Condemnation after men dress as Nazis at Bangkok mall festive event

[dcnx]

4 minutes ago, Mark mark said:

Should lock them up in a Concentration Camp, ... and then see how funny that they think that is ! ...

Pol Pot was born in the wrong country. Perhaps if he wiped out 1/3 of the Thais they wouldn’t take things so lightly. But they don’t know who he is either and his atrocities happened next door.

[SupermarineS6B]

What do you expect ?....  Years ago i was laid in bed with one of my "University educated" sex kittens when on the tele came the face of uncle Adolf, i asked her who he was ?  she stared at the face on the tele for a while then stated that she'd seen him in soi 7 !  .......  Anyway intelligent conversation over, get back on the job darling...........  Moral of the story ........ "Know where you are, and know what you're dealing with"..........

[Rimmer]

Some more off topic removed

[sanemax]

2 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

What do you expect ?....  Years ago i was laid in bed with one of my "University educated" sex kittens when on the tele came the face of uncle Adolf, i asked her who he was ?  she stared at the face on the tele for a while then stated that she'd seen him in soi 7 !  .......  Anyway intelligent conversation over, get back on the job darling...........  Moral of the story ........ "Know where you are, and know what you're dealing with"..........

Was the point of your post to tell everyone that you were having sex with a woman, or did you want to tell us that she didnt recognise Hitler on television  ?

[Jaxxper]

History taught in Thai schools is Thai history. My daughter is on a school exchange for a year to the US, and guess what.....they only teach US history there.

I can understand how Thais don’t comprehend the significance of the holocaust to other nationalities. Not saying it’s right just saying I understand it.

[Mark mark]

1 minute ago, dcnx said:

Pol Pot was born in the wrong country. Perhaps if he wiped out 1/3 of the Thais they wouldn’t take things so lightly. But they don’t know who he is either and his atrocities happened next door.

I think that the Thais do know about Pol Pot, like from the stories from the Hundreds of Thousands of Refugees from his Regime, that came over the border in the late 70's and had to live here for several Years i think. .... Pol Pot went to School in Paris you Know ... a Good Old leftie Boy Right ??? ... (As well as Kunming in southern China) .. So he was not really much like the Nazies, other then liking to put his enemies like a large proportion of his Population in to Concentration Camps.

 

Like as a Good Khmre Motor cycle Taxi Rider actually stooped his Bike indignantly, .. to tell me once ..... Pol Pot was a "Maoist" !!!  ... and you got to say this with an expression that you know that you are talking about Murderers on you face here,  ... And he was Not a Nazi. ... (Or a Marxist Either, ... He was a "Maoist" ... ) 

[fred110]

The uniforms are German Army not nazis. 

[ExpatLife]

3 hours ago, Creasy said:

Geography and history, especially foreign is not a strong suit of the Thais 

What about Math, English, Science; and heck even Thai? 

[transam]

I think LOS in general has a soft spot for the Germans, Mr.Bean too.....

 

 

[NoBrainer]

Maybe they do it in support of the German Expat population.

 

There are still a lot about that (quietly) idolize the Fuhrer, and can't bear to

see what has now happened to their once great empire under the Left Wing Fanatics

that are currently in control.

[SupermarineS6B]

20 minutes ago, Mark mark said:

He looks Like a foreigner to me !!! ..No Thais would have a Sky Jump Nose Like that I think !!!

 

Merry Christmas to all.

Hey, he's family mate.......

[NoBrainer]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

I think LOS in general has a soft spot for the Germans, Mr.Bean too.....

 

 

 

Hogan's Heroes, translated to Thai, for Thai TV, would be a big hit for sure.

[SupermarineS6B]

16 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Was the point of your post to tell everyone that you were having sex with a woman, or did you want to tell us that she didnt recognise Hitler on television  ?

Go to the stores and order a sense of humour........

[DefaultName]

At what stage does history stop being offensive and start becoming just....... history?

Cold War - OK.

Nazi's - not yet.

American civil war - maybe.

Wars of the Roses - OK.

Scotland v England - OK unless there's a football match.

Crusaders - fine.

Romans v well, everybody really - OK.

