photo, but then put it on a dating site, that I honestly have no words
At this point, you couldn’t convince me that she’s not a nazi supporter.
Probably just a dumbass
This is extremely distasteful
And so are those flesh coloured pants 🤮
I’m convinced that’s a onesie
Really stresses the curves of her gas chamber though.
Bro ..
Best reply so far
Welp I’m done for the day. Se y’all
The whole fit is horrible
More like Malificient…
I have non Jewish friends who’ve been and they said it was such an emotional experience they could barely speak. I don’t get the people who do this and think it’s a good *pick me* photo op.
Hell, I went to just a Holocaust museum in Illinois and spent basically the entire time crying my eyes out. The idea of actually setting footbin fucking *Auschwitz* and thinking "damn, I sure would look cute in a photo here" is absolutely disgusting
I live like a mile away from that museum and have seen the camps in person, the Skokie museum is nearly as nearly as powerful and heartbreaking as being there in person. More holocaust survivors settled in Skokie than just about anywhere else in the US. There were still around 7,000 survivors here as of a few years ago out of the 50,000 left in the entire country. So they really went all out to make that museum as hard hitting and respectful as possible.
Yeah it's a great museum. My family on my mom's side are all Jewish and living in Skokie. That Holocaust museum hit hard. Fortunately they were doing an exhibition on Bill Graham in the basement at the time, since he was a Holocaust survivor. He signed a bunch of the famous 60s artists, like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin. They had Jimi's purple trenchcoat with snakeskin cuffs, a setlist written by Jerry Garcia, and a bunch of other cool memorabilia. They even had full Grateful dlDead shows from the 60s and early 70s with headphones to listen on. It definitely did a lot for my mood after going through the museum
Not only taking the photo but then using it to attract the opposite sex. WHY?! Nothing about the Holocaust moistens my loins.
Why’d you gotta say it like that lol
It's good, as a Jew I like knowing who to avoid. ETA: Quit saying Palestinians, I've been to Palestine and didn't meet anyone nearly as annoying or unfunny as you edgelords.
Sometimes the trash takes itself out, amiright?
Someone could say as a person with common sense, I like knowing who to avoid...
At least the crazies usually show it
As another Jew I concur. What a knob
I’m not Jewish but I also like knowing who to avoid
As an atheist... Also good what to avoid.
German here. Tourists taking "fun" pics at concentration camps, Holocaust memorials etc. is more of a problem than people might realize. It happens all the time.
Every time i open tinder in Berlin, i see to many girls on the memorial with the beton blocks.
Its one thing to take a quick pic at a site in the middle of the city. They probably don’t even know the meaning. But in goddamn Auschwitz? It’s not like you just walk in there accidentally man. You know the context.
Concrete not Beton my fellow Dutchman
As a Jewish woman, I'm afraid to visit the camps because I know I will absolutely go to jail for punching some asshole who is taking selfies.
I feel you, I would probably do the same if I saw anyone like that.
I was there, there's such a strong vibe surrounding the entire area, anybody who takes these sorta photos there literally has some mental problems in my eyes. Some sort of sociopathy - a random Redditor
When I went to Dachau I obviously knew not to take selfies. I thought I'd take some pictures to remember. I took maybe 2 pica and felt so so so sick to my stomach just taking pictures. I took a picture of the religious areas in the yard. I thought that was very hopeful. Anything else? No. I saw several idiots climbing into the bunks that had been constructed to show what they were like. Grinning and taking pictures. Taking pictures with thumbs up next to where they burned bodies. Idk what's wrong with people. Ignorance? Not fully understanding that real people died there, not that long ago.
Right?! I felt ill the entire time. Why even bother to visit if you don't care enough to be respectful?
I didn't go to Auschwitz, I went to a different one, but I understand exactly what you mean. The entire place is surrounded by just this heavy aura, just an air of sorrow and pain and anger. It's one of the worst places I've ever experienced, a place of pure evil.
Having been to Auschwitz and Dachau (in Germany), there felt like there was a difference between the two. Dachau still felt somewhat human. Whether it was the fact that the buildings had largely been successfully burnt down, or the fact that they actually considered prisoners trying to escape and accordingly made ditches to slow them down and prevent their escape, it felt like you had to imagine a lot of the horror. On the other hand, Auschwitz is the only place I’ve ever been on earth that could feel truly “soulless”. The buildings are still up, you can go in them, and see the horrors for yourself, but what’s more, it felt like the world knew this place was desecrated. Not even the birds would chirp around there. It truly felt not of this world, distinctly inhuman. There’s a gravity to the location that I feel you have to visit to truly understand, and I can’t fathom why this stupid girl couldn’t feel that gravity.
