Gothamist: Dummkopf

Ramble

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:18:55 -0500

"The Bronx has never been a fashionable place to live" Not true -- it may be a while, but the Concourse used to be quite the address in its day.

Vince

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:27:27 -0500

what the instructor said and did is a damn shame and should not be underestimated, no doubt! but comments like "nothing changes" are simply ignorant and stupid. i mean even your name is Sean... remember Sean Bell...? so i guess nothing changes in the USA neither huh?... wow thats easy! i am half Black half White, lived in Germany for 5 years and loved it out there...

Sean

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:51:28 -0500

F*&kin' Germans. Nothing changes.

Ed

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:36:13 -0500

Most non-New Yorker's images of the city come from movies, and are about 20 to 30 years out of date, or TV, and are about 10 years out of date. Its always been the case. I'm from Brooklyn, and used to get lots of questions on the lines of "why don't you talk funny like all other people in Brooklyn", long after all the people with that distinctive accent had moved to Long Island and New Jersey. That said, lets not get too carried away about the Bronx. The more densely populated parts of the borough, where most people live, actually are pretty ugly, with lots of tenement housing and no or very scraggly trees. Plus there are major environmental issues there. The Bronx has never been a fashionable place to live, for a reason.

kat

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:25:00 -0500

what's the "adolfo" comment supposed to mean? you guys can be such idiots. a) germany is still living down its shame over hitler, and, hey guys, not all germans were nazis! b) adolfo is italian or latino, not german. morons. and yeah, this video is really awful.

zincink

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:59:10 -0500

"it is a great place that is underrecognized" Shhhh be quiet! It is pathetic that they have to pick on the one specific area and people.. and El Che you should post one more time.. we didn't get it the first three times.

El Che

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:17:45 -0500

You f@cking American TERRORISTS do EXACTLY the same thing, except your army tells its recriuts to "shoot the ragheads" and other similar niceties. You people are SO FULL OF SHIT, it's not even funny anymore. PLUS YOU'VE GOT SOME NERVE being offended by anything, being that your country invades others, tortures people and bombs schools. You're the only assholes on the face of this earth that think you can bomb other people into democracy. Not to mention you are the MOST RASCIST ASSWIPES in the world.

El Che

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:15:44 -0500

El Che

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:09:51 -0500

aryn & jon

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:44:38 -0500

In the video, the instructor is saying shoot at African Americans, which cannot be aapologized for, nor were we condoning his comments, but the AP Video made it seem that this was an instructional video for the German army as a whole. It kind of sounded to us that Germany was a country just looking for a new minority group to target, as the comment about Adolfo seems to confirm.

DaveH

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:03:06 -0500

The Cloisters is great, but it is located in Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park.

Angry Asian

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:01:19 -0500

When I read the title I thought it said "Dumb Cop".

thanks

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:56:26 -0500

@ pone: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've lived in the Bronx for a decent amount of time now, and despite some of it's flaws, it is a great place that is underrecognized. Wait a few years and people will be fellating this place as much as Brooklyn is now.

anonymass

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:50:29 -0500

You might also mention The Cloisters in your list. A really nice trip for a spring day.

pone

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:35:18 -0500

about the bronx - it's such a beautiful boro up here. yet, way too many ignorant people who a) should know better, b) think it's funny, and c) don't know what they're talking about, like to talk up the bronx - especially all the neighborhoods in the south bronx - as if they're scary, burnt out, and fuckin' deadly - basically, as if it were still 1991 in the Bronx. it's changed a lot since Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace. it's lovely up here.

aryn & jon

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:35:01 -0500

Mithras The Prophet

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:20:40 -0500

squidfly, I was questioning whether the instructor used the polite term, not the content of the instructor's statement. aryn & jon, thank you for the clarifications. Can you further explain how this individual instructor is *not* encouraging his trainees to hurt or shoot at African-Americans? It sure seems that way. Of course it would be foolish to extrapolate from this incident to the German Army as a whole.

squidfly

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:10:26 -0500

[1] Posted by: Mithras The Prophet [2] Posted by: oracle monkey | And Slavery was a myth right posters?

aryn & jon

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:06:48 -0500

I read about this on Stern.de - a German news magazine - and I'd like to clarify that this is not The German Army encouraging its trainees to hurt or shoot at African-Americans, like the AP makes it seem. The instructor first says "three African Americans" get out of the van (Afro-Amerikaner is the German word). The insult is "Motherfucker" said in English. You can watch it on myvideo.de uncensored.

oracle monkey

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:57:35 -0500

so the point of this post is racism, right? so the sentence in the middle of the last paragraph is pretty stupid, right? you guys need to supress all random urges to become Gawker. you don't so much need a proofreader as an editor, these days. or at least editorial direction.

Mithras The Prophet

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:50:40 -0500

What were the obscenities? The stupid bleeps in the AP video prevent us from, you know, actually understanding the story. Also I'd wonder whether the instructor actually says "African-Americans", but I'd need someone who understands German to clarify that.