Never ask if it's possible for Amanda Palmer to fail more

[lisaquestions]

sparkymonster lays down the facts on Amanda's latest fail. Between this and the response to criticism of Evelyn/Evelyn? No limits on the fail.

Some of the pictures at Sparkymonsters post are potentially triggering images of racist violence. Be warned.

h/t karnythia

Comments

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Oh god, what the fuck is her problem?

Thanks for the warning about the pictures. I looked anyway but yeah, the reality of Naziism is ... sobering.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although the KKK predates Naziism by several decades. 1865 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan) by southern Civil War veterans, specifically.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Didn't realise the organisation went back that far. How depressing :-(

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

It was a direct backlash to the end of slavery in the US.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Makes sense now I think about it.

[snugglebitch.livejournal.com]

One of the (many) reasons it took so long for the US to enter WWII was that we didn't really have any beef with the Nazis. They were doing a lot of the same things we were doing (sterilizing "undesirables," creating internment camps, genocide), they just took them to the nadir (and then lost a war, so their sins were writ large on the international scene, whereas ours nobody talks about).

[estrobutch.livejournal.com]

and weren't there war dollars helping float our depressed economy?

[sin-nombre.livejournal.com]

We had business interests there, yeah. No one likes to talk about American 'heroes' who supported the Nazis, either--Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, etc.

I'm sure it also helped that, as the Germans had already shown, mobilizing for war on a large scale helps get countries out of the throes of a deep depression.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Kennedy senior........

It wasn't only Nazi Germany that endorsed Eugenic theories between the wars- it was, frighteningly, a commonplace throughout the 'developed' world.