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UMass Amherst Removed a Professor for Showing a Downfall Hitler Parody Video
Reason ^ | January 6, 2020 | Robby Soave

Posted on 01/07/2020 1:15:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

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To: NohSpinZone

It’s actually a good movie. Very dark though.


21 posted on 01/07/2020 1:47:28 PM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat

Can’t watch the scene with Goebbels children.

They couldn’t help who their parents were, in fact, of all them, I had the highest amount of hatred for Magda Goebbels.


22 posted on 01/07/2020 1:48:54 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Poor widdo snowfwakes.......


23 posted on 01/07/2020 1:55:14 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Boring video.

Huge overreaction on part of the administration. Lecturers are not tenured, totally at will.

Still no reason to fire her over this. They could simply say don’t show any Hitler parodies anymore, if they truly thought it was risky for the school or wrong. Or, they could say don’t show any parodies anymore.

Maybe they just want to hire someone cheaper, i.e. newer.


24 posted on 01/07/2020 2:05:26 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The funniest one was Hitler lost his health insurance under Obama and the new plans only in network doctor was Mengele.


25 posted on 01/07/2020 2:05:42 PM PST by setter
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To: Sans-Culotte

I’m with you...way too many Downfall parodies to watch another. But I decided I had to see this one knowing it was made by a student as an extra-credit project and the TEACHER got fired for the STUDENT having made it!

I’m glad I watched it. Great nerdy accounting humor and funny references to student life and burritos.

Your call, but I really recommend this one.


26 posted on 01/07/2020 2:06:14 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

AND gets a HUGE settlement from UMASS on her way out the door.


27 posted on 01/07/2020 2:07:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ifinnegan
...[the administrators] could say don’t show any parodies anymore...

...AND your classroom must look like this...


28 posted on 01/07/2020 2:10:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wonder if it was this one that mocks the Muzzies and Haj.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5AjMxpiuU


29 posted on 01/07/2020 2:10:50 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: dfwgator

I agree with you on that one. They were just cute little kids.

I never understood the logic behind it. But considering they were political lunatics, when compared to our own lunatics, it’s probably normal behavior. After all, it’s OK to abort your child after birth. The sick left.


30 posted on 01/07/2020 2:13:41 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: redfreedom

They probably figured the Russians would have tortured them. Can’t say those fears were totally unfounded, but still.


31 posted on 01/07/2020 2:19:03 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hitler is Obi-Wan Kenobi! (Alec Guinness) in Hitler: The Last Ten Days.


32 posted on 01/07/2020 2:19:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Definitely support! Sick of those lame boring damn parodies! 2nd offense should be the electric chair.


33 posted on 01/07/2020 2:20:34 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is remarkable that a college could be so upset over a Downfall parody. I guess now someone should make one of Hitler finding out the instructor has been fired.
34 posted on 01/07/2020 2:22:17 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The admins that pandered to these idiots should be arrested, tried and convicted of contributing to the delinquency of dumba**es.


35 posted on 01/07/2020 2:22:59 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: dfwgator

I thought of that. If my take on history is correct, Hermann Goering surrendered to the US Army because he figured he’d be treated better (for sure better than what the Russians would have done).

And if the Nazi intelligence services paid any attention, they would have known American and British would not have tortured them.

Many Nazis went to Argentina to save their bacon.

My point is, there were options.


36 posted on 01/07/2020 2:28:23 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

One of the best I’ve seen. Though most are great.

Saw one and it was in slow motion. Hitler couldn’t find the remote to bring it back up to normal speed. Steiner had it.


37 posted on 01/07/2020 2:31:02 PM PST by moovova
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To: dfwgator

Ironically, in the full-length (directors’ cut?) version of the movie, the first Soviet troops into the bunker are women. When they find the room with the dead children, they are horrified.


38 posted on 01/07/2020 2:35:15 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Democrats are evil scum.


39 posted on 01/07/2020 2:39:25 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
As a lifelong resident of the Gay State my favorite Downfall parody is the one where Scott Brown was elected to fill the Senate seat that Ted Kennedy had scammed for about 50 years.

Agreed. That one was beyond brilliant. Unfortunately, it went away when the imbeciles who owned the rights to Downfall had the parodies pulled because of copyright claims. It takes a special kind of stupid to fail to realize that the parodies were the best marketing an old movie could ever have.

Did the Scott Brown version ever reappear? I've looked for it a couple of times and couldn't find it.

40 posted on 01/07/2020 2:47:52 PM PST by sphinx
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