Well that’s a headline I never thought I’ll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some… interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.
Why people cry so much about something like this? Yes, the Nazi’s did something horrible and I’m not here to tell the contrary, but why in the hell using those simbols offend so much?
Because Nazi dog whistles are a problem. Nazism didn’t end in 1945.
Probably because people that still think like Nazis continue to use these symbols for sending messages of hate.
We don’t think it; we know it.
I think you didn’t parse that comment right.
I was asking why people cry about that, not defending it
You can disapprove of something and not “cry” about it. Do you cry every time you dislike something?
You are asking why people having a problem with nazi symbols being used in a time when we literally have neo nazis gaining power and you are doing it in a way that intimates having a problem with nazi symbols being used is mockworthy.
I know right? It was just an innocent nod to Nazis.
I can’t even heil myself in public anymore, people are just so sensitive and overly political.
I guess I touched a nerve with that question? I guess that I should open a PR to Lemmy so they can ban people who type (or even ask) about those scary symbols?
Yes, Hitler was so devastated he shot himself in the head.
You honestly seem more bothered by the offense people take, however much you try to pass it off as surprise. Clearly you feel threatened by criticism of nazis so what’s that about?
They can’t help but self report
Try reading a book instead of asking strangers online if you actually care to learn something (I get the feeling that you do not)
Here a whole 30 mins and I have already had the pleasure of encountering a fascist
That’s exactly what I mean with people that cry about everything, I just ask and then they put words in your mouth that you never said
Who is crying?
Thank you for helping me pop my Lemmy block user cherry. You made it easy to give in.
Yup, it’s that classic fake outrage bullshit that permeates the cringiest corners of social media. They need to indulge in these performative contests to signal “superior” virtue over logical moderates who cooly observe that symbols on a screen are not intrinsically hateful & are objectively incapable of harm. People acting & realizing shitty ideologies are capable of harm. Stopping them is the furthest thing from denouncing a symbol.
They’re “fighting fascism” they claim. Are they, though? If objecting over symbols “stopped fascists”, no one’s ever seen it.
They’re claiming these symbols send messages of hate. What’s the “message of hate” here? These sun-related symbols (fitting the game’s sun & rune theme) are vague.
They’re stroking their justice boners over some unearned sense of accomplishment that they “fought the good fight”. Denouncing symbols is the least meaningful opposition or rational discourse: it doesn’t challenge shitty ideas or their adherents. It does absolutely nothing.
Irrational losers, however, don’t like critical thought. Discrediting their bullshit sense of superiority & accomplishment (at doing nothing meaningful despite feeling like they are) offends them.
Shut up Elon. Nazis always deserve a beating.