Russian social network hosts ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant – IOTW Report

Russian social network hosts ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant

GELLER REPORT: This is one manifestation of the global norming of Jew-hatred. It isn’t just this Russian social network, but all over the Islamic world — in Egypt and Turkey, where Mein Kampf is a perennial bestseller, and in Indonesia, where there is a popular figure of Hitler in a wax museum — that Hitler is celebrated, and Jews are once again scapegoated and demonized. This does not bode well, any more than it did at any time in history.

“Russian social network hosts ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant,” Times of Israel, September 14, 2018 (thanks to Christian):

A page on a popular Russian social media network devoted to Adolf Hitler was suspended Thursday for hosting an online beauty pageant dubbed “Miss Hitler.”

The competition, hosted by the Adolf Hitler page on VKontakte (also known as VK), Europe’s largest social media network with half a billion users — a Russian equivalent of Facebook — drew contestants from Germany, Italy, Russia, and the US, Hadashot television news reported.

After the Israeli TV network contacted VKontakte, the company suspended the competition and issued a statement condemning hate speech.

The competition site was replaced with a page saying, “This community has been blocked due to calls to violence.” MORE

10 Comments on Russian social network hosts ‘Miss Hitler’ beauty pageant

  1. Frankly, I think we have to move away from all this “hate speech” silliness. There are perfectly good, existing laws for all the bad things possible in the world today.

    Rather than continuing to perpetuate this silly “hate crime” nonsense, we should start *advocating* for hate speech and, when the furor dies down, see if we can get back to some place near normal. ….Lady in Red

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