Greek football player banned for life for Nazi salute.

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spurgeonryan said:
I thought Nazis were extinct? Who cares? Maybe a fine and a few games ban. If anything. Are people not allowed to be Nazis if they want to be?

How can they be extinct? Go to Germany and you can still meet many of them. It's not like the "bad" Germans vaporised in 1944 and were substituted with "good" ones. I actually recall when I was living in Germany I was in a tram and a very old man entered the tram. Since all seats were taken, I got up and offered him mine - normal. After a moment I realised, that there is actually a big chance that this old man when he was young would put a bullet in my head just because of my origin and now I'm offering him a seat... I think that really tells a lot about Europe and how far we've gone now. IIWW is not ancient history, Nazi Germans are not fairy tales, they are people who still live and do everyday stuff, eat, sleep, shop, vote. Many of their victims, prisoners of death camps are still alive as well. Maybe you don't care, cause for you Nazis are just some fictional characters that Captain America fought against, but for us this is a big deal and we really do care.

No, over here people are not allowed to be Nazis even if they want that very much. That's why even Wolfenstein 3D has been banned in Austria (to this day I believe) and had to be heavily modified (all swastikas cut out, the soundtrack changed and final boss changed as well) to be allowed in Germany.

Jumpin said:

If he's Greek, he knew what he was doing, otherwise he's mentally retarded. He's banned for life because that Greek football team does not want their employees showing to the world that they are OK with paying homage to the what history has judged the most evil genocidal tyrant we have ever known. There are still a great many people who were alive in that time, and a great many people who fought in that war, and a great many people who suffered in that war.

It would be logically stupid to just let this slide. It has nothing to do with "Oh, well this might not be politically correct!" That's a a silly American view, and this isn't the US we're talking about. This is a place where people don't want to be rememinded of those atrocities they suffered not because some silly person with a bow-tie decides "Oh, I think that must be offensive, so I am going to be offended."  This decision was made by the logic that there would be backlash otherwise.

Lenin, Stalin and Mao would lol.