The Daily Mail channels it's inner-Nazi

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Daily Mail deletes 'Arbeit Macht Frei' advice to unemployed graduates

The Daily Mail has been embarrassed into deleting an offensive paragraph from an online contribution to its website.

A piece headlined Why our new legions of unemployed graduates need to adjust their expectations, by Dominique Jackson, contained this extraordinary paragraph:

"The German slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei' is somewhat tainted by its connection with Nazi concentration camps, but its essential message, 'work sets you free' still has something serious to commend it.

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One of them, gloworm, glos, wrote: "Somewhat tainted? By the deaths of considerably more than a million men, women and children? I understand the point you are making, but to write off a phrase like 'Arbeit Macht Frei' as somewhat tainted demonstrates such a complete lack of feeling for context that... Christ, words fail me."

link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/aug/13/dailymail-twitter

[No Elephants]

1. "Somewhat tainted by its connection to Nazi" death camps like Auschwitz?

Somewhat?

That was my reaction before I even finished reading the OP. Then I saw that I was not alone.


That said, the single thing graduating students need to be set free from is lack of opportunity.

And good old Newt Gingrich thinks elementary school kids whose parents are poor should clean school bathrooms.

Seriously, how low can the greedy 1% go in this life and death limbo dance? Is anything lower than Auschwitz/