New York Times Magazine stelde haar lezers de aloude vraag: als je terug kon in de tijd zou je baby Hitler dan doden? Het blad publiceerde de resultaten online: 42 procent beantwoordde de vraag met ja. Daarna ging het op social media helemaal los. In no time was 'baby Hitler' trending op Twitter. Een greep uit de reacties: En de droge reactie van NYT Magazine:
We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) pic.twitter.com/daatm12NZC
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) 23 oktober 2015
What if Instead of killing Baby Hitler You rewrote the Treaty of Versailles Using the time machine you have Just a suggestion
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) 23 oktober 2015
*Opens Twitter* *Sees Baby Hitler trending* *Closes Twitter.* *Ponders into distance, wondering what happened to humanity*
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) 23 oktober 2015
The problem with going back in time and killing baby Hitler is you're also killing the person who killed Hitler
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) 23 oktober 2015
when you're making jokes about Baby Hitler but then you're coworker wants discuss her "theories" about the Holocaust pic.twitter.com/GOC39knx5b
— Erik Abriss (@AbrissErik) 23 oktober 2015
The most disturbing Google Image search results for "Baby Hitler" are... pic.twitter.com/FBXbM5ZDWV
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) 23 oktober 2015
When the @NYTmag asks you if you'd kill baby Hitler. pic.twitter.com/kp4KeP5hRi
— Andrew Husband (@AndrewHusband) 23 oktober 2015
@NYTmag If your ex Adele called, would you answer?
— Kevin O'Leary (@kevincarroleary) 23 oktober 2015
@NYTmag @tmagazine Id rather kill baby Bismack - no WWI, WWII or communism - but id also gladly kill baby Hitler
— Jacob Wolinsky (@JacobWolinsky) 23 oktober 2015
Why is it always "kill the baby Hitler" and not "find him as a young man, tell him his art is really good, he should stick with it"
— Matthew S. Burns (@mrwasteland) 23 oktober 2015
@NYTmag If you were the moon would you explore yourself
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) 23 oktober 2015
@pattymo what would you rather kill, one Hitler-sized baby Hitler or 10 baby-Hitler-sized Hitlers
— Ryan Bacic (@RyanBacic) 23 oktober 2015
@NYTmag if you were a hotline, would you bling?
— Margarita Noriega (@margarita) 23 oktober 2015
lol
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) 23 oktober 2015
Bron(nen): The Independent