Would you kill baby Hitler if you could travel back in time? Tricky question?
This is exactly what The New York Times Magazine recently asked its readers and on Friday posted the response it received on Twitter, along with asking social media users to reply to the question.
We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) pic.twitter.com/daatm12NZC
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) October 23, 2015It did not take long for #BabyHitler to start trending worldwide on the micro-blogging site.
Not everyone on Twitter agreed with the question, and the response ranges from critical to amusing to even downright hilarious.
Here is what some had to say.
@NYTmag I am interested, but do you have any non-baby-killing packages?
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 23, 2015 Am I on a long flight and is Baby Hitler crying? https://t.co/4CBOGBwQdN
— Mary Beth Williams (@embeedub) October 23, 2015 I wouldn't kill Baby Hitler, I'd just get him a like minded art teacher. #BabyHitler pic.twitter.com/mIZyE6nX0y
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) October 23, 2015 I like that the New York Times is posing the questions my sister and I asked one another when we were 5 #babyhitler https://t.co/TeI6ro1hU7
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) October 23, 2015 does this baby hitler have the mustache or nah because that's crucial
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) October 23, 2015 Was baby Hitler the inventor of peas in guacamole?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2015 Black people are exempt from the baby hitler conversation. As a rule we don’t time travel past 1987.
— Micah Singleton (@MicahSingleton) October 23, 2015 WOULD you kill baby Hitler and COULD you kill baby Hitler are two separate questions. https://t.co/6pu23iAIkp
— Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) October 23, 2015 “if the jews would have just gone back in time and killed baby hitler, they wouldn’t have had those problems.” - ben carson probably
— Jamelle Booo-eeee! (@jbouie) October 23, 2015