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.

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.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    194·
    4 hours ago

    Wow… I really don’t buy those excuses…

    They literally admit to seeing the problem before distribution, but instead of just deleting them from the email, they decide to just not include the place where it would get them into the most legal trouble instead?

    Uh… No… That’s not an accident anymore. There’s no oopsie there.

    Then they go and double down on reddit by giving the excuse that the symbol has been around way longer than it’s modern historical use, so we shouldn’t stop using it because someone corrupted it?

    No, that’s not how it works.

    Things get ruined and they take on new meanings, that includes words and symbols. You don’t just get to decide that you’re going to take back the symbol of some of the worst evil mankind has known just because it had another meaning before that and then expect everyone to be like, “Oh, alright…” It has a new meaning now. One that everyone recognizes… A meaning that it is blatantly apparent they were aware of beforehand and decided to use anyway.

    Anyone buying that bullshit excuse is an idiot.

    Fuck GoG.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      89·
      3 hours ago

      Some people still keep the old meaninga going.

      The west hates the Swastika for obvious reasons, but whenever I go to an Indian store there are swastika brand products because it still has its old meaning to Indians.

      First time I went to an Indian coworkers house I stopped dead in my tracks when I approached their door, it was a Hindu special time and they had a giant swatika on the door.

      • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 hours ago

        I’ll give you that, and the swastika and manji came to mind. I’d originally included in my post the suggestion about going and putting up swastikas and was like, “wait… That’s still a thing.”

        I get that it’s a Norse rune and I recognize the history and heritage in the same way, but in that case maybe just one ᛋ would have sufficed. However, considering someone thought enough to say, “Hey, this is going to be problem in Germany.” it would have hurt literally no one to just say, “maybe we just shouldn’t do it at all.” Deleted. Literally no controversy.

        Instead… here we are.

        • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
          13·
          1 hour ago

          I wasn’t responding to the game post, but the posters comment about symbol meanings. If you read our Congo further you’d see

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3·
            1 hour ago

            The ss lightning strike “rune” was literally invented less than a hundred years ago. It’s got fuck all to do with the hakenkreuz corruption of the swastika