 

I'm a Brit, so this is pretty much Brit oriented (+ some Hollywood), I'm sure other nationalities have their own examples.

 

For a lot of the world, these haven't got any significance at all, so is there really an issue here?

[keith101]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

In a statement posted on Facebook, Israel's Ambassador to Thailand, Dr. Meir Shlomo called the incident an “insult” to the victims of the Nazi regime.

Thailand had its own problems from the Japanese during the second world war so don't really care what happened in Europe .

[Fairynuff]

12 minutes ago, fred110 said:

The uniforms are German Army not nazis. 

In which reality were the German army not Nazis?

[transam]

2 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

In which reality were the German army not Nazis?

What ever was between the ears of a German soldier...

[SupermarineS6B]

2 hours ago, mngmn said:

It's not misunderstanding, is admiration. Strong, dictator who made Germany powerful for a while.

Yeah, real powerful........

[Letseng]

Israel is always quick to point fingers. Even about a kids prank like this one.

Their treatment of Palestinians is justified? 

[sanemax]

19 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Go to the stores and order a sense of humour........

What did I miss that was funny about your post ?

Do point out the joke that I missed 

[ParkerN]

3 hours ago, mickey rat said:

99.9% of the locals have no idea who Pol Pot was, much less Hitler. 

True. Another feature of the Thai education system. The higher-ups don't want Thais to know how much they've been exploited for decades (perhaps centuries), so most things outside Thailand are not reported. Thais are not good at geography or history.

 

The 2nd World War is also not reported, lest the population should discover that Thailand collaborated with the Japanese and found themselves on the wrong side, a diplomatic master stroke not. Indeed, GB wanted Thailand to pay war reparations but the USA vetoed that (it wanted to retain a secure footprint in SE Asia for itself). Something alse the world has to thank the USA for. Not.

 

So when Thais don SS or Army uniforms, they do so out of a lamentable ignorance, not a lamentable malice (although Buddhists tend to look down on other religions, and it isn't just in Thailand. The Israelis know all this of course, but it's one more reason to remind the world that they suffered the holocaust and that therefore the world owes them.

[Chazar]

18 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Yeah, real powerful........

Best economy  in Europe today

[Chazar]

24 minutes ago, Fairynuff said:

In which reality were the German army not Nazis?

I suspect many of them were NOT Nazis  just doing as they were  told  like obedient  little  Thais  do here............ choice do it or  die 

[Chazar]

26 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

At what stage does history stop being offensive and start becoming just....... history?

THANKS, already said that but obviously  too  offensive for some   people

[Gerald Smith]

Just recently noticed a storefront in central Pattaya with a swastika decal on their entry door! Needless to say I was quite shocked by such shocking ignorance and would never ever enter any store with such stupidity or hatred displayed publicly.

[alfalfa19]

4 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

I would love to know what these folks are thinking. They must have some understanding of who the Nazi's were. Their outfits and the posters and stuff they make, show there was research and knowledge involved. I just can't see what part of the Nazi story that is attractive to Thais. There has to be some kind of unspoken appreciation.

they probably aren't taught this stuff.  their history classes probably consist of the escapades of bare chested thai warriors on elephants. 

[nikmar]

lucky they didnt do the walk. ????

 

 

 

[Guderian]

Sort memories, whomever wrote that article forgot about this one:

 

[Spike1938]

4 hours ago, mike787 said:

I thought thailand respected free speech????

But does that include hate speech? You have every right to extend your arms out as far as they will go until they contact someone's nose. 

 

[kingstonkid]

4 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

I would love to know what these folks are thinking. They must have some understanding of who the Nazi's were. Their outfits and the posters and stuff they make, show there was research and knowledge involved. I just can't see what part of the Nazi story that is attractive to Thais. There has to be some kind of unspoken appreciation.

Too most Thais these are only costumes.  They have no idea about any wars except for memorizing dates.

Hell if you ask most Thais why kanchanburi is an important place and why so many Brits and Aussies go there they say the river and have no idea what happened.

 

I have 2 university students that are very knowledgeable but were never taught any of the history of Thaliana in WW2