Cenk Uygur
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Crossfit Leader Causes Outrage At Holocaust Memorial
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August 12, 2015
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5:10Now PlayingA 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.
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“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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