# "Hitler was half Jewish and half German" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 3, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679 "2005-03-03T00:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/161 "2005-03-07T21:50:08Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > And if you can’t comprehend that it would be offensive to an ethnic group to see 1) statement of an idea that most members of the group would find repulsive, (in this case, that Hitler was “Jewish”), followed by 2) a remark that “well, those \_\_\_\_women sure are hot!” - then your mental processes and empathy are certainly deficient today. My mental processes and empathy must be deficient. I think it’s funny. _shrug_ (I’m not touching the generalization made in the statement “offensive to an ethnic group.” Because, you know, ethnic groups. Hive minds, all of 'em. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/162 "2005-03-07T21:54:30Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Try this: making fun of the juvenile generalization that all members of a particular racial or ethnic group are “hot”. Strawman. Nobody said such a thing. You suffer from the same flaw as Finn. You fail to comprehend _implied_ meaning in language. When I say, for example, “Asian women are hot”, I _really_ mean, “There are some, but certainly not all, asian women who have certain characteristics in common which I find attractive.” I don’t _say_ all that because I’m not a fucking idiot. > [@](#): > > And if you can’t comprehend that it would be offensive to an ethnic group to see 1) statement of an idea that most members of the group would find repulsive, (in this case, that Hitler was “Jewish”), followed by 2) a remark that “well, those \_\_\_\_women sure are hot!” - then your mental processes and empathy are certainly deficient today. I don’t believe SPOOFE intended to imply any kind of connection between his remark and Hitler. Frankly, the fact that you would believe so makes me think YOU are the one with the deficiency. And furthermore, I can only assume, since you reacted with such hostility, and still haven’t clarified what you meant, that you DID mean your comments about Jews not being in sex hotlines as a slam against Jewish women, which truly IS offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/163 "2005-03-07T21:58:21Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > I don’t _say_ all that because I’m not a fucking idiot. Based on this and prior interactions, I would beg to differ. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/164 "2005-03-07T22:03:19Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Based on this and prior interactions, I would beg to differ. Clever. Did you think that one up all by yourself? :rolleyes: In those prior interactions, did you actually have anything to say, or did you just resort to name-calling like you’re doing here? I’m guessing the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/165 "2005-03-07T22:16:05Z")
All Jack and Finn posters are way to sensitive! Now, did I truly mean every poster with Jack or Finn in their name? Or can you infer that I mean the two knuckles who keep posting in this thread because someone commented that Jewish girls are hot? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/166 "2005-03-07T22:28:13Z")
**SPOOFE** ’s comments are no big deal to me, **blowero**. You on the other hand, keep stubbornly clinging to the idea that no reasonable person could _possibly_ be offended by this type of remark, in the context of the OP or in general, and rather than acknowledge that a member of the ethnic group in question _might just_ have a different view on the matter than you, you pick a fight and then act peeved at the consequences. You’re a moron. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/167 "2005-03-08T00:33:37Z")
:d ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/168 "2005-03-08T03:38:43Z")
Blowero: …“did you actually have anything to say, or did you just resort to name-calling like you’re doing here? I’m guessing the latter.” Jackmannii: “You’re a moron.” Guess we have our answer. 😃 And Gawd, after whining about me “hijacking yet another thread with his last word replies”, and after I LET you have the last word, you STILL can’t shut the fuck up. Jesus, you’re an asshole. LET IT DROP! ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/169 "2005-03-08T06:37:13Z")
Just a quick little note to you about having the last word. Unlike you, I do not waste my breath composing an argument for the sake of having the last word, like you do. All of your posts are so fucking devoid of content they might all be considered as such, however. I’m just glad that I’m not the only one who thinks you’re the most empty-headed asshole in this community-proven in your most recent posts by the fact that you STILL don’t have a fucking clue about what the last 3 pages of this thread are about. Please, don’t slip a gear trying to compose something as empty-headed as usual just for the sake of having the last word though. You can take heart in the fact that I don’t really gauge “winning” or “losing” an argument by who yells last. Moron. Sam ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/170 "2005-03-08T06:51:03Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > Unlike you, I do not waste my breath composing an argument for the sake of having the last word. Yeah…right. :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > You can take heart in the fact that I don’t really gauge “winning” or “losing” an argument by who yells last. > > Sam I think you’ve proven that you do. I GAVE you the chance to have the last word, but you weren’t even satisfied with THAT. You had to put in your little emoticon, just because you just can’t fucking let ANYTHING drop. Well you had your chance, so guess what? Now you DON’T get to have the last word. I’m staying here and calling you out for what a childish prick you are, and I’m gonna keep coming back every time you put in one of your little “last word” posts. Yes, now you are my bitch. And why don’t we _really_ take the gloves off here, Sam. I just can’t take ANYTHING you say seriously ever since you made such an ass of yourself in that other thread when you insisted that it’s o.k. to call your motorcycle a “Jap bike”. I mean, you’re obviously an idiot. You live in the Bay Area, for God’s sake; you don’t even have an _excuse_ for your ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/171 "2005-03-08T06:59:05Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > I’m just glad that I’m not the only one who thinks you’re the most empty-headed asshole in this community-proven in your most recent posts by the fact that you STILL don’t have a fucking clue about what the last 3 pages of this thread are about. Oh, and I wouldn’t get too much of a boner about Jackmannii seeming to be on the same side as you. In case you didn’t notice (and you probably didn’t), you guys are arguing the exact _opposite_ point. