Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.”
dukemirage@lemmy.world 16 hours agoFührer is not just „leader“, it is tainted and using it as a substitute for Hitler in a factual text is super weird, like casually calling Jesus in his Wikipedia article „our lord and savior“ now and then.
Yeah I fully agree with this. I am thick in the middle of “Third Reich Trilogy” which gives an enormous amount of context to the word though.
If they changed it, it’s further evidence of scummy behaviour, but on its own it’s not a huge red flag for me with historical context.
Can’t recommend the books enough if you’re into that. The lad must have spent half his life in primary sources.
Is there another more ‘generic’ German term that would fit when talking about this period of time in retrospect? So you could have one line that says the German equivalent of ‘he was the leader in Germany during this time period, commonly referred to by the title Fuhrer’, and then no need to keep using “Fuhrer” anymore in the rest of the article.
Pretty sure its usually “Diktator” in that context.
Maybe Staatsoberhaupt
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Thank you for this comparison. That’s a fun one and one that’s made a little more ‘subtle’ in the US if only because of how common that language is among the populace in regions and how pervasive protestantism is in advertising/messaging.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Jesus would’ve hated America. I think according to the bible he lost his shit twice - both because of capitalism.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 12 hours ago
There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn’t like its fruit