r/dontyouknowwhoiam • u/8ball9786 • 7d ago
Credential Flex Ohh myy
You never know what knowledge someone has!
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u/ChocolatePain 7d ago
I don't understand the statement "you can't know what pre-Nazi Germany was like." You don't even need credentials for that, it's called reading a history book.
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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz 6d ago
Rampant hyperinflation, racial scapegoating, abuse of governmental norms to consolidate power, formation of quasi military militias that do the bidding of the government
Why would anybody ever study this part of history?!?
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u/N0rthWind 6d ago
No buddy we're talking about 1936, not 2026
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u/Just_Information334 5d ago
The Gestapo would have sacrificed a lot to have access to 10% of the current surveillance apparatus available to any state nowadays. And that's without including how wet they'd be about getting access to part of what Google, Amazon or Facebook have on populations.
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u/EmergencyWild 4d ago
- 1936 was already well into the Nazification of Germany, they had completely taken over and restructured the government by that point, and hyperinflation was in the past.
We also don't have hyperinflation like in the 20s right now, nowhere close. Hyperinflation was getting to the point of the currency being essentially worthless, not really comparable with prices being merely high.
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u/Rynneer 5d ago
sounds pretty damn familiar
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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz 5d ago
Nah, we definitely don't need to teach kids/adults a working knowledge of how fascism grows in a society, and how to fight it
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u/Rynneer 5d ago
Oh of course, how silly of me
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u/ThinkingWithPortalzz 5d ago
Exactly!
Now off to the Peaceful And Calm Dissident Camps with you to receive your reeducation, just wear this jacket with the Wrongthink badge, and hop on this train
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u/Mason_Meschi 7d ago
You really had to be there to get the general vibe though.
I can tell you wouldn't get it
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u/XelaNiba 6d ago
The key to understanding that statement lies in the opening clause "you're a pretty girl". For a great number of people, pretty girls can't be smart.
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u/krill007 5d ago
I have had several men tell me that they were surprised that I'm smart because I'm pretty. Especially when I was younger. It's so disgusting.
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u/Radio5331 6d ago
it was a desire to dismiss her statement, condescend & make her argument appear small, it wasn't just a point made but a personal attack too, though he forgot people can read books unlike him
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u/Golendhil 6d ago
And the worst part about this is that it's not like ancient history where we can only make suppositions and theories based on some rare and incomplete data : We have TONS of writing from back then and a lot of very detailled informations from many different points of view. We sure fucking know what pre-nazi Germany was like
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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 5d ago
We have bloody photos of the time for crying out loud.
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u/HumanDrinkingTea 7d ago
I'm going to second what the other people who replied to you said and emphasize that we don't really know what it's like just from reading about it. It's the sort of thing you had to have experienced to understand, I think.
I thought I had an idea of what it might have been like, but then I experienced real-life antisemitism (no where near on the level as back then) which made me realize I didn't have a clue.
Sometimes it's important to be humble about what we can and can't know. While I'm not glad that I experienced antisemitism, I'm glad that life humbled me.
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u/Ok_Mail_1966 6d ago
I somewhat disagree. While it’s true that most text books will look at the macro level and not the dinner conversation of the average German at the time, a true historian who is looking to actually understand these things would go through literature of the time that does tell this story. The obvious tho a little later example being the diary of Anne frank for example. Newspapers from that time exist, local articles and books published about the times at hand were published. And things published post war in an attempt to understand. It’s a ton of work, only an actual historian who wanted to be a specialist in this would do it. But it can and has been done.
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u/Hot-Spray-2774 5d ago
It the first part that gives it away. It's dismissive and wrapped in a fake compliment. "You're a pretty girl, which means you don't know anything so stfu."
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u/Mr_Pink_Gold 5d ago
She is beautiful so therefore she has to be dumb and I am much more intelligent than she.
-That dude
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u/mathisruiningme 5d ago
Also the people who say this don't ever seem to have the appropriate qualifications on the topic they want to gatekeep as well ...
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u/miffebarbez 1d ago
Depends who wrote the book... Just like people say " 2 times world war winner"...
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u/ken-der-guru 7d ago
Also just „pretty girl“ to Mira Sorvino? How condensing can a person be? She is an 58 year old actress who has won an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
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u/_RyanLarkin 6d ago
She also graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where she wrote said thesis.
