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Some rando on Twitter reposting an screenshot of an anonymous person claims the following: https://twitter.com/barrydeutsch/status/1618697230382399488

> This article hasn't framed the incident accurately at all. the incident was two theta girls posted a Snapchat story of them reading Mein Kampf as part of their costumes at a pregame and laughing, clearly in a joking way, not at all in a historical way. The joke was in poor taste which is why it got such a negative response (as it should). Obviously people can read Mein Kampf, but that's not what's contested here.

I imagine this story is going to get stupider.

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Stanford review story link. That confirms OP.

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/22/protected-identity-harm...

> laughing, clearly in a joking way, not at all in a historical way

What should the penalty be for laughing in a non-"historical way"?

From our government? Nothing. From a private organization? Whatever their rules are, as long as they are within the law. It is exceedingly common for private organizations to have standards of behavior that are much more than required by law.

The penalty according to Stanford Daily would be "reckoning". This is all very silly.

Battling the temptation to laugh in a joking way.

A indigenous circle practice

Mein Kampf is reportedly and famously an extremely boring book, so if you can laugh at it you can laugh at anything.

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

I’ve read it. I’m not sure I’d call it boring, as I was making parallels to what actually happened after it was written the entire time, but it’s definitely monotonous.

The author was a better artist than writer, and you might remember how that career turned out for him.

>The author was a better artist than writer, and you might remember how that career turned out for him.

And then it turned out that politics became his most successful career. People didn't like his art or writing enough to make a stable career out of those things, but they were more than happy to vote for him and then follow him into a disastrous, brutal war and also build extermination camps for murdering millions.

I think there's a lesson here about what kind of people go into politics, and how bad people are at choosing their leaders.

I a bit of a nutter and ran for a local election because nobody sane would run against this truly crazy lady.

Seriously, if your remotely a decent person of any political stripe please consider running for a election. Especially if you don't want to. You'll do a lot of good.

I choose my leaders based on those who volunteer. To quote Bill Clinton "the best candidate never runs". If the choice is a demagogue or an idiot, which do you choose?

And if you're not happy with these choices, why aren't you running?

>And if you're not happy with these choices, why aren't you running?

If I see two ballerinas competing, and I'm not happy with either of them, me becoming a ballerina myself isn't actually a viable alternative.

The idea that anyone could be a good leader is incredibly ridiculous and myopic.

The book is a symbol for the immense suffering inflicted by the Nazi regime. I can sympathize with not wanting students brazenly laughing at that in front of a large audience. It’s not a good look - they aren’t representing the university well.

That being said, I’m not sure what general rule I would want to set if I was in charge of this policy at a university. It’s certainly a thorny issue.

As a person who had family members who fought the WWII and who suffered from said nazis, may I ask to let people laugh at whatever book they want to? There’s no harm in it whatsoever. Thank you.

The Stanford Review commentary on this also includes the same screenshot and claim. It seems that this can be taken as reliable, coming from an insider, semi-official source.

I'd discount that entirely until a more-reliable source surfaces.

Given that there are supposedly sorority sisters wearing costumes for which Mein Kampf is somehow a relevant prop, the book seems an odd detail to fixate on.

The only detail the article and anonymous source agree on is that Mein Kampf was the name of the book.

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