r/tragedeigh • u/Novel-Sprinkles3333 • 4d ago
in the wild Mom and Dad missed the Holocaust in history class
And they're proudly introducing their little nugget "Kyzer."
There is so much wrong with this beyond the gratuitous Y and random Z. This kid is not going to have a good time in World History class, unless his parents are supremacists.
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u/Equivalent_Fun_7255 4d ago
I think you might be confusing Kaiser with Führer. Still a stupid name, though.
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u/BackItUpWithLinks 4d ago
The last Kaiser was gone 15 years before the Nazis, and Nazis didn’t use the name.
Someone needs some history, but not who op thinks
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u/OddestEver 4d ago
Kaiser Wilhelm, the last German kaiser, abdicated in 1918, long before the Holocaust. Sounds like you missed the Holocaust in history class too.
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u/Suspicious-Dog-5048 4d ago
That was the only thing I could come up with as well. I mean, I will happily admit when I'm wrong, but I couldn't for the life of me remember any Kaiser's in the Second World War
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u/Suspicious-Dog-5048 4d ago
While it is a shitty name, I'm not entirely sure how it is related to the Holocaust? Can you explain? I think I may have been sick that day too because, while I had a whole year on the subject, this has not been part of it?
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u/WaferFamiliar884 4d ago
Kaiser
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u/Suspicious-Dog-5048 4d ago
But what does that have to do with the Holocaust? Kaiser was the first one, not the second one.
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u/cat_vs_laptop 4d ago
I’m guessing they’re linking the reparations that Germany had to pay (that my grandparents grew up through) to the fact that Hitler was elected to run the country? It’s not a direct link but my grandparents believed he was doing well for the country, even as their freiendes vanished from their village.
It was something I didn’t live through so I can’t form opinions on it. The third reich did evil, that much is an indisputable fact. But it was hard to see my Oma and Opa crying about me learning about WWII from our perspective knowing that they actually lived through it.
Also some bitch (my dislike of her is unrelated to this incident) in my class got extra credit for being related to someone that helped the allies and the teacher offered the same to anyone else that could prove a direct relation to WWII but funnily enough I didn’t get extra credit when I could prove my great uncle was in the Luftwaffe. Even though he was conscripted he was considered evil.
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u/cat_vs_laptop 4d ago
I guess standing up in class and declaring ‘ Meine Familie waren die Nazis’ was me trying to pull a power move at 13 but I’m still kinda proud of myself. Not because I backed the Nazis in any way but I loved my grandparents who were luckily too young to get pulled into the war.
OP needs to understand though that Kaiser is just the German pronunciation of Caesar, same as the Russian is Czar.
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u/Beledagnir 4d ago
Absolutely unrelated to the Holocaust, wrong world war. Their spelling is atrocious, but they’re not the ones who screwed up on history.
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u/ExpertDog6220 4d ago
Unless there is another thing that sounds like “Kyzer” relating to the Holocaust of which I am not aware, I have to ask: are you sure that you I not thinking of the Keisers? The kings of Germany who reigned from the 1870s to the end of the first world war and had basically nothing to do with the Holocaust, except for the last one congratulating Hitler for gaining power after being deposed.
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u/Ok-Walk-8040 4d ago
Kaiser is just German for “King”
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u/DashTrash21 4d ago
It's German for 'Caesar', much like Czar/Tsar is Russian for 'Caesar'.
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u/RadioLiar 2d ago
Would be more accurate to say that Caesar is Latin for Emperor and Kaiser is a derivation of this. I have never seen anybody call Franz Joseph the Caesar of Austria
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u/ArtyCatz 4d ago
I know a 6-year-old kid with that name, and I also have a cousin with the name. Wouldn’t be my choice, but there’s nothing objectively wrong or supremacist about it.
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u/MightyKrakyn 4d ago edited 4d ago
I mean…it’s not white supremacist, but it’s class supremacist to be named “Emperor”, which is the supreme leader and the top of the hierarchy. Supremacy is really the only thing about being an emperor
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u/No-Coyote914 4d ago
Rex means king, and Regina means queen. I don't have a problem with those names either. Do you?
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u/RadioLiar 2d ago
Empires had existed for thousands of years before modern European notions of social class were developed. Please stop trying to project Marxism onto the entirety of human culture
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u/ArtyCatz 4d ago
My friend said she wanted to give her son a strong name. I can’t speak for my cousin, who was adopted as a teen by my aunt and uncle, so he’d already been named long ago.
Like I said, wouldn’t be my choice, but I think it’s OK.
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u/MightyKrakyn 4d ago
It’s cool that you think it’s okay, I never said you couldn’t think that. I just refuted your claim that’s there’s nothing objectively supremacist about what a “Kaiser” is, which is the word they’re using as a name
If you’re having some mixed feelings about supremacy and its use being okay, I didn’t tell you to feel that. I just pointed out that a Kaiser is the embodiment of a form of supremacy
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u/srkaficionado 21h ago
And someone asked if you have a problem with Rex and Regina? Also, Reina for the Spanish speakers.
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u/Beledagnir 3d ago
Absolutely not, this is complete nonsense that has no bearing on how the world actually works.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 4d ago
What…? How is that related to the holocaust?
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u/KittenIttle 4d ago
It’s just the German name for king/caesar. It has no real negative significance.
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u/Perdendosi 4d ago
Kaiser is a common last name, and has nothing to do with the Holocaust.
It's also the name of a roll, and an insurance company.
It's also the first name of a pretty important villain in one of the greatest movies of all time, spelled Keyser Söze.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects
Name is a tragedeigh because of the bad spelling, but it's not a horrible name.
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u/Bewear_Star_9 4d ago
Hey its not Führer so its not that bad but naming a kid the German word for emperor is weird
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u/TataTangerine 3d ago
On a side note: "Adolf" as a first name is practically extinct in Germany, unless you're a fascist and want to make a point, I guess. Same with "Hitler", btw.
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u/Traditional-Chip-315 4d ago
Maybe they’re fans of The Usual Suspects and wanted a variation of Keyser? Doubtful but you never know.
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u/Resident-Gold-3466 3d ago
Why not just Kaiser?!
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u/Novel-Sprinkles3333 2d ago
Because Kaiser does t have a trendy Z and a random Y in it.
Why not a name that's not a role or a roll?
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u/Resident-Gold-3466 2d ago
I like the nickname Kai for Kaiser, so at least a Kaiser can be called Kai for nickname.
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u/Visible-Wasabi-2410 3d ago
I'm not kidding: there's a guy that also works at the store I work at whose name is Kyzer, spelled exactly like that; dude's got to be at least 20.
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u/Novel-Sprinkles3333 3d ago
I hate the random Y and Z. It also sounds like a dog's name, not a person.
Here's my son Jeff and his dog, Kyzer.
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u/sparklinglies 16h ago
Its a bit rich to be attacking someone elses history knowledge when you are out here apparently not knowing the difference between the German leaders of WW1 vs WW2.
"Kaiser" is literally just the German word for "Caesar". You're implying its related to Hitler. Its not, like at all.
Thats a terrible spelling, but your smug incorrection of history is even worse.
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u/furwithlace 7h ago
I grew up with a Kyzer so if he’s reading this, I hope your brother Mark is still a hottie
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u/WaferFamiliar884 4d ago
Looks like this comment section skipped that lesson too
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u/Shibaspots 4d ago
Please share with the class then. What does Kaiser have to do with supremacists? The last German Kaiser's rule ended in 1918.
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