Completely unironically. The committee is HQ’d in Stockholm, ffs.
You’ll never guess which city produces the most Pulitzer Prize winners. Hint: the committee is based out of Columbia University.
redditors try not to post white supremacist content challenge (impossible)
Tbh you can repost the image on a community here to make the opposite point. I actually interpreted it that way before I realized where it was posted
Nobel prizes are definitely political bullshit at this point. For more clear reasons than this.
Member when Obama got the peace prize at the *beginning of his presidency? nuff said.
He waged something like 3 wars at the point, and 6 or 7 overall. What would one need to do to equal to that peace achievement? Bomb the nobel comittee itself?
If you reverse time, he ended all those wars. Did you think of that? Nobel prize please.
Holy shit. That’s it. They’re looking at history and going in reverse chronological order. 🤯
Fun fact, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun was awarded this in 1920 and then gave the medallion to Goebbels in 1943
During World War II, Hamsun put his support behind the German war effort. He courted and met with high-ranking Nazi officers, including Adolf Hitler. Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote a long and enthusiastic diary entry concerning a private meeting with Hamsun; according to Goebbels Hamsun’s “faith in German victory is unshakable”.
In 1940 Hamsun wrote that “the Germans are fighting for us”. After Hitler’s death, he published a short obituary in which he described him as “a warrior for mankind” and “a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations.”
After the war, he was detained by police on 14 June 1945, for treason, then committed to a hospital in Grimstad (Grimstad sykehus) “due to his advanced age”, according to Einar Kringlen (a professor and medical doctor). In 1947 he was tried in Grimstad, and fined. Norway’s supreme court reduced the fine from 575,000 to 325,000 Norwegian kroner.
The whereabouts of Hamsun’s medal remain unknown.
