Hitler Rants Parodies Posted February 2, 2015 Member ID: 1 Group: Administrator Followers: 5 Topic Count: 2,463 Topics Per Day: 0.57 Content Count: 6,136 Content Per Day: 1.42 Reputation: 172 Days Won: 138 Joined: 12/20/2013 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 08:06 PM Birthday: 05/08/1986 Device: Windows Report Posted February 2, 2015 A Galveston city councilman said Thursday he intended no offense when he used a movie scene depicting a tirade by Adolf Hitler to parody the city's slow-moving bureaucracy, but neither will he apologize."No, I have nothing to apologize for," Councilman Norman Pappous said of the five-minute video he showed at the end of a council workshop Wednesday on rewriting the city's land-use rules. Pappous added subtitles in English over a segment from a 2004 German movie titled "Downfall," in which Hitler rants in German. The subtitles lampoon the planning process as well as several council members, including Pappous himself. The video was broadcast on the municipal cable television channel and on a live video stream of the meeting. After a barrage of complaints, the video was erased from the city website. It remained on the councilman's Facebook page Thursday evening. Council members said that several callers complained that the video was insensitive because it was shown publicly the day after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, an infamous Nazi death camp where thousands of Jews, Gypsies and other minorities were put to death as part of Hitler's extermination program. "I thought it was pathetic and I thought it was offensive to anyone who lost family during the Holocaust," said former Galveston Mayor Lewis Rosen, who is Jewish. 'Spoof' slammed Mayor Jim Yarbrough said he would apologize at the next council meeting for allowing the video to be shown in its entirety. "I truly believe it was just a spoof and a parody on our (planning) process and our City Council," Yarbrough said. "But pictures of Hitler and his inner circle group is something that shouldn't have continued." Pappous, a businessman elected in 2012, maintains he did nothing more than thousands of others who have used an Internet program allowing the creation of YouTube videos based on the same movie scenes. "The reaction by the people who are offended by what I did is way over the top when you look at the context and that this has been shown thousands of times," he said. Pappous said he's not anti-Semitic and that his father in fact witnessed Nazi atrocities when living in occupied Greece during World War II. Pappous said he wasn't likening anyone to Hitler. Other council members agreed with the mayor that the video should not have been shown at a public meeting. "He was doing it in jest, to have fun, but it is a video that should not have been aired at our council on TV," said Councilwoman Terrilyn Tarlton, who was mentioned in the video. Blamed on enemies Councilman Craig Brown said that the video "was a surprise to council when it was shown." "It was offensive and it was inappropriate," he said, adding that irate callers wanted to know why the video was shown. "They felt that it was the use of a time in history that was so devastating to humanity and the actions of that group was so offensive and horrific," Brown said. The movie has been the inspiration for years of so-called "Downfall parodies," and an Internet tool allows users to "Make your own Hitler video." A web page devoted to the videos shows the actor who played Hitler purporting to rant about everything from entertainer Justin Bieber to baked beans. In at least one case, the use of a "Downfall parody" against a political opponent backfired. In 2012, a British Member of Parliament resigned as the Labour party's new media advisor after producing a spoof comparing Hitler's final days with a Scottish politician's moves regarding the referendum on Scottish independence. In fact, Pappous believes the entire controversy over the video was concocted by his political enemies. "The only people who don't want to show it are people who spend their life figuring out how to stab me in the back," he said. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Galveston-councilman-says-he-meant-no-offense-6049635.php Probably not wise to make a rant for work related things. xD Quote
CanaDolfy98 Posted February 2, 2015 Member ID: 329 Group: Parody Creator Followers: 0 Topic Count: 21 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 603 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 11 Days Won: 9 Joined: 07/07/2014 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 14, 2017 Birthday: 03/27/1998 Report Posted February 2, 2015 But it could be good for school-related things Quote
Hitler Rants Parodies Posted February 3, 2015 Member ID: 1 Group: Administrator Followers: 5 Topic Count: 2,463 Topics Per Day: 0.57 Content Count: 6,136 Content Per Day: 1.42 Reputation: 172 Days Won: 138 Joined: 12/20/2013 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 08:06 PM Birthday: 05/08/1986 Device: Windows Author Report Posted February 3, 2015 Someone here did a school-related rant and got in trouble. xD Quote
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