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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2020-06-19 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] ckd 2020-06-20 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I've changed my Facebook profile photo to a bust of Sophie Scholl, with a white rose placed on the shelf below; this goes with my cover photo, a picture of the pavement monument to the White Rose outside the university building where she was arrested. I figure if the Trump campaign is going to use symbols from their 1940s German heroes, I will use symbols from mine[1].

(Note that there were reportedly 88 versions of the ad, and the first sentence of the ad text has 14 words. This is very unlikely to be an accident.)

[1] In the Before Times I regularly visited Munich 1-2x per year for work, and I had another trip planned for August. On each of the past several trips I have set time aside to go to the LMU campus to remember Hans and Sophie Scholl, Kurt Huber, and the other members of the White Rose.