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| 1065.1 | You will never see it all!! | TAVIS::BARUCH | in the land of milk and honey | Thu May 02 1991 10:26 | 14 |
| Re 1065.0
> Just when you thought you'd seen it all. What kind of @#$%^&* lunatics
> do we have in this world? :-(
Phyllis, you have never seen it all. There is so much evil, stupidity and
ignorance around the world that you will never have the pleasure of saying
that you will not see some new abhorrance.
Is this the first video or computer game that is based on evil? If it is, I
will be amazed.
Shalom
Baruch
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| 1065.2 | Computer Kultur? | TAVIS::BARUCH | in the land of milk and honey | Thu May 02 1991 14:47 | 27 |
| Further to my previous reply, I have just seen today's copy of the
Jerusalem Post, and found this headline on a page 2 article:
"Neo-Nazi computer games found in Germany, Austria"
According to the article: "More than one in five teenagers in Salzburg,
Austria, has seen or played one of more than 100 neo-Nazi computer
games that the Simon Wiesenthal Center believes are circulating widely
in Austria and Germany."
Another quote: "One game, called "Aryan Test", includes the following
multiple choice questions:
Get rid of the Jews by...
A)Ovens
B)Making them into soft soap
C)Dispatch them by airmail to Israel
The Jews are...
A)Our misfortune
B)Guilty of everything
C)Us, ourselves "
Anyone still think that anti-semitism is part of history?
Shalom
Baruch
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| 1065.3 | A feeling of deja-vu | DESTOP::MONTY | I'd rather be TAVENG::MONTY | Thu May 02 1991 19:42 | 11 |
| Baruch,
I saw the report of these "games" on the TV yesterday .... It was
pretty sick. On the other hand, this world is not short of really sick
people :-(
However, I can't help feeling that I saw a similiar report about Nazi
games about 18 monthes ago. Are these a new set of games or has the
media just re-discovered them again ???
.... Monty
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| 1065.4 | And so it continues.......... | TAVIS::BARUCH | in the land of milk and honey | Sun May 05 1991 14:53 | 17 |
| Monty, I do not know whether these are a new set of games or the
18-month old set you mentioned just getting new publicity. However,
according to the reports they seem to be getting a lot of use.
The main target of some of the games is reported to be the Turks, but
do not get "jealous" as there is still plenty of hatred coming in the
direction of our people. The main reason is probably the large number
of Turkish workers in Germany, as opposed to the comparatively small
Jewish population. It will be interesting to see how stongly the
German and Austrian governments pursue the individuals or companies
that are distibuting these games.
Could anyone reading this file from Germany and/or Austria please give
us a local reaction.
Shalom
Baruch
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| 1065.5 | I suspect that in the US they'd be protected | MINAR::BISHOP | | Sun May 05 1991 21:45 | 4 |
| Don't Germany and Austria have some equivalent to the US first
amendment which would prevent those governments "going after"
offensive games?
-John Bishop
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| 1065.6 | Protection for evil? | TAVIS::BARUCH | in the land of milk and honey | Mon May 06 1991 09:55 | 15 |
| Re 1065.5
> Don't Germany and Austria have some equivalent to the US first
> amendment which would prevent those governments "going after"
> offensive games?
John, I sincerely hope not! I, for one, do not believe that anyone should
have total freedom to disseminate hatred for ones fellow man.
Does the "First" allow you to do/say anything you want, even if it stirs up
hatred and violence? If so, that is an amazing infringement on the rights of
those who are subsequently injured as a result of such hatred and violence.
Shalom
Baruch
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| 1065.7 | No, Nazism is illegal in Germany | TACT04::SID | | Mon May 06 1991 15:45 | 17 |
| Re 1065.5
> Don't Germany and Austria have some equivalent to the US first
> amendment which would prevent those governments "going after"
> offensive games?
No, what they have is a law, dating from WW2, which makes it illegal to
belong to a Nazi organization, to use Nazi symbols, to espouse Nazi
philisophy. The historical background to these laws is apparent.
The issue of right to free speech versus the right to be protected from
hatred is a complicated one (cf. the American Nazi march on Skokie (circa
1979) in a neighborhood where many holocaust survivors lived). But in
places like Germany, they prefer to err, justifiably in my opinion, on
the side of suppression of the Nazi party.
Sid
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