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    Default Re: A question regarding swastikas

    Personally, I'd love to rehabilitate the swastika from the taint of Nazism and return it to what it once was, a life-affirming symbol of light. However, I don't see the need for a game to be in the forefront of that fight, and I'd rather know the EB team were doing more of their excellent creative work on the mod than wasting time fighting off law-suits, hate mail or whatever. Maybe with EB37.0 release the world may have moved on enough, but not yet. I support the developers in their decision
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    Me -being a German- thinks:

    - I would not want to confuse the historically correct with the political incorrect. In my eyes it is 2 kinds of shoes. I think all the EB members understood that...Well, most if i recall some minor intelligent posts by a tiny minority of people in the community.

    Back to topic: It may well be, that if some random person checks pictures in the web or a parent looks at the screen of little son's monitor...they may think "What the heck?". On a second look every minor intelligent person should get the idea that a half-naked, tunika-pimping and Javelin throwing freak with long hair was not your average Wehrmachts- or SS Übersoldat...in case any existed.

    - Besides that: I just outright hate the people wearing the symbol. In fact it is the only category of people i generalize in a negative way...oh, and people chatting and swimming next to each other in crowded public pools, but that's a different story.

    - Plus: I just do not like the design....so I don´t wanna/have to have it in the game....
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    Default Re: A question regarding swastikas

    Quote Originally Posted by Subedei
    Back to topic: It may well be, that if some random person checks pictures in the web or a parent looks at the screen of little son's monitor...they may think "What the heck?". On a second look every minor intelligent person should get the idea that a half-naked, tunika-pimping and Javelin throwing freak with long hair was not your average Wehrmachts- or SS Übersoldat...in case any existed.
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    The scenario Subedei described could really turn in a South-Park-esque scenario with concerned parents boycotting EB.

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    So what's wrong with free publicity ?
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    Default Re: A question regarding swastikas

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    Ban the cross too. It was on the Nazi flag.
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    Default Re: A question regarding swastikas

    Quote Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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    Ban the cross too. It was on the Nazi flag.
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    It is called balkenkreuz, not a cross <.<

    please inform youself before posting about bad nazis


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