[MisterTea]

> like the copy of Mein Kampf being in every copy of the source code

It was an over the top political gag in response to the original labs people inserting a copy of the gettysburg address in /lib. It was removed as the gag was lost on most people.

[smcl]

I guess whoever inserted it probably didn't quite anticipate the rise in neo-nazism and the far-right in recent years? Like before 2016 it's an edgy joke that'd make most people roll their eyes at worst if they know the context. Afterwards, and particularly after Charlottesville, regardless of the intent it does look like a very particular and sinister kind of statement.

[MisterTea]

The submitter was indeed very young and naive. The offending text was removed well before 2016.

[aliqot]

Unrelated to this topic, but tangential: I believe the first step in repeating history is to forget it happened. Being human is a continual process of error-driven development.

[smcl]

That moment may come in the future but I don’t think anyone in Europe or the USA is ignorant of what the Nazis did, and in fact the guys I mentioned (Charlottesville) seem to be pretty openly sympathetic towards nazi ideologies

[hulitu]

They are. Those things have become a tabu. There are some "official" naratives about this and that's all. In the end, only the nazis have something to win.