June 6, 2018 12:25 PM
Cong. Ferguson Inadvertently Honors Nazi “Heroes”
In a since-deleted tweet, Congressman Ferguson’s social media team screwed up royally. (And likely lost at least one team member).
Those are Nazi soldiers in Congressman @RepDrewFerguson's #DDay tweet. #GA03 https://t.co/fr8aU5M0OL pic.twitter.com/0ocnn97j66
— Shripal Shah (@shripal734) June 6, 2018
What’s also an indictment on the good congressman’s office is that in five-and-a-half hours since the tweet was published, they haven’t managed to figure out how to design a new photo.
Oops.
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Freudian slip.
We’ve always been at war with South Korea.
Those are the guys that bombed Pearl Harbor.
+1
Did you hear that Canada burned down the white house?
I thought it was the Waffle House.
My guess is it was a millennial. Anyone over 50 would readily recognize the helmets as German, WWII being fodder for a multitude of motion pictures being made into the 1970’s, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in and Hogan’s Heroes on TV.
With you that some in GenX never fully engaged in the digital world, but I don’t get the cultural ignorance part. Now, if you’re saying that someone in GenX might say somethin like “I just don’t give a F*”, I might go along with it, but that’s counter-cultural not ignorant. Regardless of age, if the graphic isn’t replaced, it’s really more about the Congressman’s office not giving…
any importance to the meaning of their words.