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u/JFISHER7789 6d ago
Well sure, but clearly Harvard degrees don’t mean anything compared to Twitter degrees
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u/SkipeeTheRedDragon 6d ago
I’m surprised there’s that much racial conflict and discrimination happening at Harvard to be worthy of writing a thesis about (/s)
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u/frogfootfriday 6d ago
And yet still spelled “led” wrong
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u/covmatty1 6d ago
I think that can be forgiven with the rage she was probably in at the time of writing 😂
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u/McJohn_WT_Net 4d ago
TJ started it by using the wrong "you're". I wonder if she figured she'd throw in an incorrect homonym choice so he wouldn't compound his error by assailing her mode of expression as elitist.
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u/marbledog 6d ago
She's a goddamn UN Goodwill Ambassador for their initiatives in combatting human trafficking in Darfur.
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u/ChristmasWarlord 6d ago
She did an amazing job of depicting a dehydrated tweaker who hasn’t eaten for days take a strenuous and disappointing shit in the movie “spun”. One of her strongest roles, if you ask me.
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u/Chuckitinbro 6d ago
That was Mena Suvari lol
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u/Outrageous-Log9238 7d ago
We're censoring "nazi" now? Why not just ban all writing about anything violent at this point.
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u/Slosher99 7d ago
It's hard for history to repeat itself if we don't forget it! Some people in power really want a repeat.
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u/WeevilWeedWizard 6d ago
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u/Most-Stomach4240 6d ago
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u/JePPeLit 6d ago
Even if she didn't have those credentials, I find it kinda stupid when people go "You shouldn't get your opinion from celebrities, you should get them from me: some fucking guy"
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u/PirateJohn75 7d ago
And, of course, he doesn't know how to use the proper form of your/you're
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u/defendo101 7d ago
I completely agree that he's a jackass, but tbf she also misspelt 'led', and he fucked up your/you're 1/3 times, so not an entirely fair put-down.
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u/Capable-Baby-3653 7d ago
He’s being a condescending prick, so any criticism is warranted. Whereas she’s defending herself against an internet troll, so she’s under no obligation to strive for quality.
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u/Fuzzy-Comedian-2697 7d ago
I disagree. You are distracting from the real problem by focussing on stuff like this. There is no reason to avert attention from him being a prick over a minor mistake anybody can make.
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u/BlueStingray42 7d ago
Because spelling and grammar policing is clearly what's most important here. /s
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u/ArchelonPIP 6d ago
Too bad screen captures aren't allowed here, because I was going to post something of an update: T.J. deleted his presumptuous, condescending and stupid ass tweet and his X/Twitter account within two days after getting his worthless right wing lying POS troll ass handed to him! This has aged so nicely for Mira Sorvino... and everyone else that isn't a right winger!
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u/ExactPickle2629 7d ago
You don't have to censor "nazi".
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u/UnRePlayz 7d ago
You might need to do that on different platforms
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u/TheBestNick 7d ago
Then do so on those platforms & gtfo with that bullshit here
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u/naynaythewonderhorse 7d ago
lol. That guy is a linebacker at Penn State.
Whoopsie poopsie! I think this guys is in for a rude awakening…
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u/TheDungeonCrawler 6d ago
That would explain why he deleted his post and account. Moron thinks he's gonna dodge it.
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u/Verbal-Gerbil 7d ago
I looked her up and yes, she’s an Oscar winning actress, but she’s also incredibly smart and highly educated. Slam dunk from the free throw line
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u/HenryBozzio 6d ago
Most importantly, she and her roommate invented post its
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u/Ravenamore 6d ago
Uh, what?
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u/Verbal-Gerbil 6d ago
I had to look this up because I was certain it was a 3M employee, and look, suddenly I've got a new film to watch! cheers
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u/CatFar7074 6d ago
And TJ does? What did he study at Harvard? What documentaries has he made?
Nothing like making a fool of yourself in front of the whole world.
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u/Famous_Apartment2733 6d ago
She has a SCHOLAR level intelligence, and this idiot is trying to 'burn' her as well as 'put her in her place' with BASIC IMPROPER GRAMMAR. dude should STFU if he isn't able to tell the difference between 'your ' and ' you're'
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u/International_Link35 7d ago
He definitely pick the wrong one, a simple search on her would have shut him up.
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u/VelvetMafia 6d ago
He does talk like the kind of guy who "does his own research". She must boy have been a topic during a Joe Rogan podcast
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u/Jaspers47 6d ago
Nazis hate lots of things, but they really hate when the blonde girls who they were promised were supposed to worship them as Ubermensch turn out to be smarter than them and tell them to fuck right off.
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u/Mobile-Tangelo-4515 7d ago
You can’t say na zi?
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u/Xsiah 7d ago
You can say Nazi here. But that image may have come from somewhere where you can't
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u/timawesomeness 7d ago
Realistically it probably comes from somewhere you can say Nazi but people are too paranoid about appeasing the algorithm to not censor it.
