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WHO SAID FASCISTS WHERE NARSON COULD SEE
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@Narson may not remember, but we have bonded before about Umberto Eco on MSB.
Except I wasn’t sure if we were bonding or if I was being made fun of because this is the internet and idk them.
Everyone is sus.
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There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;
There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.
As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
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@Kestrel don’t worry, there is 0% chance of Narson making fun of someone for talking about fascism.
as previously stated, good day.
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As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
This, but in Danish folklore and history nerd.
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There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;
There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.
As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
You get it on a lot of things - I have reported a lot of stuff on steam that I’ve just casually come across on games like Humans Fall Flat etc. I have a whole list of ‘Why the things we like are also Nazis’. It might be why I’m not allowed at parties.
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@Aria Oh look, 4 of the 5 things you listed are 4 of my own interests, and my history specialization is modern European (really WW2). This is very familiar to me.
Formerly known as Seraphim73 (he/him)
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oh god oh shit there are two of them
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There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;
There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.
As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
Seconded. I’m a white dude and it’s sometimes really anxiety inducing to talk about those kinds of interests without feeling like, “guys I swear I just like the stories, I’m not a white supremacist”. Double whammy because I also like power metal.
At least a lot of them usually don’t take long to go mask-off. I remember people using SS designs in medieval games like Mordhau or Chivalry. No it’s not a pair of lightning bolts, I know what you are.
Ask me about professional wrestling.
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@Roadspike said in Bannings:
@Aria Oh look, 4 of the 5 things you listed are 4 of my own interests, and my history specialization is modern European (really WW2). This is very familiar to me.
We, uh, occasionally get Questions about that entire bookshelf full of books about WWII tactics and philosophy.
By philosophy I mean Himmleresque bullshit.
Any pronouns. Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. http://keys.aresmush.com
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@Dreampipe said in Bannings:
There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;
There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.
As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.
Seconded. I’m a white dude and it’s sometimes really anxiety inducing to talk about those kinds of interests without feeling like, “guys I swear I just like the stories, I’m not a white supremacist”. Double whammy because I also like power metal.
At least a lot of them usually don’t take long to go mask-off. I remember people using SS designs in medieval games like Mordhau or Chivalry. No it’s not a pair of lightning bolts, I know what you are.
Look, I can’t lie. I would use a pair of lightning bolts because I think lightning bolts look cool.
AND THEN I WOULD BE FUCKING MORTIFIED WHEN SOMEONE TOLD ME.
Pour one out for everyone born in 1988 who is innocently making very poor choices about their usernames.
she/they
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It’s for this very specific reason that I don’t grow my beard out to an extreme length. I already have the tall, bearded white guy that shaves his head down. I don’t have any desire to be confused with someone else.
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Pour one out for everyone born in 1988 who is innocently making very poor choices about their usernames.
I told someone who had an ares tag like that. I couldn’t decide whether to say anything but I decided that I would sure want to know. She was, of course, horrified.
Fucking nazis, ruin everything.
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@L-B-Heuschkel said in Bannings:
The problematic conversation usually goes like this, in my experience.
“I’m uh, y’know, really into WW2 history. Anyway, here’s my thesis on how Hitler could’ve won–”
“Oh okay, what about the other theatres?”
“What?”
Ask me about professional wrestling.
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@Dreampipe I think the most embarrassing and yet hilarious situation I’ve seen was the friend with a German husband – she came over to visit and took husband along and he came into the living room and then he just turned around to leave.
We did manage to point out that no, we’re not exactly supporters of that stuff, we’re history nerds.
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@Dreampipe If it makes you feel any better, I once had to have a very awkward conversation with a friend of mine who has blonde hair, blue eyes, and majored in German about why getting a German eagle tattoo would be a REALLY BAD IDEA.
He is incredibly sweet, super progressive, and just a great big nerd that wanted to celebrate a thing he was excited about from history! And his family! And his time living there! And all the castles he saw while stationed overseas!
But I really just had to be like, “Honey. Baby. Sweetheart. No. Noooooooooooo. NO. You are the Aryan poster boy and no matter what you think that tattoo is about, everybody’s gonna take one look at you…”
(To his credit, this was about a decade ago when neo-Nazis were definitely a thing, but not nearly as open and as public as they are now. So I can see how in his innocent, privileged obliviousness, it honestly might not occur to him that people would take it that way.)
