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Germany Lifts Ban On Swastikas In Video Games

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    1. meghan
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      achieving tolerance requires an intolerance to intolerance.

      achieving tolerance requires an intolerance to intolerance.

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      Neverland
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      As a Polish person who listened to a lot of grandma’s stories about the occupation, yeah I’m all good with the ban.

      As a Polish person who listened to a lot of grandma’s stories about the occupation, yeah I’m all good with the ban.

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        1. sam4ritan
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          ... in a video game. You could get such an exemption for history books or pieces of art already. This new rule has less to do with swastikas and more with acknowledging video games as an art form...

          you can get an exemption if they serve an historical or artistic purpose

          ... in a video game. You could get such an exemption for history books or pieces of art already. This new rule has less to do with swastikas and more with acknowledging video games as an art form rather than pure entertainment product.

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          Neverland
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          I would never have exposed my grandmother to any nazi symbolism. And she wasn’t going to expose anyone else to it. To Americans the swastika has much less visceral meaning, it’s just some lines...

          I would never have exposed my grandmother to any nazi symbolism. And she wasn’t going to expose anyone else to it. To Americans the swastika has much less visceral meaning, it’s just some lines from back in the day. In many other country it means a lot more.

          Her friend got raped, in her own home, by men wearing that symbol. Her other Jewish neighbors got dragged away and were likely murdered by people wearing that symbol.

          My grandmother would never put that disgusting symbol in front of people to entertain, or even educate them in a game. That shit symbol is just way to traumatizing and entirely unnecessary a lot of the time. I mean you can explain to people the history of Nike without having to show the the swoosh, right?

          Edit: the Nike thing is a bad example, no one associates it with murder, rape, and genocide.

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            1. Neverland
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              That’s a straw man argument, isn’t it? No one is talking about banning the term Nazi or anything like that, right? Sorry for my assumption

              Now imagine that she couldn't tell you that it was the Nazis who did this, but instead had to make up a fictional-but-similar group because it's illegal to use something that represents them (their name in this case).

              That’s a straw man argument, isn’t it? No one is talking about banning the term Nazi or anything like that, right?

              (Also, I'm not American.)

              Sorry for my assumption

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  2. tani_p
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    That kind of makes it seem like Nazism only existed in video games. Could be better to lift ban everywhere rather than selectively.

    That kind of makes it seem like Nazism only existed in video games. Could be better to lift ban everywhere rather than selectively.