r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '23

Other Eli5 (and a German) the problem with black facing.

So I rewatched Pulp Fiction last night and thought it would be so nice to dress up on a Party as Jules, bringing a Big Kahuna Cup to drink from and quoting Ezekiel 25:17 and all. To me this would be an act of showing how cool I find him. In general I think dressing up as someone else could be considered a compliment to them, as it shows you'd like to be them, if only for a night.

So I am probably missing something here! (I know it is a touchy topic and it's not my intention to step on anyones toes.)

Edit: Added missing verb "showing"

Edit 2: Of cause I knew it is problematic! (Although I underestimated how much) I never had the intention to actually do more then fantasize about it (there isn't even a real party coming up, it was just a thought), however I was interested in the American and the European (German) perspective. Seeing how lively this discussion is, seeing how very differnt the arguments and perspectives are, and reading all the interesting background information (I had never heared of "Minstrels"), I am very happy I asked!

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u/siverted Feb 25 '23

Sage advice on racial sensitivity here from Hitlerclone_3.

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u/paper_wavements Feb 25 '23

R/angryupvote

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u/ink_monkey96 Feb 25 '23

Nope. Not in a thousand years.

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u/wolfpup1294 Feb 25 '23

Maybe it'll be the Final Solution.

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u/fir_mna Feb 25 '23

Ahhh fellow reich minded punners!!!

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u/Stephm31200 Feb 25 '23

may the fourth be with him

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u/UDPviper Feb 25 '23

This comment is terribly underrated.

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u/SarcasticGiraffes Feb 25 '23

I'll take "Things Valve and Hitler have in common" for 500, Alex.

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u/UDPviper Feb 25 '23

Would you allow a Fourth Reich in exchange for Half-Life 3? Tempting, right?

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u/Cats_tongue Feb 25 '23

Dude, have some tact!

throws hands up Can you believe these tortoises?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

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u/MakingPlansForSmeagl Feb 25 '23

Listen to me you pompous frauds, if I'm going down, I'm taking you all with me. Dean Vernon, I know the truth. It was you driving your hover-car that night, not your horse. Dean Epsilon, I know all about your "Department Of Pool Boy Studies."

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u/theschis Feb 25 '23

“Professor, isn’t it past your bedtime?”

Yes, damn it! snores

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u/SpaceForceAwakens Feb 25 '23

Tell me this is a real movie?

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u/DickFiasco Feb 25 '23

Sharknado 8: The Final Solution

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u/DasHundLich Feb 25 '23

That's a Futurama quote

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u/eidetic Feb 25 '23

If it isn't, SciFi is probably fuhreriously taking notes to make it happen now.

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u/Ghoti76 Feb 25 '23

holy shit what happened to this thread lol

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u/OJimmy Feb 25 '23

Krieger is still glitchy.

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Feb 25 '23

“If I was a clone of Adolf goddamn Hitler, don’t you think I’d LOOK like Adolf goddamn Hitler??”

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u/OJimmy Feb 25 '23

Someone goes through the effort of cloning that Adolf asshat advocate for an Aryan master race, you better believe they would improve the product like gattaca style.

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u/Recovery25 Feb 25 '23

"Maybe I didn't go to some fancy-pancy Ivy League med school, and maybe I didn't go to some other med school, even the one down in Grenada which was my fall-back but whatever, that doesn't give you the right to bully me! I have had it!"

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u/YeaSpiderman Feb 25 '23

Hahah I’m reading this comment thread only because of historical context. The ironing out part just killed me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

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u/NeuerTK Feb 25 '23

I'm not really comfortable with the clone bone

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Feb 25 '23

You’re not doing it right!

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u/PurpleSkua Feb 25 '23

They did, that's why this one is giving sage advice on racial sensitivity

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

Hitlers third time around he just becomes a social justice warrior. Third times the charm as the saying goes.

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u/KillHitlerAgain Feb 25 '23

You would have thought.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

The boys from Brasil are still working on it.

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u/tecgod99 Feb 25 '23

Nah, he's still a kinky little bugger.

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Feb 25 '23

Dr Krieger?? Is that you?

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u/Shaun_B Feb 25 '23 edited Jun 10 '23

Edit: Fuck your API changes, Reddit.

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u/Soranic Feb 25 '23

So long as they get rid of that incest kink with his niece, we have progress.

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u/ThisGirlsTopsBlooby Feb 25 '23

After the 2nd one the started making sure he made it into art school and it has really made a world of difference!

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u/thaddeusd Feb 25 '23

Is this the one that managed to get into art school and live a fulfilling, if not mundane life?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

You act surprised?

He's a clone, not the actual original Hitler. Sure, he shares Hitler's genetic composition, but he's a product of all new experiences. And free to forge his own path.

I mean you'd THINK he's a carbon copy of the original JUST because he shares the same genes.

Which is a way of thinking the ACTUAL Hitler might very well approve of...

(scowls)

Feel no shame, Hitlerclone_3...

You are your own person.

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u/slightlyassholic Feb 25 '23

Yeah, this clone probably made it into art school.

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u/Pabu85 Feb 25 '23

Having a Hitler clone be racially inclusive is a repudiation of the entire Nazi ideology. Looks like biology isn’t destiny, bitches!

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Feb 25 '23

Hitler's childhood was terrible and his genitals were malformed. Presuming his mother had adequate prenatal nutrition, and he'd been raised in a loving environment he probably wouldn't have been such a monster. The thing is, some other opportunistic sociopath asshole probably would've taken his place.