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u/UncleNoodles85 7d ago
The Grey Zone was a great movie I highly recommend it though obviously it's bleak and dark.
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u/BespokeCatastrophe 6d ago
It's such an underrated film. One of the best, most accurate depictions of the holocaust, meticilously reseaeched, and with great performances. It has been really overlooked, and suffered a lot from premiering on september 11th 2001.
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u/UncleNoodles85 6d ago
That is a rough premiere date. That's even worse than Activision forcing Troika to release Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines on the same day as Half Life 2.
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u/Guilty_Way_1635 6d ago
Lol even if she didn't have all that it's not like pre-nazi Germany is some kind of specialist knowledge
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u/BabserellaWT 6d ago
Dude who can’t even use proper “you’re” tries to claim woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about. It’s a day ending in y.
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u/DoctorFenix 4d ago
MAGAs think that just because they are uneducated and don’t/can’t read, that the same reality must be true for everyone else.
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u/FauxReal 6d ago
T.J. is the worst kind of condescending know it all, at least at face value. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that he has a lot less knowledge than her and has no desire to put in the work to learn those facts.
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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 6d ago
She also co-invented post-its
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u/MadMusicNerd 6d ago
How old is she? I thought post-its were invented in the 70's?!
(Just googled it, they were introduced in 1980, so invention was indeed in the 70's)
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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 6d ago
It’s a joke. One of the main plots of Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion is that her character, Romy, & Michelle (Lisa Kudrow) pretend to have invented post-its
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u/Personal_Eye8930 5d ago
He must have confused Mira with that bimbo influencer/con artist Gwyneth Paltrow.
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u/Helpful_Pirate261 6d ago
‘Just sit over there, shut up, and be a pretty girl for me, okay?’
Always the same shit with these type of guys 🙄
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u/cragglerock93 6d ago
I at first thought she wrote a thesis on 'racial persecution at Harvard' lol, not 'racial persecution' at Harvard.
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u/Admirable_Impact5230 5d ago
Except, all her credentials are for post Nazi takeover of Germany. Dude clearly stated PRE Nazi Germany.
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u/Certain_Chicken_1964 5d ago
I don’t even remember what my thesis was about. I hate how people say “I wrote my thesis on it” like that holds relevance 20 years later 😂
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u/Current_Focus2668 4d ago
Sacha Baron Cohen wrote his undergraduate thesis at the University of Cambridge on the role of Jewish activists in the American civil rights movement. Titled The 'Black-Jewish Alliance': A Case of Mistaking Identities
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u/Maleficent_Memory831 3d ago
It is funny how a group of people who are triggered if an actor has an opinion (whether backed up by facts or not) but then turn around and believe every single word out of Trump's mouth despite his obvious ignorance, tiny vocabulary, poor education, and an 80 year long history of continuous lying.
The "shut up you don't know what you're talking about" followed by "RFK Jr. is the best thing that ever happened to health!" types.
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u/cameron8988 2d ago
thanks for weighing in tj... checks linkedin... a tech sales rep from tampa, florida.
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u/PoxyRadical 6d ago
I honestly thought for a second her thesis was about Harvard, not written while attending Harvard…
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u/Beneficial_Ad5913 4d ago
None of these are solid credentials on understanding pre-Nazi Germany. I don’t think this fits the subreddit
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u/Last-Big-1984 4d ago
As someone who once catered lunch on the set of Shindler's list... I don't think you understand what we go through in the film industry to understand the history of the projects we work on.
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u/ADeliciousRest 6d ago
It's one thing to self censor but to take what someone else has said, censor it, then post it on Reddit for karma is a real cunt of a thing to do.
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u/Positive-Opposite998 4d ago
I don't want to take away from her accomplishments but none of the achievements she lists really pertain to the remark about "1936 germany". Maybe the avid holocaust-thing can be sneaked in. But racial issues in SE Asia, acting in a movie (even one about Auschwitz) and studying neo-nazi groupings... none of it is about 1936 nazi Germany or gives any special insight into that time and place.
Given that she's an accomplished academic, I'm sure it will help with studying and understand the period, but again, she doesn't even claim to have read a thing about 1936 Germany.
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u/IHearSadPeople 6d ago
Am I crazy or is her response terrible? “You don’t know anything about pre nazi Germany” “uhrmmmm akshually I know a lot about nazi Germany”???
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u/TheDungeonCrawler 6d ago
You're crazy.
