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Canadian Star Legion/Canadian Star EmpireFalk wrote:I thought Major Natalya is in the CSE now
Are you sure? I think the Space Nazis and the TTSJs were at war, years ago.Tzan wrote:Of course staying away from a full on Piltogg faction that murders Jews is totally sensible.
But we never had that anyway.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
If two player owned factions were having fun fighting thats ok.stubby wrote:Are you sure? I think the Space Nazis and the TTSJs were at war, years ago.Tzan wrote:Of course staying away from a full on Piltogg faction that murders Jews is totally sensible.
But we never had that anyway.
For me this is mostly about quietly retiring some of the more deliberately provocative art pieces. Like maybe hey lynching jokes aren't actually that funny
I've found a new nickname for my penis now.Tzan wrote:the low hanging OTC.
TheCraigfulOne wrote:I've found a new nickname for my penis now.Tzan wrote:the low hanging OTC.
So portrayals of genocide against them are ok! It's not racist because they're white!Natalya wrote:I mean, the peaches are supposed to be white people.
Empire of Luchardsko WIP wiki pageBrikWars 2010 Rules wrote:BrikWars ... stands in pretty direct opposition to many fundamental elements of the LEGO® philosophy, such as "Not Teaching Kids How Funny It Is to Set People on Fire."
ExactlyFalk wrote:We should hate the IM because they're magic, not because they're peaches, am I right?
Kind of it is. Yellows are genocidal maniacs with all the power. Peaches pose no actual threat to them. Peaches, on the other hand, are pretty consistently the innocent helpless victims who will be wiped out if they do nothing. Peaches fight yellows because they have no other option, while yellows genocide peaches and everyone else just for fun.Craigallot wrote:Equating people to Nazis and calling them hypocrites for having factions that kill peaches for being peaches is just silly. The whole idea that a faction represents the owner's ideas is silly, especially considering most people have several factions that are polar opposites. Also, the way it's always been portrayed is that the Peaches want to kill the Yellows for being Yellows just as bad. It's not a case of one racist group bullying their innocent, helpless victims.
Ehh. I don't know, maybe it's different in Belgium, but lynching references touch a pretty strong and still very active nerve over here in the U.S. I'm old enough to remember lynchings as a common threat, although by my teenage years it was about sexual identity more often than race; and even now while they're not as much of a present literal threat they're still (in the U.S.) a powerful symbol of the white nationalist hate that definitely is a present literal threat. That's a lot of people's traumatic current experience to trivialize as a throwaway joke. Same reason we've got to be careful about snuggle jokes etc.Craigallot wrote:The artwork stubby posted is hilarious. That it's showing peaches being hanged doesn't mean it glorifies it, it's just showing the senseless violent nature of minifigs in Brikwars.
It's a choice though, right? I can depict a hundred million different things that aren't okay. Some of them are active sources of trauma for the people reading, some of them will be taken as encouragement to go out into the world and traumatize others, some of them will poke fun at people who deserve it, some of them will help kick people who are already down. It's not a neutral choice. Different targets have different effects, and I just think we should be mindful about that when we're deciding where we put our focus and efforts.Craigallot wrote:If you're gonna worry about whether it's 'ok', then you might as well delete all of Brikwars. Racism isn't ok. Neither is violence, or war, whether racist inspired or not. Does that mean it can never be depicted? I don't think so. Since it's LEGO, it's hardly graphical or shocking.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?