posted on 21.08.12
“[D]omestic abuse is disgustingly common, and this is yet another example of Hitler being tragically unextraordinary…
All the essentializing and sensationalizing of these stories is designed to make Us feel comfortable, to make Us feel like we aren’t like Those People. We want to feel fundamentally different from the people who participate in genocide, but of course, that’s not the truth, Hank. The truth, whether TV executives accept it or not, resists simplicity.”

— John Green; Hitler and Sex

posted on 17.07.12

edwardspoonhands:

Oh My! This video has EVERYTHING!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that John mentioned Tre Cool’s testicles.

Erm….sorry, testicle.

Right.

Also, as a longtime Green Day fanatic—-like seriously, ask anyone. When I was twelve, I had multiple binders filled with just Green Day stuff. I would spend hours attempting to ‘art’ them. In eighth grade, I listened to their entire discography to date. Repeatedly. Like every morning, I would pop a CD in and I would hide my earphones all day in class as I listened to everything over and over again. I’m talking tip of the iceberg here, folks.—-

I am interested that this is on the list of things that I actually did not know. More interesting though, is that I get this information from John. But whatever.

I might share this with some of my old teachers. They would always give me these horrified, disbelieving looks when I asserted that as horrible as Hitler was, he was only human.

Only.

Human.

There was no magic there. There were no demons possessing him.

He was just human.

I think that’s an important thing to remember, but a lot of people take issue with me if I try to take him off the sort of demonic pedestal they put him on.

But yeah so Tre Cool.