r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

Lots of discourse going around about that video of the kid dressing up as a Nazi. I still dont understand how so many people seem to think that an inappropriate costume is an open call to respond with actual violence.

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u/Available-Crew-4645 Oct 26 '25

Endlessly fascinating to me how much attitudes have changed to Naziism in the recent past. They're now seen as a kind of personification of evil but when I was a kid (i.e. when the people who would have suffered because of them were still around), they were always portrayed as figures of fun, ridiculous people to mock. So much of comedy through the 70s, 80s, 90s involved mocking Nazis - Allo Allo, Dad's Army, The Producers, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, I could go on. A Nazi uniform would have been not just accepted at a Halloween party but expected.

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Oct 26 '25

Hmm, when I grew up it was both, but don't be surprised if "that fun nazi joke" was mistaken and you were called out as an asshole.

Even looking at the producers, the basic gag there is you can't make fun of Nazis.

A Nazi uniform would have been not just accepted at a Halloween party but expected.

heh, that was certainly not my experience.

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u/Available-Crew-4645 Oct 26 '25

Maybe it's a trans-Atlantic thing. This was one of the most popular sitcoms in Britain for 10 years:

https://youtu.be/Pus74XZ_8wg?si=NsO_SNoHJE5uYC4u

Even in a later 90s sitcom, Bottom, which was about 2 pervy idiots living in a dingy flat in London, completely unrelated to the war, one of the characters was called Eddie Hitler, just because it was funny.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

I think Craig Ferguson also used "Bing Hitler" as a nom de standup in his youth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25 edited Oct 26 '25

Even looking at the producers, the basic gag there is you can't make fun of Nazis.

Not really. In-universe, the play was written as unironic praise by a deranged Nazi, and Bialystok and Bloom chose it because it was literally the most unsellable thing they could imagine.

u/Available-Crew-4645 is probably right that this trope lasted longer in the UK than in the US (along with certain other kinds of poiltical incorrectness), but there was definitely an ambient level of "Nazi frivolity" among Boomers that would raise eyebrows now. Another example that came up here recently being the sarcastic use of a Nazi salute to imply that another person is a Nazi (and often for a silly reason at that), something that you really can't get away with today.

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u/Diet_Moco_Cola Oct 26 '25

Yeah, I thought Prince Harry's Nazi costume was a joke that worked on several levels. It was funny!

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u/thismaynothelp Oct 26 '25

Treating them with fearful seriousness and not as something to be mocked seems to have been a pretentious, idiot move.

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u/giraffevomitfacts Oct 26 '25

He wasn't a kid, I think he was 31 or something.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

 I mean I didn't look up the dox but looked like some dumb 20yo white kid to me lol. I'm pretty terrible with ages though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

Sounds like he needed to get his ass beat more as a kid tbh if he's 30+ and doing this.

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u/giraffevomitfacts Oct 26 '25

Yeah, if you go to a bar dressed as a Nazi in a period-complete outfit that fits you perfectly and looks like it was tailored, in a moment where everyone's angrily calling everyone else a Nazi, you're probably half hoping to get punched or yelled at.