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Originally Posted by tater
Skinheads? What little I know of skinheads is that they are not all neo-nazis. I never mentioned them.
I never implied that they all belonged to neo nazi groups.
If you read what I said, I said that it would be reasonable to assume that they might be.
A sig is voluntary. The owner choses what content to put in the sig.
Not everyone with a swastika in a sig is a neo-nazi or other nazi wannabe, but SOME are. The % that are is likely higher than those that don't have the swastika sig. People like me, who don't even play the germans in games, have a virtually zero chance of being neo-nazis. I play a lot of ww2 games online, and while the % of wannabe nazis or nazi hero-worshippers is small, it is not vanishingly small, and those who exclusively play them are the vast majority of such types. I've seen them for years in flight sims and ww2ol in game, in game forums, and OT forums. I have friends who play germans exclusively (fw-190 drivers, etc) who are clearly not, but they don't have swastikas forming anything more than a RL marking as part of the plane (tail in the case of LW).
Anyway, it creates the impression that you might be. Better, IMO, to "avoid the appearance of impropriety," as they say in the political world.
There are loads of people to hang out with in this world, and I'll not waste time with guys that see fit to add swastikas to sig files when the u-boat in the picture is fine without the additional image (I'm fine with it as a marking on the boat/plane/whatever, I'm only talking about adding them in a montage).
It's anyone's right to make what they want, but they shouldn't be surprised if they are judged by their CHOICE of symbology.
tater
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You state you never implied, but in the same breath said we should assume they are...Why would you assume what someones character inside of a game is, when the object that offends is a historic part of that same game.
Inside a game people should be able to immerse themselves as long as they follow the rules and other than that people should butt out because you can't judge the motives of someone through a computer screen that has historical elements that were once offensive.