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/172 "2005-03-08T15:48:58Z")
Well, honey, to level the playing field completely- I haven’t been able to take your ass seriously since the Hemi thread in which you acted much the same as this one. You brought in weird abstract ideas to argue, botched cites, obfuscated and generally just shot your mouth off. And whether you like it or not, People still call them “Jap bikes” despite the region in which I live, and despite the connotation in which they denote. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/173 "2005-03-08T17:19:30Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > And why don’t we _really_ take the gloves off here, Sam. I just can’t take ANYTHING you say seriously ever since you made such an ass of yourself in that other thread when you insisted that it’s o.k. to call your motorcycle a “Jap bike”. Better take nothing I say seriously, too, then. Mind you, I mostly had non-Jap crap though I did have a UJM for 7 years or so. BfT (Car-free biker for many, many years, forced to get my first car recently, alas). ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/174 "2005-03-08T18:22:41Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > Well, honey, to level the playing field completely- I haven’t been able to take your ass seriously since the Hemi thread in which you acted much the same as this one. You brought in weird abstract ideas to argue, botched cites, obfuscated and generally just shot your mouth off. Tut, tut - Sam. You’re not allowed to get the last word here. I know it really gnaws away at you when you don’t get the last post, but tough shit for you. Cars, on average, are lighter and therefore faster than trucks. If you entered a truck in a Formula 1 race, it would not win. This is beyond common sense, but then, you have none. > [@](#): > > And whether you like it or not, People still call them “Jap bikes” despite the region in which I live, and despite the connotation in which they denote. > > Sam You’re not only ignorant, you’re arrogant as well. Even if you know people who do it, that doesn’t make it right. You live in a fairly progressive area, and you _should_ know better. The fact that you and your friends are willfully ignorant doesn’t mitigate that fact. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/175 "2005-03-08T18:24:32Z")
> [@Boldface Type](#): > > Better take nothing I say seriously, too, then. > > Mind you, I mostly had non-Jap crap though I did have a UJM for 7 years or so. > > BfT (Car-free biker for many, many years, forced to get my first car recently, alas). Sorry, I can only handle one cretin at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/176 "2005-03-08T18:30:42Z")
We started out with a mention of Hitler and now it’s devolved into pointless rounds of arguing and name-calling. It’s like Godwin’s Law in reverse. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/177 "2005-03-08T18:35:01Z")
Sorry, I tried to end it, but Sam wouldn’t give up. I refuse to keep seeing him take potshots at me and not say anything. ---
**Author:** ![Boldface\_Type](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@Boldface\_Type](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boldface_Type)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/178 "2005-03-08T19:18:43Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Sorry, I can only handle one cretin at a time. What, you need 2 hands to masturbate? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/179 "2005-03-08T19:33:18Z")
Potshots, blowero? I posted a smiley in response to another poster’s comments to you. If you’re such a whiner that you can’t handle my amusement , then tough shit. Another thing I notice about you. You seem to think that everyone is “arrogant” and “haughty” and “ignorant”. Is this some superiority complex you have or what? Sam ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679/180 "2005-03-08T20:09:39Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > Potshots, blowero? I posted a smiley in response to another poster’s comments to you. If you’re such a whiner that you can’t handle my amusement , then tough shit. Oh, now you want to argue about what is or isn’t a “potshot”? Man, are you ever a tedious motherfucker. :rolleyes: > [@](#): > > Another thing I notice about you. You seem to think that everyone is “arrogant” and “haughty” and “ignorant”. Is this some superiority complex you have or what? > > Sam I said Finn was haughty (and that was pretty much the general consensus among _everyone_ here). And I said you were arrogant. Only in your delusional mind is that equivalent to “everyone”. I just think it’s SO funny that you accuse me of having a superiority complex after saying: > [@](#): > > If your lack of understanding of linguistics and anthropology are going to be a hangup for this discussion, I suggest it’s best that you leave the conversation. I hadn’t said “boo” to you before you just came up with that one out of the blue. I can scarcely imagine a comment more indicative of a superiority complex than yours. It’s as though you just take every characteristic of _yours_, and call other people that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitler-was-half-jewish-and-half-german/292679.md?page=10)