Crossfit Leader Causes Outrage At Holocaust Memorial
A crossfit evangelist is apologizing after he took a picture at a holocaust memorial. Some claim he did so in a disrespectful way.
Dave Driskell took the picture down and apologized.
Ana Kasparian (
The Point) and
Becca Frucht hosts of
The Young Turks discuss.
Do you believe he didn’t know it was a holocaust memorial?
Does it matter if he did or didn’t?
Let us know in the comments below.
Read more here:
http://gawker.com/crossfit-exceptionalism-finally-meets-the-holocaust-1723211355
“There are few things as funny
as crazed Crossfit evangelism. There are also few things as funny as someone doing something dumb and narcissistic at a war memorial. This weekend, the two finally and inevitably met, when famous Crossfit evangelist Dave Driskell did a handstand on top of the
Memorial to the Murdered
Jews of Europe in
Berlin.
The memorial consists of 2,711 concrete slabs of different heights. The meaning of the slabs is up for debate, but it seems to want to evoke several things. A proper cemetery, for massacred
Jews who were dumped into pits, is one obvious reading. Another is that the memorial aims to convey the feeling of a subtle but intimately disorienting chaos lurking underneath a facade of normalcy. Some people like the memorial, many others do not.
Some people walk along the corridors created by the slabs. Some people sit in the park nestled into the memorial and check their phones. Some people get drunk or sunbathe.
Others choose to do handstands, and those people probably do Crossfit.”
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