• Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    If you have no idea who somebody really is, why would you want to take a photo with them? I suppose asking one staffer to maybe vet them before they are commemorated is asking too much?

    The proper response is outrage that a nazi was invited to be honoured. Especially as a descendent of Holocaust survivors, the correct reaction is to be livid. Not upset that people are "politicizing an issue".

    • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Not even a staffer to vet them. Either Zelensky or Rota introduced the Nazi as having "fought against Russia for Ukrainian independence, during WW2".

      Everyone should immediately understand what this means, and especially a Holocaust survivor descendant.

      • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Everything I’m seeing is saying Rota was the one to invite the guy, or at the very least his staffers. The Nazi lives in his riding.

        • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          I wasn't sure who had said the above quote during the presentation. The fact still stands that people should at least be aware what that quote means, and makes some PM comments afterwards, defending Rota and the Nazi or trying to run damage control, despicable.