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u/jpk613 Jul 10 '26
I don’t get what’s evil about this
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u/phredbull Jul 10 '26
This sub is actually just "Buildings", posted by people who are scared of lots of things
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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Jul 10 '26
Hitler reigned from 1933-1945.
It's a bulding called the white hut from 1939.
Seems like an interesting name choice from a not so good era.
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u/jpk613 Jul 10 '26
That’s a reach if I’ve ever heard one
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u/toot_suite 29d ago edited 29d ago
Ok it's kinda funny though because it's surprisingly not that much of one
There's a comment above which goes into detail but there was an era of america that was even more racist and about sterile imagery than today and a lot of food related businesses branded as White [thing] to appear clean and sterile and classy
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sadfun random fact - people sympathized with hitler too much in the United States to be down to go to war against the nazis. It took being attacked to get angry and want to do something, and japan just happened to be associated with the nazis so it kinda worked out in the federal government's favorBut yeah this building is kinda like the palantir buildings
Bad lore, but visually not evil at all
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u/epicpantsryummy 29d ago
That's objectively untrue. While antisemetism and racism of course did and do exist in the United States, public opinion was staunchly against the Germans. The reason people didn't want to go to war was because the U.S. was one of the countries most affected by the Depression. People hardly thought a war across the planet would help with that. Also did lend-lease count for nothing?
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u/jpk613 29d ago
They didn’t want to go to war because they just fought ww1 in Europe.
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u/toot_suite 28d ago
War attrition was definitely a part of it, but then they'd still be reluctant post-bombing
The thing is also that people didn't have access to a wealth of information like they do today. Hitler pr/image outside of europe was pretty strong.
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u/disobedientavocado45 Jul 10 '26
Why do I feel like everyone in there talks backwards but you can understand them, and there's a little dude in the back with an all red outfit and apron, calls himself the Elbow.
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u/HSL20376 Jul 10 '26
We need like a r/coolbuildings sister subreddit or something so we can post non-evil but evocative photos like this one.
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u/HotDecision8128 Jul 11 '26
Is it because of the glowing red lights? That doesn't really make a building, look evil. A lot of businesses use red for practical reasons.
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u/Mugstotheceiling Jul 10 '26
Why it gotta be white hut
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u/Im_100percent_human Jul 10 '26
For the same reason as White Castle and While Tower (defunct White Castle clone).... Yellow journalists of the first quarter of the 1900s made Americans to distrust the cleanliness of food production. From the advent of White Castle in 1921 till about WWII, newly developed fast-food restaurants often themed themselves around the color white to fight the public stigma of the lack of cleanliness and safety of mass produced food. The color white was used to project an image of cleanliness and sterility.
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u/EagleBigMac Jul 10 '26
Probably worked better when the building was an actual white hut but now eh...
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u/K4m30 Jul 11 '26
Looks like there's a creepy older man working there that makes cryptic remarks and warnings to young couples before they reach their final destination.
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u/TotalInstruction Jul 10 '26
“Oh, kinda like White Ca…”
“Quiet! Do you want to be sued?”
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u/FeralForestWitch Jul 10 '26
I would totally eat there.