It really doesn't get much more stupid than this. Bungie the video game maker has withdrawn a game accessory from sale after someone pointed out that its design vaguely evoked some of the elements of the flag of Kekistan.
Kekistan, for any normies reading, is the fictitious country created by post-Gamergate libertarians and /pol/ trolls that is now regarded as a "hate symbol" because some overfunded Jewish paranoia group thinks it is.
The item withdrawn from sale is the Road Complex AA1 gauntlet. Players can wear this as they play Destiny 2, a "first person shooter" game.
But there is a slight problem here, a fly in the ointment, a tear in the lampshade... Because Destiny 2 is itself literally a "hate game," in which players spend practically all their time trying to exterminate "Dreamer" aliens who are peacefully trying to move to Earth and make a better life for themselves.
As it says on Wikipedia:
"Players take on the role of a Guardian, protectors of Earth's last safe city as they wield a power called Light to protect the Last City from different alien races."
Basically, wearing something that refers to an ancient Egyptian frog god is considered "hate" while attempting to exterminate -- whether justly of unjustly -- intelligent alien races has nothing whatsoever to do with hate.
Really? Is that the narrative they are running with here?
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| Basically this game wants you to hate this poor creature and then kill it |
One lame criticism of the "Kekistan" flag is that it resembles one of the flags used by the Nazis, aka the Germans 1933-1945.
Yes, vaguely, but as our previous news story pointed out so does the symbol of the Norwegian Centre Party, LOL.
Not to mention several Scandinavian flags.
But even if the Kekistan flag does vaguely resemble a Third Reich flag, what is the gaming industry really setting in motion here?
What about all the video games that use imagery from other totalitarian regimes. Here are a couple of examples. There are many more.
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| Everlasting Summer promoting the extermination of the Kulaks and working political prisoners to death. |
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| World in Conflict: Soviet Assault promoting class genocide and filling fields full of human skulls. |
As everyone knows now, the Communists are the real haters, killing more than a 100 million people in the 20th century, most of them in actual peacetime.
Is Bungie really trying to say that video games and culture in general can't have anything that vaguely refers to any historical unpleasantness whatsoever? Because if that is what they are trying so say then they should come out and say it. Because I don't know how else to interpret this pointless act of petty censorship.
Is Bungie really trying to say that video games and culture in general can't have anything that vaguely refers to any historical unpleasantness whatsoever? Because if that is what they are trying so say then they should come out and say it. Because I don't know how else to interpret this pointless act of petty censorship.
