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Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« on: July 23, 2014, 05:37:49 pm »
http://nypost.com/2014/07/21/smiling-auschwitz-selfie-sparks-twitter-outrage/

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A young woman on Twitter has received an overwhelming amount of backlash recently because of a cheerful selfie she took at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

“Selfie in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” wrote Breanna Mitchell, who tweeted the photo on June 20.

One month later, the picture, complete with smiley face emoticon in the caption, went viral and sparked outrage among Twitter users who made the photo a trending topic on Sunday.

“@PrincessBMM How can you be happy and smile in this pic? Do you not understand the horrors and murders that happened here? I’d be crying,” one Twitter user said in response to the selfie.

“The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Selfie. A new low in vanity,” another tweeted.

“@PrincessBMM @ianbhough Did you manage to take any of you laughing inside a gas chamber or maybe one with your head stuck in a cremator?” one user added.

Since Sunday, Mitchell’s original Auschwitz selfie has generated nearly 4,000 retweets and over 2,600 favorites, with many people actually defending Mitchell on the photo.

“Taking a smiling selfie at Auschwitz? Kinda disrespectful, even if unintended. Harassing teenager online because she did it? Not okay,” a user said.

“Y’all acting like the girl took a selfie with Hitler himself, chill,” another tweeted.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 05:43:36 pm »
You are aware this is a non-story right?

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 07:38:03 pm »
Sometimes I really hate my generation.

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 07:59:59 pm »
Sometimes I really hate my generation.

Yeah, those past generations were so much better! Them and their nice, family-friendly hatred of the gays and brown people and Asians and poor people and Jews and....
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2014, 09:10:54 pm »
Outrage theatre. "Oh look at me, I am very angry at this thing which affects literally nobody! I am a moral person and righteous is my anger!".

Someone did something, possibly in poor taste. Nobody cares. Nobody should care. Publicising this only feeds the self-sustaining outragefest of people wanting to prove themselves superior to others via moral sensibilities.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2014, 09:17:02 pm »
I think it's pretty well established at this point that people will take "selfies" pretty much anywhere.

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2014, 09:38:45 pm »
I've heard of weirdos taking selfies with dead bodies. There was some gal who was touring a morgue or something and decided to pose with a stiff. Needless to say, folks got miffed. :P

I can understand folk's anger but a simple reprimand would've sufficed, not an outrage campaign.

Now, if she was doing something really stupid in the Auschwitz photo, like mooning or something......

This kinda makes think of Justin Bieber's Anne Frank debacle.

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2014, 09:48:48 pm »
I've heard of weirdos taking selfies with dead bodies. There was some gal who was touring a morgue or something and decided to pose with a stiff. Needless to say, folks got miffed. :P

I can understand folk's anger but a simple reprimand would've sufficed, not an outrage campaign.

Now, if she was doing something really stupid in the Auschwitz photo, like mooning or something......

This kinda makes think of Justin Bieber's Anne Frank debacle.

Dude, I would totally take a selfie with a corpse if I could think of a good joke for it.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2014, 11:14:50 pm »
Outrage theatre. "Oh look at me, I am very angry at this thing which affects literally nobody! I am a moral person and righteous is my anger!".

Someone did something, possibly in poor taste. Nobody cares. Nobody should care. Publicising this only feeds the self-sustaining outragefest of people wanting to prove themselves superior to others via moral sensibilities.

Pretty much this.  It wasn't in the best taste, but the faux outrage is hilarious.  They're practically using their righteous anger to bully the poor girl. 

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2014, 09:22:11 am »
I've got to concede that this was in very poor taste, bordering on offensive.  Then again, my mama and daddy taught me fucking etiquette when I was a kid.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2014, 10:40:45 am »
A gentle admonishment is all this girl needed, not an outrage campaign.

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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2014, 01:59:09 pm »
Eeh, I think she just needs a good, long earful from her parents about offensively insensitive behaviour.  Anything above that is overkill.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2014, 05:19:44 pm »
Young people do thoughtless things.  I'm sure no disrespect was intended.   "Holier than thou" is almost a reflex reaction  nowadays. 
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2014, 07:11:34 pm »
Have some respect Breanna, my great grandfather died an Auschwitz.
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Re: Breanna Mitchell's Auschwitz Selfie
« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2014, 07:25:30 pm »
It's not that hard to sign up for one :P

As far as selfies, period, go, I find it hard to muster any hatred towards this particular fad.  It's just taking a picture of yourself with a certain style.  Far too much energy is wasted on hating it.  Might as well hate taking pictures, period.

As far as taking a selfie in Auschwitz goes... that is disrespectful, but the outrage more so.
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