The Music N***
iTunes replacement for parties
Version: 1.7
What's In a Name?
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Mr Tea Friday, June 16 2006 @ 04:04 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
This is a nifty piece of software, a fact that is becoming obscured by all the knee-jerk reactions to its humorously descriptive name. Perhaps Americans have a different relationship with the word Nazi to British folk. Over here, we don't automatically assume that using the word indicates approval of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist party's policies against Jewish and other non-aryan peoples. (Similarly, we don't automatically associate the word 'Jew' with the murder, oppression and forced relocation of Palestinians.)
It is, after all, more than sixty years since Hitler and his armies were defeated. The word has subsequently become dissociated from its original form as an abbreviation of 'National Socialist' and now simply means someone with prejudiced and inflexible opinions that they want to impose on everybody else - hardly an endorsement of the original users. Why give the word power and status by getting all screwed up about it? There are far more serious, contemporary and relevant issues to get your knickers in a twist about.
Around 1500 years before Adolf started doing his thing, another bunch of war-mongering Germanic Aryans called 'Vandals' were making themselves unpopular in mainland Europe and North Africa. They too were defeated, and no-one seems unduly disturbed by the fact that the word 'vandal' now means someone mindlessly destructive. Surely we don't need to wait another 15 centuries before we are free to use 'nazi' as a derogatory term without bringing a bunch of hysterical, hand-wringing fools out of the woodwork.
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thoughts on a name... - cthoepner
hello mr/ms developer...I like the suggestion below that this have a name which includes the word 'jukebox' or 'nickelodeon' -- it actually took me a minute to figure out what it was designed to do. I also agree that some folks might be alienated by the Nazi thing...
Just a brief comment on the note below... it's true that WWII has been over for awhile, but the (convenient) human construct of chronology does not erase its psychological impact in the US, UK or anywhere. There are many folks who were interred in concentration camps who are still alive today; their children and grandchildren also feel keenly these memories. What's more, research has shown that maladaptive coping mechanisms may be inherited by the children of former victims (children of victims behave differently from escapees on some measures), so basically the Nazi regime is still alive and, er, well.
"History repeats itself", so we must "never forget". I'm not Jewish, BTW, but 600 or so folks w/ my surname (and similar) died in the Shoa. We're all connected to the "past" in one form or another.
Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 10:25 AM PDT
thoughts on a name... - cthoepner
hello mr/ms developer...I like the suggestion below that this have a name which includes the word 'jukebox' or 'nickelodeon' -- it actually took me a minute to figure out what it was designed to do. I also agree that some folks might be alienated by the Nazi thing...
Just a brief comment on the note below... it's true that WWII has been over for awhile, but the (convenient) human construct of chronology does not erase its psychological impact in the US, UK or anywhere. There are many folks who were interred in concentration camps who are still alive today; their children and grandchildren also feel keenly these memories. What's more, research has shown that maladaptive coping mechanisms may be inherited by the children of former victims (children of victims behave differently from escapees on some measures), so basically the Nazi regime is still alive and, er, well.
"History repeats itself", so we must "never forget". I'm not Jewish, BTW, but 600 or so folks w/ my surname (and similar) died in the Shoa. We're all connected to the "past" in one form or another.
Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 10:32 AM PDT
stuff that's in a name... - cthoepner
hello mr/ms developer...I like the suggestion below that this have a name which includes the word 'jukebox' or 'nickelodeon' -- it actually took me a minute to figure out what it was designed to do. I also agree that some folks might be alienated by the Nazi thing...
Just a brief comment on the note below... it's true that WWII has been over for awhile, but the (convenient) human construct of chronology does not erase its psychological impact in the US, UK or anywhere. There are many folks who were interred in concentration camps who are still alive today; their children and grandchildren also feel keenly these memories. What's more, research has shown that maladaptive coping mechanisms may be inherited by the children of former victims (children of victims behave differently from escapees on some measures), so basically the Nazi regime is still alive and, er, well.
"History repeats itself", so we must "never forget". I'm not Jewish, BTW, but 600 or so folks w/ my surname (and similar) died in the Shoa. We're all connected to the "past" in one form or another.
Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 10:39 AM PDT
stuff that's in a name... - cthoepner
hello mr/ms developer...I like the suggestion below that this have a name which includes the word 'jukebox' or 'nickelodeon' -- it actually took me a minute to figure out what it was designed to do. I also agree that some folks might be alienated by the Nazi thing...
Just a brief comment on the note below... it's true that WWII has been over for awhile, but the (convenient) human construct of chronology does not erase its psychological impact in the US, UK or anywhere. There are many folks who were interred in concentration camps who are still alive today; their children and grandchildren also feel keenly these memories. What's more, research has shown that maladaptive coping mechanisms may be inherited by the children of former victims (children of victims behave differently from escapees on some measures), so basically the Nazi regime is still alive and, er, well.
"History repeats itself", so we must "never forget". I'm not Jewish, BTW, but 600 or so folks w/ my surname (and similar) died in the Shoa. We're all connected to the "past" in one form or another.
Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 10:44 AM PDT
stuff that's in a name... - cthoepner
hello mr/ms developer...I like the suggestion below that this have a name which includes the word 'jukebox' or 'nickelodeon' -- it actually took me a minute to figure out what it was designed to do. I also agree that some folks might be alienated by the Nazi thing...
Just a brief comment on the note below... it's true that WWII has been over for awhile, but the (convenient) human construct of chronology does not erase its psychological impact in the US, UK or anywhere. There are many folks who were interred in concentration camps who are still alive today; their children and grandchildren also feel keenly these memories. What's more, research has shown that maladaptive coping mechanisms may be inherited by the children of former victims (children of victims behave differently from escapees on some measures), so basically the Nazi regime is still alive and, er, well.
"History repeats itself", so we must "never forget". I'm not Jewish, BTW, but 600 or so folks w/ my surname (and similar) died in the Shoa. We're all connected to the "past" in one form or another.
Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 11:38 AM PDT
What's In a Name? - johnatl_dotmac
Excellent post Mr Tea!People can just think of it as The Soup Nazi for music.
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