Det
Outstanding Member
People with MPizzleUK usernames offend me at their lack of offension by the offensive swastikas.
REPORTED! jk.
REPORTED! jk.
I was still *****!!
Would they ban swastikas though? Considering Zombies is covered in the things?
I actually feel that a lot of the Swastika emblem bearers don't display them because they are trying to show hate towards a race, they're just doing it to try to come across as some kind of rebel, a lot of them are probably very young.
It's a very dominant symbol, a symbol of power, of war. You can understand why people use it. I would never defend the use of the symbol but it doesn't offend me like it does some.
In all honesty I feel more offended that The early learning centre have decided to remove a pig from their farmyard scenes due to them causing offence to some people- I'm not kidding.
Using a swastika as your emblem is like saying you directly import what the Nazi regime perpetrated.
I don't get offended, I just think what a sad little creature a person must be to use one. Hence, I always report. I'm doing them a favour in the long run.
If what you're trying to say in that sentence is 'support what the Nazi regime represented' then I disagree. The swastika is also religious symbol, you can't just wave that fact off with 'I call bull'. A little sweeping generalisation to say the average COD player isn't aware of this fact.
Almost as sad as reporting somebody for it dontcha think? Which, in turn, is almost as sad as commenting on a forum about it, but I'm at work killing time!
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COD would be better with those kind of people banned.
mmm... what happened to freedom of speech and expression?
I can see what you mean and I couldn't hand on heart support a blanket ban on everything.
But COD is a regulated, private environment. You pay Activision your cash, you play on Microsoft's or Sony's network then you play by their rules and avoid trying to antagonise people with casual racism.
Do you personally find it acceptable that I was called an 'N' word and told to go back to my own country by these people? (I can laugh it off because I know the kind of people who say these things, others may not)
As well as freedom of speech, inciting racial hatred is equally important. I am aware that half the kids using it won't know the severity of what the symbol can represent but that's no excuse to roll out the 'free speech' argument when there are laws in place to prevent members of society using anything that is racially inflammatory.
In terms of "freedom of speech" and using the swastika as a badge of honour then maybe the people who use it would like to save the time and get it printed on a T-Shirt to walk around their local shopping centre with (a similar private establishment). I wonder how many would savour the attention it generates without internet anonymity or would they suddenly forget about their right to 'freedom of speech'.
But this is a game, set in wartime, where the objective is to kill your opponent.
It's not Disney meets My Little Pony on Ice... it's a bloodthirsty struggle for dominance. So in my opinion all the banter that goes on, racist or not, is part of the online experience. If your sensibilities are easily offended, don't play the game.
But this is a game, set in wartime, where the objective is to kill your opponent.
It's not Disney meets My Little Pony on Ice... it's a bloodthirsty struggle for dominance. So in my opinion all the banter that goes on, racist or not, is part of the online experience. If your sensibilities are easily offended, don't play the game.
So you're basically saying, in the context of an online FPS, it's ok to call other players "N*****s".
I love this world.
The word you refer to is widely used among young black people, it's in just about every c'Rap' song, and in hundreds of movies starring young black people.
As far as I'm concerned the word has now stopped being offensive - it's only frowned upon by middle aged white men and the general media who choose to be offended because they think they ought to.
wow.
If someone get's offended by being called a 'Dumb f**king n***a' I wouldn't be so ignorant to accuse them of being easily offended.
And a 'bloodthirsty struggle for dominance'? No. This is a game. A game that was designed to be FUN. And there is nothing fun or funny about raciscm.
wow.
If someone get's offended by being called a 'Dumb f**king n***a' I wouldn't be so ignorant to accuse them of being easily offended.
And a 'bloodthirsty struggle for dominance'? No. This is a game. A game that was designed to be FUN. And there is nothing fun or funny about raciscm.
It's a game about killing, you clot, not catching flowers in your rainbow coloured hat.
Like it or not, racism is embedded in the human psyche, and has been for 2 million years. When it's used as a reason to kill millions of people it's wrong, when it's young people taking the pee out of each other in a game it's harmless, because everyone can give as good as they get.
Or can you prove otherwise?
What if I don't particularly like throwing a racial slur back and adding to the fire?
Also, just because you've heard a Kanye song on the radio doesn't mean you're suddenly ingrained in black culture enough to make the assumption that no black person finds the 'N' word offensive.
Some find it incredibly offensive and you will find a LOT will find it incredibly offensive when uttered to them by some 15 year old who is using it in a sense to imply their race makes them inferior.
Just because someone is playing a war video game doesn't mean that racism is suddenly part of the game or do I have to hammer that point some more?
This made me laugh too but I didn't want to go there! ...
It's a computer game, and as a rational human being I've never felt the need to behave towards someone in a way that I wouldn't behave in real life simply because of anonymity. Maybe if the game brings out all this bloodthirsty dominance in you, you should seek a counselor or restrict your play time.
Hammer away - personally nothing offends me more than being told what I can/cannot say/do
Continue on your crusade - you know you really might change the world!