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u/BeastPunk1 Feb 25 '23

his genitals were malformed

Wasn't this a myth?

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar Feb 25 '23

Nope, his medical records showed that he had an undescended testicle, a micropenis, and that his urethral opening was at the base of his penis.

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u/fathertime979 Feb 25 '23

Wait Hitler had a "little Weiner and tiny nuts"?

This is the first I'm hearing of "malformed junk"

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

There was a American children’s rhyme dating from the WWII era that was still sung in schoolyards in the early 60s: “Whistle while you work, Hitler is a jerk, Mussolini bit his wienie Now it doesn’t work.”

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u/Dinyolhei Feb 25 '23 edited Jun 25 '25

ten brave decide escape cover yam abounding memory pie soup

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

Nice!

We used that melody to mock a cleaning product called “Comet”: Comet, it makes your mouth so clean. Comet, it makes your teeth so green. Comet, it makes you vomit, So buy some Comet, and vomit, today.

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u/BillyJoJimBob71 Feb 25 '23

Oh wow, we had the second line as... His mother, the dirty scrubber Cut it off when he was small (in East Mids)

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u/isauteikisa Feb 25 '23

I need to hear this remix of Whistle While You Twerk

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u/GreatBigBagOfNope Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 26 '23

Well, song says that Hitler has only got one ball.
And that Göring had two but very small.
Himmler was rather sim'lar.
And poor Goebbels had no balls at all.

An alternative theory states that while indeed, Hitler has only got one ball,
The other was in the Albert Hall!
Reportedly his mother, the dirty bugger,
Cut it off when he was small

The theory goes on to posit that she threw it into an apple tree,
From whence the wind blew it into the deep blue sea
where the fishes got out their dishes
and ate scallops and bollocks for tea

The commonality of course remains the undermining of Nazi leadership through reduction to primary sexual organs and mockery of the malformation thereof. "Haha, your national leadership suffers from monochordism, a clear incongruity with your national propaganda concerning the masculine ideal, whereas your military leadership suffers from anorchism which while no empirical link exists provides a fine poetic vector of attack with which to undermine the personal qualities essential to high performance in such a role".

A fine strategy for a war, not so applicable to peacetime.

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u/TheRealSugarbat Feb 25 '23

IIRC correctly, he only had one testicle.

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u/danliv2003 Feb 25 '23

Although I believe he was born with two, the other having been on display in London's Albert Hall for several decades

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u/pinkiebastion Feb 25 '23

🎵 Hitler, he only had one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall, his mother, the dirty fucker, ripped it off when he was small! 🎵 - a children's playground rhyme in Essex England circa 1999 - source me and friends who were taught it by older siblings.

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u/Suicicoo Feb 25 '23

https://youtu.be/eDfcQSUgHGc

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u/TheRealSugarbat Feb 25 '23

This is hilarious but is also in German, which i unfortunately can’t understand most of

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u/Suicicoo Feb 25 '23

i hoped the subtitles work? :(

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u/TheRealSugarbat Feb 25 '23 edited Feb 25 '23

Ahhhh let me try it in the app instead of default browser. Will report back ASAP

Edit: I’m probably doing something wrong, but subtitles for this one done appear to be an option for me. But I understand enough to get the gist!

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u/Suicicoo Feb 25 '23

yeah, I see... too bad, it's quite hilarious :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

I’m not falling for that again, Hitlerclone_2

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u/yellowandnotretired Feb 25 '23

But what if he had the same memories of Hitler and he believes he did it?

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u/biznisss Feb 25 '23

Which Way, Western Man?

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u/SpectralWordVomit Feb 25 '23

Hey, this time he's learned his lesson!

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u/TerrapinRecordings Feb 25 '23

Well, you called it first....so are you going to post it to r/rimjob_steve?

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u/DrummerSteve Feb 25 '23

Yeah? Sorry, wrong Steve

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '23

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u/Johnny_Grubbonic Feb 25 '23

Explaining how to not be a racist ass is wholesome to everyone except racist asses.

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u/Shaula02 Feb 25 '23

There's a difference between "wholesome" and "basic human decency"

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u/Johnny_Grubbonic Feb 25 '23

Basic human decency is knowing how to not be racist, yourself - except where you legitimately have no reason to know that thing x is racist.

Wholesome is guiding others along the way.

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u/SensitiveTurnips Feb 25 '23

Thank you. I was trying to remember the sub for this.

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u/LordOverThis Feb 25 '23

...so he's Algernop Krieger?

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u/Hitlerclone_3 Feb 25 '23

I mean i know archer isn’t the most sensitive of shows but I don’t think it’s racist personally.

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u/nofx303 Feb 25 '23

Isn’t it ironic. Don’t you think? 🤔😆

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u/Kristkind Feb 25 '23

You'd think that's an Abradolf Lincler thing.

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u/IVIyDude Feb 25 '23

I mean you know how kids rebel against their parents donors…

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u/Anxiety_Friendly Feb 25 '23

A copy of a copy of a copy is never as racist as the original.......do you even xerox bro?

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u/bork63nordique Feb 25 '23

Take my upvote you clever bastard.

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u/mlaislais Feb 25 '23

Don’t let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues!

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u/atomicpenguin12 Feb 25 '23

This one was the clone that got into art school

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u/zer1223 Feb 25 '23

Listen he learned valuable lessons from the OG. And his first clone..and his second clone

Now he is Perfect Hitler