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Originally Posted by jims69camaro
"RIP John 'Bonzo' Bonham" - yeah, i'm dating myself. whatever.
i can't speak for him, but i can offer a few thoughts about Arbeit Macht Frei. sometimes we are so quick to judge people that we often put them in the wrong category. i don't think one of you knows for sure what he meant by it, so you are jumping to conslusions. he could have meant it in brotherhood, or he could have had relatives there. then again, his ancestry could be in the SS, in which case i would STFU about it before they visit you in the night with a black bag, asking for your papers...
in any case, unless he comes in and explains himself, we don't know what he meant by the quote. so, take a step slower in time - you never know when you will be misjudged for your actions or words.
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I do not believe we were too quick to judge. I think it would have been in poor taste, regardless of how he meant it since it will be interpreted another way by many. That's all.
Think about it this way: What if I said "I'm going out to the woods to douse some faggots in gas and light them on fire". Actually I mean I'm going to take some bundles of sticks out to have a camp fire, but I bet a ton of people would read that the other way.
Bad taste regardless of intent. Not a burn on Matt at all.