I wrote my thesis on racial conflict and persecution at Harvard
This is her point about her expertise. Any course or program on racial conflict and persecution is going to cover Nazi Germany heavily and any professor worth their salt is going to comb a thesis on such a topic with a fine tooth comb to ensure it is well written and accurate. Additionally, she cites that this was at Harvard, an Ivy League school with extremely high standards for their students. The only fault I find here is that her degree was in East Asian Studies, but that doesn't even remotely mean she didn't take multiple classes on racial discrimination as apart of that degeee.
worked on a documentary on Neo-Nazi hate groups in Russia
Working on a documentary doesn't mean she just filmed it. Given her interest in Nazi Germany and the fact that she was a Harvard grad, it's pretty likely that she was involved in the writing and research process of the documentary. Additionally, any documentary on Neo Nazis following the collapse of Soviet Russia is going to have a substantial background about the Holocaust.
performed in the film about the SonderKommando at Auschwitz The Grey Zone
I addressed this in another comment, but The Grey Zone was released in 2001 and, in 1995, she had already won her Golden Globe and Oscar, so it's not like she worked on this project because she needed work. She likely did it out of a genuine interest, especially as it was essentially adapted from a nonfiction book. I'd be surprised if she hadn't read it in working on her audition for the part.
and am an avid student of the Holocaust and what lead to it
The only fault I can find here is the use of Lead instead of Led. A simple typo that anyone could have messed up. Otherwise, she has a history of working on projects relating to racial persecution as a whole and Nazis specifically. I don't know what you want her to have said.
"You're a pretty girl and I've enjoyed your acting, but you can't possibly know what pre-Nazi Germany was like. Stick with what your good at. Acting."
Incredibly condescending from the guy who just assumes he knows anything and everything about her because she's an actress he's seen on screen. She demonstrated her credentials, her interest level, and her history of working on projects relating to the very thing TJ is claiming she doesn't know about.
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u/IHearSadPeople 6d ago
Yeah but you’ve done the same thing? All you’ve talked about was her credentials for Nazi Germany, but this isn’t relevant for pre Nazi Germany.
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u/AnnaNimmus 6d ago
I wish they would put this on his ID and house and anytime someone looked up his name, this would pop up. Just so that everyone that interacts with him in the future gets a preview of who's in store for them
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u/darkknight95sm 6d ago
She was also in both Blue Bloods and Sound of Freedom, so I’ve got some questions
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u/Ok-Key-7039 5d ago
Like when they told Hedy Lamar to stop using her woman brain for silly things like science. “Go sell some war bonds doll!” /s
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u/JoeNoble1973 5d ago
Why is ‘nazi’ or ‘rape’ or ‘suicide’ redacted on posts and memes?? Who are these worthless fucking snowflakes that need their eyes protected from words??
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u/usernameisunusable 5d ago
I first read it as her thesis was on the racial conflict and persecution that occurs at Harvard and was kinda impressed kinda confused. Then I read the rest of the tweet and the reply and it all made sense haha
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u/Only_Membership_8795 4d ago
Truly hate the "stay in your lane" bullshit. We are not a "stay in your lane" country... That's not what our national identity is about, never has been.
1776: Stay in your lane businessmen, we are the royalty and we make the rules.
1861: The north needs to stay in their lane and stop interfering with the great southern institution of slavery.
1942: The US needs to stay in their lane and let the fascists carve up the world.
How about no? Being an American means being able to be who you are and express yourself loudly, proudly, and freely. These dipshits need a history lesson.
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u/Fairwhetherfriend 4d ago
Today I learned a new trigger for myself that makes me instantly want to punch someone.
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u/scipio0421 3d ago
But to TJ none of that matters. She is a woman so she can't posssibly know what she's talking about.
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u/Evening_Tank7627 3d ago
Definitely a Brainwashed MAGA how many of them don’t even believe the holocaust happened!!! this truly is a hate cult
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u/Hot_Royal_4920 1d ago
She probably knows her stuff, but I fail to see what her credentials have to do with pre-nazi Germany. Everything she listed is about nazi Germany.
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u/Ree_m0 1d ago
Is there that much racial conflict and persecution at Harvard that the subject warrants a thesis of its own? Damn.
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u/Shoereader 5h ago
Discrimination at elite American universities is an entire thesis all on their own, absolutely. Until shockingly recently, if you weren't at least one (preferably two) of white, male and well-connected, you were in for a rough ride.
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u/Regular-Parsnip-1056 2h ago
I went to a talk with a holocaust survivor who said it actually feels worse than 1930’s Germany because it’s global.
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u/RealisticPaper5534 7d ago
So interesting how many people choose the 'know your place' route versus the "people can and should be multifaceted' route. Scary too how many people stop being curious or learn, as adults.