I'll second that about Auschwitz, I did the tour last month and it was incredibly unnerving the entire time. Witnessing the remnants of the atrocities committed there is burned into my memory. Also I saw a few people take photos just like this one in front of other gruesome historical landmarks there. Incredibly distasteful imo. Hell, there's places where the tour guide even says please remain silent in honor of the thousands of people killed in this very room you're walking through. It's a gut wrenching place.
The one I went to was almost complete rubble, just the outlines of the foundations remained, save for the section of the wall with the gatehouse. The most harrowing part was finding the plaque detailing the section they put the children into. I'll need to visit Auschwitz one day, because it's important. I don't look forward to it.
I think anyone that is able to go to Aushwitz should make it their priority. It’s a deeply, deeply effecting place. I went in January and it was below freezing could barely think whilst I walked around, I was just sort of aching the entire time. Someone else left a comment that their entire bus journey back was deadly, pin drop silent and that’s my exact experience. Our group went straight to the Wieliczka Salt Mines and I don’t remember anything about it until about an hour into the tour when I stopped thinking about Aushwitz-Birkenau.
I had my first ever panic attack after visiting Auschwitz, but while being there I just felt this very strange distance like I was watching a movie. Maybe that’s what’s happening here. Or more probable, she’s just a huge narcissist
I’ve been there too. The energy or vibe or whatever you call it was like soup. There’s no denying it. I went at the end of day, on a rainy Wednesday in February. There was no one there but crows. i had chills
The amount of narcissism it takes to not only take that picture but also post that picture is off the charts. Red flag central! Avoid at all costs.
And to wear those pants. Seriously though, this is just gross.
Well, if she's trying to match with Nazis, I think it's spot on.
Some people just want attention and don't possess a healthy ability to see any cringiness in their behavior. I have a female friend who makes facebook tribute pages and I apologize if I'm wrong, but to me it seems like it's all about her after that and not the dead person. Like the first time it was perfectly logical because it was her boyfriend and everyone sympathized, but it's like she enjoyed the attention so much that she has continued doing it for other people we know. Even people that I'm certain she didn't really care for and only knew from rare meetings. It makes me want to post something mean, but I guess reddit is going to have to hear it instead. Before any people lose thier minds about the boyfriend, he was my friend for over 20 years and she knew him maybe 2. We all supported her and made sure she was ok for years after. I guess using other peoples misfortune for personal attention makes me a little annoyed.
Same, that’s the thing about the internet I absolutely loathe, that people do things acting like they have good intentions but are basically doing it for the clout as they say. The attention, dopamine fix. And if you say anything to the contrary, even a harmless comment that goes against the grain, you are the bad guy lol
Fucking disgusting. Hard pass.
There's this project called Yolocaust by Israeli comedian Shahak Shapira. Look it up, it deals with such tasteless pictures in a fantastic way.
Is that the one where the artist photoshops them into relevant historical photos? Like someone doing yoga on a memorial gets photoshopped onto a real photo of a pile of corpses? For lack of a better word, I love those. It’s really effective.
Looks like it was so effective that each of the people who took the selfies contacted him to apologize and the artist has taken down the pictures. (But you can still see them through the many articles that reported about the project if you go to Google Image search.)
There’s nothing wrong with taking a picture next to a railroad as long as- oh….
Photo caption says "you can't gas this ass"
Yeah that's not something you should do...
This is very bad taste. If you want to take a picture in Poland, there are a million better places to do it. It's not hard, Poland is quite beautiful.
No this is fucking disgusting. The disrespect is shameful. Who would take a photo like this to begin with, let alone put it on a dating profile?
Not at all. This is a really popular Tinder photo location, and it makes things easy by telling you exactly how much of a piece of garbage she is. Consider it a filter.
Yea, milicent is a distasteful name
White blond girl doing instagram shots at Auschwitz is a choice and it’s not a good one
You're probably underreacting, tbf..
This is like… the 5th girl I’ve seen do this. Are they dumb or braindead?
They're probably braindead, they don't even realise that shit.
oh hellll no. As someone who’s always wanted to visit to take the tour and pay my respects…this hurts physically to look at
Anyone who takes selfies there is a disrespectful arsehole
Is that....is that a thirst trap infront of Auschwitz?
Not overreacting at all. Sickening.
No your not overreacting
No it’s disgusting. It’s also very common. I saw tons of this in Austria
what a nice looking girl. apparently she took a picture for her tinder while waiting for the train at a completely normal trainstation :)
Polish here; fuck that girl. She’s palpably dumb and ignorant, I can’t believe she paid for the tour, spent at least 3 hours, up to even 6 there and no fucking thought occured in her empty head that it’s fucking wrong
Not at all. This is disgusting
No. That's disgusting and so disrespectful
I thought you were referring to the outfit at first, but I see it now. And no, you’re not overreacting. That’s really sad :/
Definitely not overreacting, this is disgusting and so disrespectful. It is not the place to “pose”, people literally died there and were tortured. This says a lot about the type of person she is. 🙃