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.

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[+] -101 points 4 months ago (20 children)

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?

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Probably because people that still think like Nazis continue to use these symbols for sending messages of hate.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (9 children)
    1. It's a literal hate symbol.
    2. You are defending a company using Nazi imagery.
    3. There was no reason for the inclusion of the Nazi hate symbol.
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  • [+] -44 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I was asking why people cry about that, not defending it

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -28 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Here a whole 30 mins and I have already had the pleasure of encountering a fascist

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  • [+] -27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago

    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.

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