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Re: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?
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Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:48:26 GMT
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   BUT Keith Goldman makes Iron Reich creations you might say...

Well, yes, he does, but they don’t specifically relate to Nazism or Germany circa WWII (as far as I can tell). Fascism still exists in the world, and probably will never be eradicated. It is a broad, loosely defined idea that keeps coming back throughout history. Keith is simply addressing this concept, just as Leonard Hoffman frames his creations around a Communist backdrop. On the other hand Nazism is dead and should stay that way. To try to trivialize it is WRONG.

Regardless, I can see why some people don’t find this a big deal. I guess because the war personally affected my family, it impacts me a bit more.

I’d like to point out a difference between “trivialization” and “satire.” Much of what Keith and I do is to satirize and mock the ideologies of our respective subthemes. (However, I should point out I am a socialist/communist, but I am not a marxist/leninist/stalinist)

Trivialize would be to make it seem as if the Nazis were not that bad. Satirizing or Mocking, is to make fun of the Nazis for being ignorant and stupid. My point here is if we continue to hold some past ideology in some sort of feared status, then we are continuing to give that ideology power and influence.

At University of North Florida, one of my anthropology professors (Keith Akins) conducted a anthropological study (that would be Participant Observer) on the KKK and NeoNazis in Florida. His insights were amazing - but when asked what normal people could do to fight this threat, he said: ‘Mock them. Laugh at them. If you fear them, then they feel empowered. But if you mock them, you show them for what they really are: pathetic and stupid.’

-Lenny



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(...) Orion, perhaps you are right and the majority of people concur, but let me explain myself. Creating WWII-themed guns, minifigs, tanks, dioramas, etc. is okay in my opinion since it is recreating something from the past (it's historical). For (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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