That’s actually very missleading, like most involved companies they tried everything to hide it till the shitstorm got too big and the damage to their image was smaller that way so we shouldn’t give them any credit for that whatsoever!!!
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Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I recently was in the BMW museum and they actually had a whole section dedicated to their Nazi past and how they want to never do that again. Do with that what you will but at least they’re not shoving it under the carpet.
Gamey@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Every single business in existence will sell out any value they say they hold for profit.
If they don’t another business will, welcome to capitalism.
toyg@feddit.nl 9 months ago
TBF, Disney is not buckling under pressure from the Florida Nazi governor.
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Disney don’t give a fuck about LBGTQIA+.
There’s just more profit in performative concern for that community.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They have a lot more to lose if they do.
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I know that. But we still need to support the companies that do shit we want, so it’s more profitable to do so.
nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel a little more sympathetic to them for the Nazi stuff than for any current shit they pull.
I have to wonder, had they said no, what the German state would have then done to them. Essentially any state can require a company to produce wartime goods.
tallwookie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
better than IBM I guess
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 9 months ago
Just curious, what did they do?
Delphia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They did what they were told and didnt argue.
Same as Hugo Boss made SS uniforms, a lot of german people and companies at the time just went along. Even if they didnt wholeheartedly swallow the propaganda, even if they quietly hated the Nazi regime, they saw those that spoke out beaten, killed or straight up vanish. Some of the companies willingly stuck their heads in the sand and just went along because they knew that to resist was to mark yourself, and to cooperate was to profit.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah that is some great info, but what does IBM has to do with Nazi?
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 9 months ago
Oh I knew what BMW did, I was just asking about IBM
Zehzin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hugo Boss, the guy, was a major nazi though. Active party member.
gornar@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Like IBM!
TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Their current symbol looks like a painted over swastika, so I’m sure their future will continue be a painted over swastika.
nodimetotie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
no, that’s just the Bavarian checkers, pretty common across Bavaria
marty@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Actually it resembles an aircraft propeller, because that’s what their engines were for.
wewbull@feddit.uk 9 months ago
So does OPs picture. It’s a propeller, right?
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 9 months ago
And a cross is a swastika without arms… your point?
poopknife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
and then there is Austria…
zaph@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s important not to forget the past. If America treated slavery the same way we’d be a lot further socially.
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If America treated . the same way we’d be a lot further as a society
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is that a face or are you referring to the asterisk wildcard and implying you can put any social evil instead of the asterisk?
NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Was trying to do the star dot star thing when you search for something in Windows. What’s the programming equivalent of “everything”?
5redie8@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
As a helpdesk tech this command made me chuckle
ox0r@jlai.lu 9 months ago
Reminder that the USA was a big inspiration for the nazis.
They pretty much wanted to make a USA II
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s not like they used IQ tests as justification for forced sterilization or anything… Wait what?
BigNote@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yes and no. They also saw the US as ethnically impure and therefore weak. The 4th Reich wasn’t going to have that problem.
SneedsFeednSeed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
American here. What is this “slavery” you speak of?
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 9 months ago
I didn't know either, so I consulted some textbooks from Florida. Turns out, it was a long-term internship program that the New World set up to help out the uncivilized savages from Africa.
As I understand it, it was a physically demanding program, and most of those who participated didn't make it to the end, but those who did gained life skills that would continue to impact not only them, but generations of their dependents.
Some, especially teachers in Florida who wish to keep their jobs, might say it was the very first Affirmative Action program. When you look at it that way, we should be proud of this part of our heritage.
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I wish the UK would do the same. At least in the US they learn a bit about slavery - here in the UK we learn nothing about the British Empire and its atrocities. No wonder we have statues of slave traders everywhere.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I know there is regional variation on how the slave trade is taught, but when I was in school we had numerous, extended, and graphic discussions on the horrors of the slave trade starting from elementary school and extending into college.
zaph@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Without doxxing yourself could you give an idea of where you went to school? I went to public school in the south and other than being mentioned I didn’t learn much about slavery in school. I mean we learned about the underground railroad and generally knew about the slave trade and that being a slave was about the worst thing humanly possible. But other than getting whipped they didn’t talk about much of the torture or punishments they’d went through. Civil rights I remember being discussed more in depth than slavery but when I was a kid I attributed it through the fact that most of my teachers remember the civil rights movement from when they were my age. Sorry I’m high so I’m rambling now.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I grew up in California
I’m not surprised about your experience though. I have also lived in the south and many of the southern states are still feeling the effects of decades of extensive lobbying on education by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
They DoC has historically pushed a narrative about slaves being happy and content overall, cared for by empathetic masters who valued their well-being. There are many monuments still standing glorifying the wartime deeds done by “loyal” and happy slaves. It’s really insidious.